Pat Carroll ( actress ) - wikipedia Pat Carroll ( actress ) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. ( October 2013 ) Pat Carroll Carroll in 1972 Patricia Ann Carroll ( 1927 - 05 - 05 ) May 5, 1927 ( age 91 ) Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. Other names Pat Ann Carroll Patricia Carroll Occupation Actress, voice actress, comedian Years active 1947 -- present Notable work Voice of Ursula the Sea Witch in Disney 's The Little Mermaid ( 1989 ) Television Make Room for Daddy, Laverne & Shirley, ER Spouse ( s ) Lee Karsian ( m. 1955 -- 1976 ) Children 3, including Tara Karsian Parent ( s ) Maurice Clifton Carroll Kathryn Angela Meagher Patricia Ann Carroll ( born May 5, 1927 ) is an American actress, voice actress and comedian. She is known for voicing Ursula in The Little Mermaid as well as having a long acting career, including appearances in CBS 's The Danny Thomas Show, ABC 's Laverne & Shirley, NBC 's ER, other guest - starring and series - regular roles on American television as well as voice - acting in several cartoon series. Carroll is an Emmy, Drama Desk and Grammy Award winner and a Tony Award nominee. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Other achievements 4 Personal life 5 Filmography 5.1 Film 5.2 Television 5.3 Video games 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links Early life Carroll was born Patricia Ann Carroll in Shreveport, Louisiana, on May 5, 1927, to Maurice Clifton Carroll and Kathryn Angela ( née Meagher ) Her family moved to Los Angeles when Pat was five years old and she soon began acting in local productions. She graduated from Immaculate Heart High School and attended Catholic University of America after enlisting in the United States Army as a civilian actress technician. Career In 1956, Carroll won an Emmy Award for her work on Caesar 's Hour and was a regular on the sitcom Make Room for Daddy from 1961 to 1964. She guest starred in the drama anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. Carroll also appeared on many variety shows of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, such as The Red Buttons Show, The Danny Kaye Show, The Red Skelton Show, and The Carol Burnett Show. In 1965, she co-starred as `` Prunella '', one of the wicked stepsisters in the 1965 production of Rodgers and Hammerstein 's musical version of Cinderella. In the late 1970s Carroll 's successful one woman show on Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein ( by playwright Marty Martin ), won several major theater awards, her recorded version won a 1980 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama. In early 1976, Carroll was cast as Lily, the mother of Shirley Feeney ( played by Cindy Williams ) in the episode, `` Mother Knows Worst '' on the hit ABC situation comedy, Laverne & Shirley. She portrayed Pearl Markowitz, the mother of Adam Arkin 's character Lenny Markowitz, in the 1977 CBS situation comedy Busting Loose. Her frequent television roles in the 1980s included newspaper owner Hope Stinson on the syndicated The Ted Knight Show ( the former Too Close for Comfort ) during its final season in 1986 ; and that of Gussie Holt, the mother of Suzanne Somers ' lead character in the syndicated sitcom She 's the Sheriff ( 1987 -- 1989 ). Since the late 1980s, Carroll has had a great deal of voice - over work on animated programs such as A Pup Named Scooby - Doo, Galaxy High, Foofur and A Goofy Movie. On TV 's Pound Puppies, she voiced Katrina Stoneheart. On two Garfield television specials ( A Garfield Christmas and Garfield 's Thanksgiving ), she portrayed Jon 's feisty Grandmother... She also voiced the character of Granny in the 2005 re-release of Hayao Miyazaki 's My Neighbor Totoro. In 1989, Carroll portrayed the sea witch Ursula in Disney 's The Little Mermaid and sang `` Poor Unfortunate Souls ''. In interviews, Carroll has referred to the role as one of the favorites of her career. She has since reprised the role in other forms of media, including