Carol Lawrence (born Carolina Maria Laraia; September 5, 1932) is an American actress, appearing in musical theatre and on television.

Her parents were of Italian ancestry,[2] her father being born in Trivigno, in the province of Potenza, and her maternal family coming from the same town.

[1] Lawrence made her Broadway debut as a Ted Adair Dancer in the 1951 revue Borscht Capades, alongside Joel Grey.

Among her other musical theatre parts are the title role in Mame (2000 at the Helen Hayes Center for Performing Arts in Nyack, New York),[11] Guenevere in Camelot (opposite husband Robert Goulet),[1] Do I Hear a Waltz?

[13] Her television performances include a guest role in Breaking Point (as Evelyn Denner in the 1963 episode titled "There Are the Hip, and There Are the Square").

In October 1976, she appeared as the special guest on the popular weekly variety program The Bobby Vinton Show, which aired across the United States and Canada.

Price, DNC Secretary Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush, Lena Horne, Richard Adler, and Sidney Salomon on a visit with President John F. Kennedy at The White House on November 20, 1963, two days before his assassination.