Patricia Ann Carroll was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on May 5, 1927. When she was five years old, her family relocated to Los Angeles, where she began appearing in local shows. She attended the Catholic University of America after graduating from Immaculate Heart High School and enlisted in the United States Army.

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Beginning in the late 1940s, she was a frequent film actress and television guest star, and series regular, appearing on the Jimmy Durante Show, The Danny Thomas Show, Laverne & Shirley, ER, and many more shows. She performed Ursula in The Little Mermaid and other animated characters.

Carroll began her acting career in 1947 with the film Hometown Girl. Carroll earned an Emmy Award for her role in Sid Caesar’s House in 1956, and from 1961 to 1964, she was a regular on the sitcom Make Room for Daddy.

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She also appeared on a number of variety shows during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, including those hosted by Steve Allen, Red Buttons, Danny Kaye, Red Skelton, and Carol Burnett. In the 1965 staging of the musical version of Cinderella, she costarred as “Prunella,” one of the wicked stepsisters.

Carroll’s one-woman show about Gertrude Stein earned multiple theatre prizes, and the recorded version was nominated for a Grammy in 1980 for Best Spoken Word, Documentary, or Drama.

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Carroll was cast as Lily, Shirley Feeney’s mother, in the installment Mother Knows Worst of the hit ABC sitcom Laverne & Shiley in early 1976. She also appeared in the CBS sitcom Busting Loose, The Ted Knight Show, and She’s The Sheriff, which was televised.

Carroll sang Poor Unfortunate Souls as the sea witch Ursula in Disney’s The Little Mermaid in 1989. She referred to the character as one of her favourites, and she revisited it in several different media projects.

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On July 30, she died at her home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, while recovering from pnuemonia.

Daughters Kerry Karsian, Tara Karsian, and grand-daughter Evan Karsian-McCormick are family members who survive the actor.