Caitlin Clarke
| Caitlin Clarke | |
|---|---|
 Clarke in Dragonslayer (1981) | |
| Born |
Katherine Anne Clarke May 3, 1952 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died |
September 9, 2004 (aged 52) Sewickley, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | actor, instructor |
| Years active | 1978–2001 |
Caitlin Clarke (May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004) was an American theater and film actress best known for her role as Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998–1999 Broadway musical Titanic.
Biography
Clarke was born Katherine Anne Clarke in Pittsburgh, the oldest of five sisters, the youngest of whom is Victoria Clarke. Her family moved to Sewickley when she was ten.
Clarke received her B.A. in theater arts from Mount Holyoke College in 1974 and her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama in 1978. During her final year at Yale Clarke performed with the Yale Repertory Theater in such plays as Tales from the Vienna Woods.
The first few years of Clarke's professional career were largely theatrical, apart from her role in Dragonslayer. After appearing in three Broadway plays in 1985, Clarke moved to Los Angeles for several years as a film and television actress. She returned to theater in the early 1990s, and to Broadway as Charlotte Cardoza in Titanic.
Clarke was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2000. She returned to Pittsburgh to teach theater at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Pittsburgh Musical Theater's Rauh Conservatory as well as to perform in Pittsburgh theatre until her death on September 9, 2004.
Stage
Broadway
- 1983 - Teaneck Tanzi: The Venus Flytrap
- 1985 - The Marriage of Figaro
- 1985 - Arms and the Man
- 1985 - Strange Interlude
- 1998 - Titanic: A New Musical
Off-Broadway
- 1979 - Othello
- 1981 - No End of Blame
- 1983 - Summer
- 1984 - Total Eclipse
- 1984 - Quartermaine's Terms
- 1984 - Thin Ice
- 1994 - Three Birds Alighting On A Field
- 1994 - Unexpected Tenderness
Regional
- 1978 - Tales from the Vienna Woods (New Haven)
- 1979 - The Winter's Tale (Washington)
- 1980 - Bal (Chicago)
- 1981 - Plenty (Chicago)
- 1982 - Summer Vacation Madness (Minneapolis)
- 1984 - As You Like It (San Diego)
- 1984 - Not Quite Jerusalem (New Haven)
- 1989 - Our Country's Good (Los Angeles)
- 1991 - The Queen And The Rebels (Baltimore)
- 1996 - Mrs. Warren's Profession (New Haven)
- 1997 - Indiscretions (Dallas)
- 1997 - The Glass Menagerie (Portland, Maine)
- 1999 - Griller (Baltimore)
- 2000 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Rochester, NY)
- 2002 - The Gigli Concert (Pittsburgh)
- 2002 - Aristocrats (Pittsburgh)
Film
- Dragonslayer (1981)
- Kenny (a.k.a. The Kid Brother) (1985)
- "Crocodile" Dundee (1986)
- Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989)
- The Big Picture (1989)
- Blown Away (1994)
- Cost of Living (1997)
- A Cure For Serpents (1997)
- Joe the King (1999)
- Never Again (2002)
Television
Series: Northern Exposure, The Equalizer, Once A Hero, Moonlighting, Sex And The City, Law & Order ("Menace", "Juvenile", "Stiff").
Movies: Mayflower Madam (1986), Love, Lies and Murder (1991), The Stepford Husbands (1996). The episode, " The Witness", Matlock 1990
External links
- Caitlin Clarke at the Internet Movie Database
- Obituary (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) at the Wayback Machine (archived June 3, 2011)
- Caitlin Clarke at Find a Grave