Madeleine Carroll
AKA: Edith Madeleine Carroll
Birthday: 1906-02-26
Died: 1987-10-02
Birthplace: West Bromwich, England, UK
Edith Madeleine Carroll (26 February 1906 - 2 October 1987) was an English actress, popular both in Britain and America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success she was the highest-paid actress in the world, earning a then staggering $250,000 in 1938. Carroll is remembered for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. She is also noted for abandoning her acting career after the death of her sister Marguerite in the London Blitz, to devote herself to helping wounded servicemen and children displaced and maimed by the war.
Filmography
Character: Elsa Carrington
Character: Princess Flavia
Character: Elizabeth Stacy
Character: Carol Delbridge
Character: Lady Madeleine Boycott
Character: Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 1914
Character: Martha Cnockhaert
Character: Queen Caroline Matilde of Danmark
Character: Charlotte Dunterry
Character: 'The Prisoner of Zenda' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Character: Christopher West
Character: Gwenda Farrell
Character: Diana Cheswick
Character: Leonora Pettycoate
Character: Mlle. Juliette / Dorothy Glenister
Character: Lady Molly Adair
Character: Lucille de Choisigne
Character: Lady Margaret Rochester
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self (uncredited)
Character: The Introducer