Carole Lesley
Birthday
1935/05/27
Day of death
1974/02/28 (38 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Chelmsford, Essex, England
Also know as
Maureen Lesley Carole Rippingale
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...Read more
Acting
(1961) What a Whopper
as Charlotte 'Charlie' Pinner
(1959) Operation Bullshine
as Pvt. Marge White
(1957) These Dangerous Years
as Dinah Brown
(1957) Woman in a Dressing Gown
as Hilda Harper
(1962) The Pot Carriers
as Wendy
(1961) Three on a Spree
as Susan
(1954) The Embezzler
as Tea Shop Waitress
(1960) Doctor in Love
as Kitten Strudwick
(1957) The Good Companions
as Film Star (as Leslie Carroll)
(1959) No Trees in the Street
as Lova
(1949) Trottie True
as Clare as a child
(1947) The Silver Darlings
as Una (child)