Caitlin Clarke

Caitlin Clarke (May 3, 1952 - September 9, 2004) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A US stage and film actress of the 1980s and 1990s, she was best known for her film role of Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer, and for her stage role of Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998-1999 Broadway musical Titanic. She died after a long battle with ovarian cancer.

Selected Performances

Theater

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), Charlotte: Life? or Theater? (Philadelphia, 2001), 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), Kiss And Tell (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 And Order ("Menace", "Juvenile", "Stiff").
Movies: Mayflower Madam (1986), Love, Lies and Murder (1991), The Stepford Husbands (1996).


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Series: Northern Exposure, The Equalizer, Once A Hero, Moonlighting, Sex And The City, Law And Order ("Menace", "Juvenile", "Stiff").
Movies: Mayflower Madam (1986), Love, Lies and Murder (1991), The Stepford Husbands (1996). and Malcom X, with Davis giving Maclom X's eulogy at his 1965 funeral.
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), Kiss And Tell (1997), Cost of Living (1997), Joe The King (1998),Never Again (2002). Dee and Davis were personal friends of both Martin Luther King, Jr. 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), Charlotte: Life? or Theater? (Philadelphia, 2001), The Gigli Concert (Pittsburgh, 2002), Aristocrats (Pittsburgh, 2002). Dee is a member of such organizations as CORE, the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 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. Ruby Dee and her husband, actor Ossie Davis, are well-known civil rights activists.

She died after a long battle with ovarian cancer. She has been nominated for seven Emmy Awards, winning once for her role in 1990s Decoration Day. A US stage and film actress of the 1980s and 1990s, she was best known for her film role of Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer, and for her stage role of Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998-1999 Broadway musical Titanic. Her acting career has crossed all major forms of media over a span of 8 decades. Caitlin Clarke (May 3, 1952 - September 9, 2004) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A 1945 graduate of Hunter College, Dee made several appearances on Broadway before getting national recognition for her role in the 1950 film, The Jackie Robinson Story. Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, though she grew up in Harlem.

Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an African-American actress and activist. The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) - Rae Robinson. A Raisin in the Sun (1961) - Ruth Younger. The Incident (1967) - Joan Robinson.

Roots: The Next Generations (1979) - Queen Haley. Do the Right Thing (1989) - Mother Sister. Decoration Day (1990) - Rowena. Jungle Fever (1991) - Lucinda Purify.

Taking Back Our Town (2001) - Emelda West.