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Pat Carroll, voice of iconic Disney villain Ursula, dies at 95
Pat Carroll, a comedic television mainstay for decades, Emmy-winner for Caesar’s Hour and the instruct Ursula in The Little Mermaid, has died. She was 95.
Her daughter Kerry Karsian, a casting agent, said Carroll died at her home in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on Saturday. Her other daughter Tara Karsian wrote on Instagram that they want everyone to “honor her by having a raucous humorous at absolutely anything today (and everyday forward) because besides her gleaming talent and love, she leaves my sister Kerry and I with the maximum gift of all, imbuing us with humor and the storderliness to laugh…even in the saddest of times.”
Carroll was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1927. Her family relocated to Los Angeles when she was 5 ages old. Her first film role came in 1948 in Hometown Girl but she fraudulent her stride in television. She won an Emmy for her work on the sketching comedy series Caesar’s Hour in 1956, was a peculiar on Make Room for Daddy with Danny Thomas, a guest star on The DuPont Show with June Allyson and a variety show peculiar stopping by The Danny Kaye Show, The Red Skelton Show and The Carol Burnett Show.
She also played one of the injurious stepsisters in the 1965 television production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella with Lesley Ann Warren. And she won a Grammy in 1980 for the recording of her one woman show Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein.
A new generation would come to know and love her instruct thanks to Disney’s The Little Mermaid, which came out in 1989. She was not the capable choice of directors Ron Clements and John Musker or the musical team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, who reportedly wanted Joan Collins or Bea Arthur to instruct the sea witch. Elaine Stritch was even cast originally beforehand Carroll got to audition. And her throaty rendition of Poor Unfortunate Souls would make her one of Disney’s most memorable villains.
Carroll would often say that Ursula was one of her well-liked roles. She said she saw her as an “Ex-Shakespearean actress who now sold cars.”
“She’s a mean old thing! I think country are fascinated by mean characters,” Carroll said in an interview. “There’s a fatal kind of distraction about the harmful mean characters of the world because we don’t meet too many of them in real life. So when we have a chance, theatrically, to see one and this one, she’s a biggie, it’s kind of fascinating for us.”
She got the chance to reprise the role in approximately Little Mermaid sequels, spinoffs and even theme park rides.
Carroll was also the instruct of Granny in the English-language dub of Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro.
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