Victoria Carroll
| Victoria Carroll | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Mary Carol Lee Ford January 21, 1941 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Victoria Carrol-Bell |
| Occupation | Actress, voice actress, artist |
| Years active | 1964–present |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Bell (m. 1984) |
| Children | Ashley Bell |
Victoria Carroll (or Victoria Carrol-Bell; born Mary Carol Lee Ford on January 21, 1941) is an American film, stage and television actress, voice actress and artist.
Born Mary Carol Lee Ford on January 21, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, the third child of Oscar Ford, a vaudeville actor turned publicity agent and Lillian Ford, an actress. During the late 1940s, the whole family (along with her two older brothers) performed together on stage with their daughter as "The World's Youngest Mind Reader".
Shortly after finishing high school, she began supporting herself as a painter with an art scholarship but also took several dance classes. This led to an audition for Don Arden, who hired her to dance in his play. Mary Carol Lee started working professionally as a dancer in Broadway shows.
By 1964, her dancing career had plunged into films. George Cukor had been so impressed by her that, apart from her dancing part in My Fair Lady, he gave her a minor role as a Magpie in the race scene with Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. She acquired an agent and also changes her name to Victoria Carroll because there already were actresses named Mary Ford and Carol Lee Ford registered in the SAG.
Despite her part in a highly praised and successful film, Carroll had small roles in films throughout the 1960s: a part in the chorus in Robin and the 7 Hoods, the dance girl playing Lady Godiva in The Art of Love, the shoeshine girl in How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, the woman presenting Elvis Presley's character with his trophy in Spinout, the girl who is mistaken for a spy by Marty Allen's character in The Last of the Secret Agents?, dance hall girl in The Fastest Guitar Alive, and crime boss Earl Veasey's girlfriend in The Road Hustlers. In 1969, she played the go-go dancer in the horror film Nightmare in Wax.
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