Pat Carroll was a comedian and actor from the United States. She was best known for her role as Ursula in The Little Mermaid, but she also had a long acting career, appearing in CBS’s The Danny Thomas Show, ABC’s Laverne & Shirley, NBC’s ER, and other guest-starring and series-regular roles on American television, as well as voice-acting across many cartoon series. Carroll won an Emmy, a Drama Desk Award, a Grammy Award, and was nominated for a Tony Award.

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Carroll was born on May 5, 1927, in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Maurice Clifton Carroll and Kathryn Angela. Pat was five years old when her family relocated to Los Angeles, and she soon began appearing in local shows. She attended Catholic University of America after graduating from Immaculate Heart High School and joining the United States Army as a civilian acting technician.

Age, family, children and net worth

Carroll married Lee Karsian in 1955, and the couple had three children, one of them was actor Tara Karsian. In 1976, the marriage concluded in divorce. Carroll was granted an honorary doctorate from Siena College in Albany, New York, in 1991. Carroll, a devout Roman Catholic, stated that her religious beliefs aided her in deciding which projects to accept. She had been a Republican her entire life.

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Carroll died of pneumonia on July 30, 2022, at the age of 95, at her home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Surviving family members include the actor’s daughters Kerry Karsian and Tara Karsian, as well as his granddaughter Evan Karsian-McCormick.

At the time of death, Pat Carroll’s net worth was estimated to be $1.5 million by Wikipedia, Forbes, and Business Insider.

Carroll has performed a great deal of voice-over work on animated shows like A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Galaxy High, Foofur, and A Goofy Movie since the late 1980s. She played Katrina Stoneheart on Pound Puppies.

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She played Jon’s fiery Grandmother in two Garfield television specials (A Garfield Christmas and Garfield’s Thanksgiving).

She also featured as Granny in Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro, which was re-released in 2005.

Carroll sang Poor Unfortunate Souls while playing the sea witch Ursula in Disney’s The Little Mermaid in 1989.