Helena Carroll is a Scottish film, television and stage actress. She was born and raised in Edinburgh, where she attended Notre Dame High School

Notre Dame High School (Glasgow)

Notre Dame High School is a public Roman Catholic girls secondary school located on Observatory Road in Glasgow, Scotland, and founded in 1897....

. She began her career in the early 1950s.

Carroll is mostly a stage and musical theatre actress (Oliver!

Oliver!

Oliver! is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....

on Broadway), but has also done many films and television programs, including a filmed version of James Joyce

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...

's The Dead

The Dead (short story)

"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is the longest story in the collection and is often considered the best of Joyce's shorter works. At 15,672 words it has also been considered a novella....

, starring Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston is an American actress. Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Academy Award, for her performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston. She later was nominated in 1989 and 1990 for her acting in...

 and Donal McCann

Donal McCann

Donal McCann was an Irish stage, film, and television actor best known for his roles in the works of Brian Friel and for his lead role in John Huston's last film, The Dead.-Early life:...

.

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