Joan Rosaline Clarkson (14 March 1904 – 19 June 1982) was an English actress who was most active in the 1920s and 1930s.

[2][3] Her stage credits included roles in Cyrano de Bergerac (1919), The Little Whopper (1920),[4][5] An Old-Fashioned Girl (1922)[6] Fun of the Fayre (1922),[7] The Happy Ending (1922),[4][8] John Galsworthy's Havoc (1924),[9] Cochran's 1930 Revue (1930),[10] Noel Coward's revue sketches A Tube Station, Ignorance is Bliss,The English Lido, and Rules of Three (all 1928),[11] and Sunshine Sisters (1933).

[12] On film, Clarkson was best known for her appearances as Karamaneh in The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu, a 1923 series of more than a dozen short silent films, based on the 1913 novel and starring Harry Agar Lyons.

[14] Philip de László painted a portrait of her in a white dress in 1935.

[15] Clarkson married producer William Mollison in 1928;[16][17] she left him in 1935,[18] and they divorced in 1939.