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An iconic actress was spotted on a rare outing in Los Angeles this week.
She was born into a showbusiness family, and taken to her first audition for a role in Blossoms in the Dust at just 12 days old.
She went on to have a fruitful career in Tinseltown, beginning with a role as a Magpie in My Fair Lady.
This star counts Dick Van Dyke as a co-star, appearing with him in the 1965 comedy The Art of Love. And she was also in the 1985 Tom Hanks-led film The Man with One Red Shoe.
Now 85, she has established herself as a fine artist in addition to her acting background.
Can you guess who she is?
An iconic actress was spotted on a rare outing in Los Angeles this week
She was born into a show business family, and taken to her first audition for a role in Blossoms in the Dust at just 12 days old, per a biography on Groundlings's website
It's Victoria Carroll!
In addition to the aforementioned credits, she enjoyed a string of regular roles on shows including Alice, One Day At A Time, Gimme A Break, and The Incredible Hulk.
And she appeared as a guest star in other series like Murder She Wrote, Three’s Company, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty, and The Love Boat.
Carroll is one of the founding members of the improv company The Groundlings.
However, she exited the group in the 80s to curate The West End Playhouse, with her then-future-husband Michael Bell.
The couple wed in 1984 and share one child, daughter Ashley Bell.
Their relationship has been prolific, with the pair producing successful original plays like Lillian Groag’s Ladies of the Camellias and The White Rose.
And their Los Angeles-based theatre spawned a seniors improv company dubbed The Silver Streakers.
Carroll pictured in 1979 in a pilot for the series I Do, I Don't
She went on to have a fruitful career in Tinseltown; pictured in Three's Company
She counts Dick Van Dyke as a co-star, appearing with him in the 1965 comedy The Art of Love
Pictured in the 1982 sitcom No Soap, Radio
As a fine artist, Carroll has been featured in American Artist and International Artist magazines.
She's also received top awards in the Andrew Carnegie Museum’s Classic Competition.
The multihyphenate holds membership status in the Portrait Society of America and her art is coveted throughout the United States.
She has previously reflected on the similarity between acting and being a visual artist.
'The complexity of the human spirit has always intrigued me,' she's quoted on her official site.
'I’m convinced my experience as an actress has informed my art because I have been trained to observe people with the kind of intensity that would enable me to faithfully portray the scale of human emotions.
'I have found that recreating those emotions on stage is not so far removed from recreating those emotions on canvas,' she explained. 'The applause however, is just a bit more silent.'
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