the Kingdom Hearts series of video games, the spinoff television series, and in various Disney theme parks attractions and shows. Carroll also appeared on a variety of game shows including Celebrity Sweepstakes, You Do n't Say, To Tell the Truth, Password and I 've Got a Secret. A member of the Actors Studio, she has also had a successful career in the theater, appearing in numerous plays including productions of Our Town and Sophocles ' Electra. In 1990, she starred in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger in the role of Sir John Falstaff, a balding knight with whiskers. When drama critic Frank Rich of The New York Times reviewed her performance he wrote : `` Her performance is a triumph from start to finish, and, I think, a particularly brave and moving one, with implications that go beyond this one production. Ms. Carroll and Mr. Kahn help revivify the argument that the right actresses can perform some of the great classic roles traditionally denied to women and make them their own. It 's not a new argument, to be sure ; female Hamlets stretch back into history. But what separates Ms. Carroll 's Falstaff from some other similar casting experiments of late is that her performance exists to investigate a character rather than merely as ideological window dressing for a gimmicky production. '' Other achievements Carroll served in the U.S. Army as a nurse after the Vietnam War. She was sent across the world to Vietnam as a medical personnel. She graduated from the Catholic University of America in 1950. However, her stage debut was in 1947. Personal life Carroll married Lee Karsian in 1955 and they had three children - two daughters, Kerry and Tara Karsian and a son, Sean. In 1991 Carroll received an honorary doctorate from Siena College in Albany, New York. Carroll is a practicing Roman Catholic citing that her religious views help her to determine what projects to accept. Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1963 The Incredible Journey Nell MacKenzie 1968 With Six You Get Eggroll Maxine Scott 1976 Freaky Friday Miss McGuirk, the English Teacher My Neighbor Totoro Granny Voice, 2005 Disney redub The Little Mermaid Ursula Voice 2000 Songcatcher Viney Butler The Little Mermaid II : Return to the Sea Morgana Voice Mickey 's Magical Christmas : Snowed in at the House of Mouse Ursula Voice 2002 Mickey 's House of Villains Ursula Voice 2007 Freedom Writers Miep Gies Nancy Drew Landlady Television The Red Buttons Show ( 1952 -- 1953 ) The Saturday Night Revue ( 1953 ) Make Room for Daddy ( 1953 ) - Bunny Halper The Pepsi - Cola Playhouse ( 1954 ) Studio 57 ( 1954 ) - Sue Caesar 's Hour ( 1954 ) - Alice Brewster Producers ' Showcase ( 1955 ) - Gym teacher Kraft Television Theatre ( 1955 ) The Jimmy Durante Show ( 1955 ) The Steve Allen Show ( 1958 ) Hobby Lobby ( 1959 ) General Electric Theater ( 1959 ) - Frances Dowd The DuPont Show with June Allyson ( 1959 ) - Cherry The Ann Sothern Show ( 1961 ) - Pandora The Investigators ( 1961 ) The United States Steel Hour ( 1961 ) The Red Skelton Show ( 1962 ) Rodgers and Hammerstein 's Cinderella ( 1965 ) - Prunella Please Do n't Eat the Daisies ( 1966 ) - Carol Baker The Mary Tyler Moore Show ( 1971 ) - Loretta Kuhne The Interns ( 1971 ) - Maria Love, American Style ( 1970 -- 1971 ) Getting Together ( 1971 - 1972 ) - Rita Simon Police Story ( 1974 ) - Mrs. Bannister Nakia ( 1974 ) - Belle Jones in episode `` A Matter of Choice '' Laverne & Shirley ( 1976 ) - Mrs. Feeney Good Heavens ( 1976 ) - Harriet Busting Loose ( 1977 ) - Pearl Markowitz Police Woman ( 1977 ) - Miriam Stein The Love Boat ( 1978 ) Legends of the Superheroes ( 1979 ) - Esther Hall Trapper John, M.D. ( 1985 ) - Aunt Mo Crazy Like a Fox ( 1985 ) Yogi 's Treasure Hunt ( 1985 ) - Additional Voices Pound Puppies ( 1986 ) - Katrina Stoneheart Galaxy High School ( 1986 ) - Ms. Biddy McBrain Foofur ( 1986 -- 1987 ) - Hazel Too Close for Comfort ( 1986 ) - Mrs. Hope Stinson A Garfield Christmas Special ( 1987 ) - Grandma She 