Carole Wells

Carole Wells (born August 31, 1942) is an American actress, opera singer, producer and author. Early years The daughter of a doctor, Wells was born Carole Maureen Wells in Shreveport, Louisiana, the fourth of six children in her family. Her siblings were two brothers and three sisters. She graduated from Hollywood High School, where she was a sorority sister of future actress Linda Evans. Stage Wells began acting with a role in a play at a little theater in Burbank, California, when she was 12 years old. Described as a light soprano, Wells took opera lessons in the 1960s and expanded her repertoire to musical theater, performing in "musical productions of The Sound of Music, Call Me Madam with Ethel Merman ... Wildcat with Martha Raye, and State Fair with Roger Smith."