1. Patricia Ann Carroll was an American actress and comedian.
19 Facts About Pat Carroll
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Pat Carroll is best known for providing the voice of Ursula in The Little Mermaid.
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Pat Carroll's family moved to Los Angeles when she was five years old, and she soon began acting in local productions.
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Pat Carroll graduated from Immaculate Heart High School and attended Catholic University of America after enlisting in the United States Army as a civilian actress technician.
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Pat Carroll got her first acting credit as Lorelei Crawford in the 1948 film Hometown Girl.
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In 1956, Pat Carroll won an Emmy Award for her work on Caesar's Hour.
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Pat Carroll co-starred in the 1965 television production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella as "Prunella", one of the wicked stepsisters.
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Pat Carroll appeared on many variety shows of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, such as The Steve Allen Show, The Danny Kaye Show, The Red Skelton Show, and The Carol Burnett Show.
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Pat Carroll portrayed Pearl Markowitz, the mother of Adam Arkin's character Lenny Markowitz, in the 1977 CBS situation comedy Busting Loose.
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Pat Carroll voiced the character of Granny in the 2005 re-release of Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro.
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In 1989, Pat Carroll portrayed the sea witch Ursula in Disney's The Little Mermaid and sang "Poor Unfortunate Souls".
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In interviews, Pat Carroll referred to the role, her first as a villain, as one of the favorites of her career.
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Pat Carroll later reprised the role in other forms of media, including the Kingdom Hearts series of video games, the Little Mermaid television series, the Disney+ series The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse, and various Disney theme parks attractions and shows, as well as voicing Ursula's crazy sister Morgana in the direct-to-video sequel The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea.
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Pat Carroll appeared on a variety of game shows including You Don't Say, To Tell the Truth, Match Game 73, Password All-Stars, I've Got a Secret, and The $10,000 Pyramid.
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Pat Carroll married Lee Karsian in 1955 and they had three children, including actress Tara Karsian.
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In 1991, Pat Carroll received an honorary doctorate from Siena College in Albany, New York.
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In 1963, Pat Carroll filed a $12,000 lawsuit against Hanna-Barbera for breach of contract, claiming that she had been cast and signed on to the role of Jane Jetson on The Jetsons.
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Pat Carroll stated in an interview in 2013 that the court had ruled in favor of Hanna-Barbera.
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Pat Carroll died of pneumonia at her home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on July 30,2022, at the age of 95.