's the Sheriff ( 1987 -- 1989 ) - Gussie Holt Superman ( 1988 ) - Queen Hippolyta A Pup Named Scooby - Doo ( 1989 ) - Paula P. Casso Garfield 's Thanksgiving ( 1989 ) - Grandma Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers ( 1990 ) - Koo - Koo Designing Women ( 1993 ) - Mrs. Beecham The Little Mermaid ( 1993 -- 1994 ) - Ursula The Royale ( 1996 ) Songcatcher ( 2000 ) - Viney Butler House of Mouse ( 2001 -- 2002 ) - Ursula ( voice, 5 episodes ) ER ( 2005 ) - Rebecca Chadwick ( 3 episodes ) Tangled : The Series ( 2017 - 2018 ) - Old Lady Crowley ( short : `` Make me smile '' and episodes : `` One Angry Princess '', `` Max 's Enemy '', `` Secret of the Sun Drop ''. ) Video games Kingdom Hearts ( 2002 ) - Ursula ( voice ) Kingdom Hearts : Chain of Memories ( 2004 ) - Ursula ( voice ) Kingdom Hearts II ( 2005 ) - Ursula ( voice ) Kingdom Hearts 3D : Dream Drop Distance ( 2012 ) - Ursula ( voice ) Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix ( 2013 ) - Ursula ( voice ) Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix ( 2014 ) - Ursula ( voice ) References ^ Jump up to : `` Pat Carroll Biography ( 1927 - ) ''. FilmReference.Com/City-Data.Com. Retrieved May 26, 2013. ^ Jump up to : `` Pat Carroll ''. Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center Boston University. Retrieved May 26, 2013. Jump up ^ Casselberry Manuel, Diane ( January 8, 1981 ). `` Pat Carroll ; Gertrude Stein was never a bore ''. The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved May 26, 2013. Jump up ^ `` 1980 Best Spoken Word, Documentary Or Drama ''. Grammy.Org/The Recording Academy. Retrieved May 26, 2013. ^ Jump up to : Hill, Jim. `` Why ( For ) Pat Carroll was n't actually Disney 's first choice to voice Ursula in `` The Little Mermaid '' ``. JimHillMedia. Retrieved May 26, 2013. Jump up ^ Video on YouTube Jump up ^ Simonson, Robert ; David Lefkowitz ( September 4, 1998 ). `` Stephen Spinella Joins Claire Bloom & Pat Carroll in NJ Electra Sept. 15 ''. Playbill.Com. Archived from the original on June 30, 2013. Retrieved May 26, 2013. Jump up ^ `` A Conversation With Pat Carroll at the High Falls Film Festival, May 14, 2009 ''. The Film Panel Notetaker. May 21, 2009. Archived from the original on May 13, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2013. ^ Jump up to : Rich, Frank ( May 30, 1990 ). `` Review / Theater ; Pat Carroll as Falstaff in ' Merry Wives ' at Folger ''. New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2011. Jump up ^ `` Honorary Degrees - Past Recipients ''. Siena College. Archived from the original on June 4, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2013. Jump up ^ http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Pat-Carroll/ Further reading Young, Jordan R. ( 1989 ). Acting Solo : The Art of One - Person Shows. Beverly Hills : Past Times Publishing Co. External links Wikiquote has quotations related to : Pat Carroll Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pat Carroll. Pat Carroll on IMDb Pat Carroll at the Internet Broadway Database Pat Carroll at the TCM Movie Database Pat Carroll at AllMovie Pat Carroll performs a live script reading of The Little Mermaid on YouTube Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play Ellen Burstyn ( 1975 ) Rosemary Harris ( 1976 ) Irene Worth ( 1977 ) Jessica Tandy ( 1978 ) Constance Cummings / Carole Shelley ( 1979 ) Pat Carroll ( 1980 ) Joan Copeland ( 1981 ) Zoe Caldwell ( 1982 ) Jessica Tandy ( 1983 ) Joan Allen ( 1984 ) Rosemary Harris ( 1985 ) Lily Tomlin ( 1986 ) Linda Lavin ( 1987 ) Stockard Channing ( 1988 ) Pauline Collins ( 1989 ) Geraldine James ( 1990 ) Mercedes Ruehl ( 1991 ) Laura Esterman ( 1992 ) Jane Alexander ( 1993 ) Myra Carter ( 1994 ) Cherry Jones ( 1995 ) Zoe Caldwell ( 1996 ) Janet McTeer ( 1997 ) Cherry Jones ( 1998 ) Kathleen Chalfant ( 1999 ) Eileen Heckart ( 2000 ) Mary - Louise Parker ( 2001 ) Lindsay Duncan ( 2002 ) Vanessa Redgrave ( 2003 ) Viola Davis / Phylicia Rashad ( 2004 ) Cherry Jones ( 2005 ) Lois Smith ( 2006 ) Eve Best ( 2007 ) Deanna Dunagan ( 2008 ) Janet McTeer ( 2009 ) Jan Maxwell ( 2010 ) Frances McDormand ( 2011 ) Tracie Bennett ( 2012 ) Cicely Tyson ( 2013 ) Audra McDonald ( 2014 ) Helen Mirren ( 2015 ) Jessica Lange ( 2016 ) Laura Linney ( 2017 ) Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Vivian Vance ( 1953 ) Audrey Meadows ( 1954 ) Nanette Fabray ( 1955 ) Pat Carroll ( 1956 ) Ann B. 