Biographies: Carol White - Actor

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British actress who was born in Hammersmith, London, England, United Kingdom on April 1, 1943 as Carole Joan White and died in Miami, Florida, USA on September 16, 1991 from complications of liver disease. She won Best Actress at the Carlo Vivari International Festival in 1968 and was nominated for the 1968 Golden Laurel Award for Best New Actress. She married three times and got two children. Her most important works are Some Call It Loving (1973), Poor Cow (1967), and The Wednesday Pley (1965-1966). She was a British actress who worked on theatre, film, and television. She succumbed to drug abuse, alcoholism, shoplifting, and relationship problems, which resulted in her several suicide attempts. She was born to a scrap metal dealer, and she started acting at the age of 6 as a child in the movie Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). She studied acting at the Corona Stage Academy, and her first film was Linda (1960). She played minor roles in films from 1949 until the late 1950s, and then she began playing more important supporting roles in films such as Carry On Teacher (1959). Drugs and alcohol addiction damaged her career since the 1970s. She traveled to America in 1968 and made several films before returning to Britain again to work at the West End Theater in London.

• 22 November 2021
• Christina Aziz