Janet Carroll
Janet Carroll ( born December 24, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois; † 22, 2012 in New York City, New York ) was an American actress, musical actress and singer.
Life
Education and Theatre
Janet Carroll was born as Janet Thiese as the daughter of George Nicholas Thiese and Hilda Catherine Thiese (nee Patton ). Carroll received professional vocal training since the age of 12 with Dr. Greta Allum in Chicago. Later ( 1972 ) she took singing lessons with other Douglas Susu - Mago and trained as a soprano.
After graduating from high school and her acting training, which she completed in her hometown of Chicago, she began her career as an actress. They first appeared at the Kansas City Starlight Theatre and at several Chicago theaters, mainly as a musical actress. She played leading roles in the musicals Mame among others, Hello, Dolly!, Guys and Dolls, South Pacific, The Pajama Game, Carousel and Gypsy. In 1972, she joined the Arlington Park Theatre in Arlington, Illinois, as a nurse Ratched in the play One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman.
In the 1980s, Carroll was doing theater in Los Angeles. She stepped in Lady Windermere's Fan on (on the side of John Lithgow and Lynn Redgrave ), in the play A Couple of White Chicks by John Ford Noonan (1988, with Cloris Leachman as a partner ) and as Clytemnestra in the play Electra by Ezra Pound. For her performance as Clytemnestra, she won the Los Angeles Drama Logue Critics' Award in the category " Best Actress ".
In 2005, she appeared on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre in the world premiere of the musical Little Women on; there they took over on the side of Sutton Foster and Maureen McGovern roles Aunt March and Mrs. Kirk. In May 2007 they played in New York City in the revival of the musical Irene Joseph McCarthy and Harry Tierney the role of Mrs. O'Dare / Marshall production in the Musicalkompagnie Musicals Tonight!. In New York Theatre Musical Festival she sang in the September / October 2007 at the Theatre At St. Clement's the role of the grandmother ( Granny ) in the musical The Last Starfighter.
Film and Television
Carroll starred in numerous films and television series.
Your cinema debut was in 1983 as Joel's mother in the film comedy Risky Business. She embodied the still quite youthful, well-off, living in a suburban American mother who after returning from vacation has no idea that her son Joel, played by Tom Cruise, now converted the family home in her absence in a lucrative brothel. On Mothers roles Carroll was often defined later in the movies. She played among others Barbara Holmes, the mother of the pretty boy Ben Holmes ( Ben Affleck ) in the comedy Forces of Nature (1999) and the role of Mrs. Hiller, mother of Bill Campbell, in the film comedy Enough - Everyone has a limit (2002).
In 1989, she played under the direction of Sidney Lumet in Crime Comedy Family Business the role of the waitress Margie; on the side of Sean Connery she was his girlfriend. In 2001, she starred in the U.S. film drama All You Need the role of Jane Sabistan, a person suffering from an uncontrollable, debilitating disease wife and mother. In the comedy Changing Hearts (2002) took it over to the side of Lauren Holly, Tom Skerritt, Ian Somerhalder and Faye Dunaway, the role of Mrs. Lane. She starred in this film, the chairman of the Baptist Women's League and generous benefactor and supporter of a hospital. Graceful authority figures were in the last years of her film career, Judge Dunbar in the film drama The Marriage Undone (2002), the Mother Superior in the thriller Confession (2002, alongside Chris Pine ) and the powerful Secretary General of the United Nations in the action film and Thriller The Art of War III: retribution ( 2009).
Carroll took over continuous series roles in the U.S. television series The Bronx Zoo, Murphy Brown (as Doris Dial, stoic wife of Anchor Mans Jim Dial ) Married with Children ( as owner of the shoe shop Gary 's Shoes and Al's boss Gary ), Melrose Place (as Marian show, mother of Dr. Kimberly Shaw figurines ) and Still Standing (as Helen Michaels, mother of Judy and Linda ).
She also had numerous episode roles and guest roles in several American television series, including Knight Rider ( 1983), Cagney & Lacey (1985 ), The Twilight Zone (1986 ), Golden Girls (1987) 21 Jump Street - Tatort classroom ( 1988), LA Law - Star lawyers, tricks, processes (1988 ), Back to the Past (1989 ), Glory Days (1990, as Mrs. Lovejoy, mother of Brad Pitt), Matlock (1995), Pacific Blue - the beach police ( 1996), A heavenly family (1999), Beverly Hills, 90210 (1999), Ally McBeal (2002 ) Scrubs - (2006 ) Brothers & Sisters (2006) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2010).
Singer
Besides her work as an actress and musical singer Carroll worked since 1982 as a singer. She interpreted Jazz, Blues, Dixieland, Swing and traditionals. She has performed at various jazz festivals in the United States and Canada, including at the Victoria Festical and the Vancouver Festival in British Columbia, at the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Los Angeles Classic Festival and at festivals in Newport Beach, Catalina Iceland and New Orleans. As jazz singer Carroll published a total of five solo CDs, including Presenting ... Janet Carroll and the Hollywood Jazz Cats (1992 ), I Can not Give You Anything But Love (2000 ) I'll Be Seeing You (2000 ) and most recently Lady Be Good ( Arbors Records, 2010), including with James Chirillo, Harry Allen, Warren Vache and Tony Tedesco as a sideman.
Carroll was a soprano member of the choir of Canterbury Choral Society in New York. She worked there as a first soprano in numerous classical concerts, including works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák, Haydn and Gustav Mahler; she sang, among others, conducted by Leonard Bernstein. In November 2007, she performed with the Canterbury Choral Society in New York's Carnegie Hall in performances of Mahler's 8th Symphony, the Symphony of a Thousand, on.
Religious commitment
In June 1988, Carroll was ordained in Los Angeles in the West Los Angeles ' Church of Inner Light as a pastor ( Ordained Minister ) of the community of faith Church of Inner Light. In this capacity she held for their faith community baptisms, weddings, memorial services and funerals.
Private
Carroll had two sons, Thomas ( †) and George Eric. She died at the age of 71 from a brain tumor at her home in Manhattan on Riverside Drive.