Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
5/27/1935
Place of Birth
Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK
Also Known As
Maureen Lesley Carole RippingaleMaureen Rippingale
Carole Lesley
Biography
Maureen Rippingale (27 May 1935, in Chelmsford – 28 February 1974, in New Barnet), known professionally as Carole Lesley, was a British actress who had a short but significant career as a "blonde bombshell". Lesley ran away from home at the age of 16, "aiming to become a star". She starred in several films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the 1957 film Woman in a Dressing Gown, which won the 1958 Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film. She also appeared in Doctor in Love, Operation Bullshine and What a Whopper, and played Helen of Troy in a television play. Ho...
Known For
Operation Bullshine
as Pvt. Marge White
Trottie True
as Clare as a child
No Trees in the Street
as Lova
Three on a Spree
as Susan
The Good Companions
as Film Star (as Leslie Carroll)
The Embezzler
as Tea Shop Waitress
The Pot Carriers
as Wendy
Doctor in Love
as Miss Kitten Strudwick
What a Whopper
as Charlotte 'Charlie' Pinner
Woman in a Dressing Gown
as Hilda Harper
These Dangerous Years
as Dinah Brown
The Silver Darlings
as Una (child)