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Carole Shelley
16 August 1939
Carole Shelley played in 6 movies in the Comedy, Romance, Music, Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy genres.
Carole Shelley got succeed with average imdb rating 5.8.
Naturalized U.S. citizen.
Won Broadway's 1979 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for "The Elephant Man" in a tie with Constance Cummings for "Wings." Miss Shelley was present to receive her award and dedicated it to the memory of her recently departed mother whom she called "Charlie." She was also nominated for Tony Awards on two other occasions: in 1975 as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for "Absurd Person Singular," and in 1987 as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Stepping Out."
... Replaced Elaine Stritch in the Broadway run of "Show Boat"
Replaced Dana Ivey in The Last Night of Ballyhoo
The only actress to play the role of Neil Simon's Gwendolyn Pigeon in The Odd Couple on Broadway, in The Odd Couple (1968) film, and "The Odd Couple" (1970) television series.
In 1979 she originated the role of Mrs. Kendall in The Elephant Man, winning a Tony Award for best actress. In 2002, Kate Burton played Mrs. Kendall in the first revival of the play on Broadway, garnering a Tony nomination (one of two nominations she received that year, the other for Hedda Gabler). These two distinguished actresses have worked on film and in television but in New York they are revered as two of the greatest actresses working on stage today. In 1995 these two ladies shared the same dressing room at the Union Square Theater, where they played mother and daughter in Neil Simon's London Suite.
She was nominated for a 1974 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actress in a Principal for her performance in "A Doll's House" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
Nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance for a Featured Actress in a Musical for "Billy Elliot - The Musical".
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