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Carole Lesley

Carole Lesley

Known For Acting
Birthday May 27, 1935
Died Feb 28, 1974 (38)
Birthplace Chelmsford, Essex, England
Popularity 0.1 (history)
Updated Dec 19, 2024
Entry Date Apr 26, 2024
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Biography

Maureen Rippingale (27 May 1935, in Chelmsford – 28 February 1974, in New Barnet), known professionally as Carole Lesley, was a British actress who had a short but significant career as a "blonde bombshell". Lesley ran away from home at the age of 16, "aiming to become a star". She starred in seve ... ral films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the 1957 film Woman in a Dressing Gown, which won the 1958 Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film. She also appeared in Doctor in Love, Operation Bullshine and What a Whopper, and played Helen of Troy in a television play. However Associated decided to end her contract, which devastated her and she disappeared from the public eye. She subsequently lived in a semi-detached house overlooking New Barnet Railway Station, but by 1973 was felt by some to be "a deeply depressed, once beautiful woman, still haunted by a glamorous past". She died of a drug overdose.

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The Pot Carriers

The Pot Carriers

1962

as Wendy

Three on a Spree

Three on a Spree

1961

as Susan

What a Whopper

What a Whopper

1961

as Charlotte 'Charlie' Pinner

Doctor in Love

Doctor in Love

1960

as Kitten Strudwick

Operation Bullshine

Operation Bullshine

1959

as Pvt. Marge White

No Trees in the Street

No Trees in the Street

1959

as Lova

These Dangerous Years

These Dangerous Years

1957

as Dinah Brown

Woman in a Dressing Gown

Woman in a Dressing Gown

1957

as Hilda Harper

The Good Companions

The Good Companions

1957

as Film Star (as Leslie Carroll)

The Embezzler

The Embezzler

1954

as Tea Shop Waitress

Trottie True

Trottie True

1949

as Clare as a child

The Silver Darlings

The Silver Darlings

1947

as Una (child)

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