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( 1964 ) That Was the Week That Was -- BBC Tribute to John F. Kennedy ( 1965 ) Goddard Lieberson ( producer ) -- John F. Kennedy - As We Remember Him ( 1966 ) Edward R. Murrow -- Edward R. Murrow - A Reporter Remembers, Vol. I The War Years ( 1967 ) Everett Dirksen -- Gallant Men ( 1968 ) Rod McKuen -- Lonesome Cities ( 1969 ) Art Linkletter & Diane Linkletter -- We Love You Call Collect ( 1970 ) Martin Luther King Jr. -- Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam ( 1971 ) Les Crane -- Desiderata ( 1972 ) Bruce Botnick ( producer ) -- Lenny performed by the original Broadway cast ( 1973 ) Richard Harris -- Jonathan Livingston Seagull ( 1974 ) Peter Cook and Dudley Moore -- Good Evening ( 1975 ) James Whitmore -- Give ' em Hell, Harry ! ( 1976 ) Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes, James Earl Jones and Orson Welles - Great American Documents ( 1977 ) Julie Harris -- The Belle of Amherst ( 1978 ) Orson Welles -- Citizen Kane Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ( 1979 ) John Gielgud -- Ages of Man - Readings From Shakespeare ( 1980 ) 1981 − 2000 Pat Carroll -- Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein ( 1981 ) Orson Welles -- Donovan 's Brain ( 1982 ) Tom Voegeli ( producer ) -- Raiders of the Lost Ark - The Movie on Record performed by Various Artists ( 1983 ) William Warfield -- Lincoln Portrait ( 1984 ) Ben Kingsley -- The Words of Gandhi ( 1985 ) Mike Berniker ( producer ) & the original Broadway cast -- Ma Rainey 's Black Bottom ( 1986 ) Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chips Moman, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins and Sam Phillips -- Interviews From the Class of ' 55 Recording Sessions ( 1987 ) Garrison Keillor -- Lake Wobegon Days ( 1988 ) Jesse Jackson -- Speech by Rev. Jesse Jackson ( 1989 ) Gilda Radner -- It 's Always Something ( 1990 ) George Burns -- Gracie : A Love Story ( 1991 ) Ken Burns -- The Civil War ( 1992 ) Earvin `` Magic '' Johnson and Robert O'Keefe -- What You Can Do to Avoid AIDS ( 1993 ) Maya Angelou -- On the Pulse of Morning ( 1994 ) Henry Rollins -- Get in the Van ( 1995 ) Maya Angelou -- Phenomenal Woman ( 1996 ) Hillary Clinton -- It Takes a Village ( 1997 ) Charles Kuralt -- Charles Kuralt 's Spring ( 1998 ) Christopher Reeve -- Still Me ( 1999 ) LeVar Burton -- The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. ( 2000 ) 2001 − present Sidney Poitier, Rick Harris & John Runnette ( producers ) -- The Measure of a Man : A Spiritual Autobiography ( 2001 ) Quincy Jones, Jeffrey S. Thomas, Steven Strassman ( engineers ) and Elisa Shokoff ( producer ) -- Q : The Autobiography of Quincy Jones ( 2002 ) Maya Angelou and Charles B. Potter ( producer ) -- A Song Flung Up to Heaven / Robin Williams, Nathaniel Kunkel ( engineer / mixer ) and Peter Asher ( producer ) -- Live 2002 ( 2003 ) Al Franken and Paul Ruben ( producer ) -- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them ( 2004 ) Bill Clinton -- My Life ( 2005 ) Barack Obama -- Dreams from My Father ( 2006 ) Jimmy Carter -- Our Endangered Values : America 's Moral Crisis / Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee - With Ossie and Ruby ( 2007 ) Barack Obama and Jacob Bronstein ( producer ) -- The Audacity of Hope ( 2008 ) Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood -- An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore ( 2009 ) Michael J. 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Question: who did the voice of ursula in the little mermaid
Answer: Patricia Ann Carroll