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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Caitlin Clarke (May 3, 1952 - September 9, 2004), born Katherine Anne Clarke, was an American theater and film actress. She was best known for her role of Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer, and for her role of Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998-1999 Broadway musical Titanic.
Biography
Clarke was born in Pittsburgh, majored in drama at Mount Holyoke College, and attended Yale School of Drama, where during her final year she performed with the Yale Repertory Theater. The first few years of Clarke's professional career were almost completely theatrical; yet these were when she played the role for which she is best known, as Valerian in the 1981 Paramount/Disney film Dragonslayer. After appearing in three Broadway plays in 1985, Clarke moved to Los Angeles for several years as a film and television actress. She returned to theater in the early 1990's, and to Broadway as Charlotte Cardoza in Titanic.
Clarke was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2000. She returned to Pittsburgh to teach theater at the University of Pittsburgh and at a local conservatory until her death in 2004.
Stage
Broadway
- Teaneck Tanzi: The Venus Flytrap (1983)
- Strange Interlude (1985)
- Arms and the Man (1985)
- The Marriage of Figaro (1985)
- Titanic: A New Musical (1998)
Off-Broadway
- Othello (1979)
- No End of Blame (1981)
- Summer (1983)
- Quartermaine's Terms (1984)
- Thin Ice (1984)
- Total Eclipse (1984)
- Three Birds Alighting On A Field (1994)
- Unexpected Tenderness (1994)
Regional
- Tales From The Vienna Woods (New Haven, 1978)
- The Winter's Tale (Washington, 1979)
- Bal (Chicago, 1980)
- Plenty (Chicago, 1981)
- Summer Vacation Madness (Minneapolis, 1982)
- Not Quite Jerusalem (New Haven, 1984)
- As You Like It (San Diego, 1984)
- Our Country's Good (Los Angeles, 1989)
- The Queen And The Rebels (Baltimore, 1991)
- Mrs. Warren's Profession (New Haven, 1996)
- Indiscretions (Dallas, 1997)
- The Glass Menagerie (Portland, Maine, 1997)
- Griller (Baltimore, 1999)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Rochester, NY, 2000)
- The Gigli Concert (Pittsburgh, 2002)
- Aristocrats (Pittsburgh, 2002)
Film
- Dragonslayer (1981)
- Crocodile Dundee (1983)
- Kenny (aka The Kid Brother) (1985)
- Penn And Teller Get Killed (1989)
- The Big Picture (1989)
- Blown Away (1994)
- A Cure For Serpents (1997)
- Cost of Living (1997)
- Joe The King (1998)
- Never Again (2002)
Television
Series: Northern Exposure, The Equalizer, Once A Hero, Moonlighting, Sex And The City, Law & Order ("Menace", "Juvenile", "Stiff"). Movies: Mayflower Madam (1986), Love, Lies and Murder (1991), The Stepford Husbands (1996).
External Links
The Caitlin Clarke Page
Obituary (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Obituary page
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