1932
Burmese-born Actress who starred in one of the greatest sci-fi films
room United Kingdom
Edwina Carroll was born in Rangoon, Burma in 1932 and grew up in Oxford, UK. She first auditioned for the musical The King and I but ended up being cast in The Teahouse of the August Moon, which ran at Her Majesty's Theatre. In 1956, she was cast in A Town like Alice and continued to work in film and television over the 1960s. The Anglo-Burmese actress also took modeling jobs as she was considered a "versatile’ model" (due to her mixed-blood she could be considered for various ethnicities); in an interview she explained, "I could be shooting an advert for one of the Arab countries in the morning and then in the afternoon being photographed for a Chinese brand."
The pinnacle of Carroll's career was starring in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi classic, in which she played the role of the stewardess on the Aries-1B spacecraft’ - she is pictured here in the costume she wore, with the Pan Am logo. She later left acting and ran a boutique in London's Covent Garden for 15 years before she retired.