In 1996, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Performer in a Children’s Special for The Royale, in which she voiced the character Mildred Wak. She reprised the voice role in 2000’s direct-to-video sequel and in a pair of Mickey specials, Mickeys Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse and Mickey’s House of Villain, as well as in the Kingdom Hearts video game series. In 1989, Carroll portrayed the sea witch Ursula in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, singing “Poor Unfortunate Souls.” She called the role one of her favorites. In 1965 she costarred as “Prunella,” one of the wicked stepsisters in the 1965 production of the musical version of Cinderella. She appeared in my shows in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, including shows headlined by Steve Allen, Red Buttons, Danny Kaye, Red Skelton, and Carol Burnett. She graduated from Immaculate Heart High School and then attended the Catholic University of America after enlisting in the US Army.Ī frequent film actress and television guest star and series regular starting in the late 1940s, her work was seen on the Jimmy Durante Show, The Danny Thomas Show, Laverne & Shirley, ER, and many other shows, and voiced several cartoon series like Pound Puppies, Galaxy High School, Foofur and Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was five, and she soon began acting in local productions. Patricia Ann Carroll was born May 5, 1927, in Shreveport, Louisiana. We ask that you honor her by having a raucous laugh at absolutely anything today (and every day forward) because, besides her brilliant talent and love, she leaves my sister Kerry and me with the greatest gift of all, imbuing us with humor and the ability to laugh… even in the saddest of times.” Tara Karsian, her daughter, announced on her Facebook page “ It is with a heavy heart that I write that my mother, Pat Carroll, has passed away at the grand old age of 95. Pat Carroll, a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning actress, best known as the voice of Ursula from The Little Mermaid, has died at 95.

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