Biographies: Carol White - Actor

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A British actress who was born in Hammersmith, London, England, United Kingdom, as Carole Joan White. She won Best Actress at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1968 and was nominated for the 1968 Golden Laurel Award for Female New Face. She married three times and had two children. Her most important works include Some Call It Loving (1973), Poor Cow (1967), and The Wednesday Play (1965-1966). She suffered from drug abuse, alcoholism, shoplifting, and relationship problems, which resulted in her several suicide attempts. 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. 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). Addiction to drugs and alcohol damaged her career, and she worked infrequently from the early 1970s. She traveled to America in 1968 and made several films before returning to Britain to work at West End theaters in London. She later went back to the USA and died in Miami, Florida, USA on September 16, 1991 from complications of liver disease.

• 22 November 2021
• Christina Aziz