Carole Augusta Shelley ( August â€" August ) was a British-American
actress who made her career in the United States. Her many stage roles
included Gwendolyn Pigeon in The Odd Couple, the character of Madame
Morrible in the original Broadway cast of the musical Wicked. She won
the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in The
Elephant Man in .Shelley was born in London, England, the daughter of
Deborah (née Bloomstein), an opera singer of Russian Jewish descent,
and Curtis Shelley, a composer of German Jewish origin. Her father had
emigrated to London before World War II.Shelley made her Broadway
debut as Gwendolyn Pigeon in the original production of The Odd
Couple (starring Art Carney and Walter Matthau). She reprised the role
for the film version (with Jack Lemmon replacing Carney), and for
(the first part of) the first season of the subsequent television
series (starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman). She and Monica Evans,
who co-starred as her sister Cecily Pigeon, were the only two
performers to be in all three of The Odd Couple versions: stage, then
film, then the first television adaptationâ€"and in the same roles.
actress who made her career in the United States. Her many stage roles
included Gwendolyn Pigeon in The Odd Couple, the character of Madame
Morrible in the original Broadway cast of the musical Wicked. She won
the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in The
Elephant Man in .Shelley was born in London, England, the daughter of
Deborah (née Bloomstein), an opera singer of Russian Jewish descent,
and Curtis Shelley, a composer of German Jewish origin. Her father had
emigrated to London before World War II.Shelley made her Broadway
debut as Gwendolyn Pigeon in the original production of The Odd
Couple (starring Art Carney and Walter Matthau). She reprised the role
for the film version (with Jack Lemmon replacing Carney), and for
(the first part of) the first season of the subsequent television
series (starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman). She and Monica Evans,
who co-starred as her sister Cecily Pigeon, were the only two
performers to be in all three of The Odd Couple versions: stage, then
film, then the first television adaptationâ€"and in the same roles.
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