Carole Lesley
Age: N/A | From: Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK
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Aliases: Maureen Lesley Carole Rippingale , Maureen Rippingale
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 5
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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 several 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.
Most Famous Work
Woman in a Dressing Gown
(1957) Hilda Harper
The Silver Darlings
(1947) Una (child)
The Embezzler
(1954) Tea Shop Waitress
No Trees in the Street
(1959) Lova
These Dangerous Years
(1957) Dinah BrownActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Wendy | |
| 1961 | Charlotte 'Charlie' Pinner | |
| Susan | ||
| 1960 | Kitten Strudwick | |
| 1959 | Pvt. Marge White | |
| Lova | ||
| 1957 | Dinah Brown | |
| Hilda Harper | ||
| Film Star (as Leslie Carroll) | ||
| 1954 | Tea Shop Waitress | |
| 1949 | Clare as a child | |
| 1947 | Una (child) | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
