Carolee Carmello is an American actress best known for her performances in Broadway musicals and for playing the role of Maple LaMarsh on the television series Remember WENN (1996–1998).

She originated the role of Lucille Frank in Parade at Lincoln Center, for which she won the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (in a tie with Bernadette Peters)[4] and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

[citation needed] She appeared as Donna Sheridan in the long-running hit musical Mamma Mia!

[5] She again joined the cast as Donna in September 2006,[6] taking a leave from March 14, 2007, to May 13, 2007, to appear in an early version of Saving Aimee.

[8] She took over the role of the Mother Superior from Victoria Clark in the Broadway production of Sister Act on November 19, 2011.