Caroline Ellis

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Caroline Ellis
Born (1950-10-12) 12 October 1950 (age 74)
London, England
OccupationActress

Caroline Ellis (born 12 October 1950 in Whetstone, North London) is a retired English actress. She is best known for her role in Only Fools and Horses as Michelle and her other roles in a 1968 TV adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story The Boscombe Valley Mystery , Jill Rowles in the Southern TV adventure series Freewheelers in 1972, and a "Brummie" holiday camper (Glad) in the raunchy 1977 comedy film Confessions from a Holiday Camp . [1] [2]

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Ellis was best known to American audiences for her role as the character Joy in The Bugaloos (1970). [3]

Ellis is divorced and the mother of one daughter, Sasha, born in 1985. As of 2006, Ellis was no longer acting [3] but was working in real estate in Spain, where she lived with her daughter. [3]

A sampled excerpt of Ellis singing a line from the Bugaloos appears on "The Darkness That You Fear", a 2021 single from The Chemical Brothers.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1977 Confessions from a Holiday Camp Glad

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1968 Sherlock Holmes Patience MoranEpisode: "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"
1970–1971 The Bugaloos Joy
1972 Freewheelers Jill Rowles
1976The Many Wives of PatrickSheilaEpisode: "Goodbye and Hello"
1980 Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson TheresaEpisode: "The Case of the Travelling Killer"
1981 Only Fools and Horses MichelleEpisode: "Go West Young Man"
1982–1983The Cut Price Comedy Show

References

  1. ↑ "Caroline Ellis". BFI. Archived from the original on 15 July 2022.
  2. ↑ "Caroline Ellis". www.aveleyman.com.
  3. 1 2 3 Itzkoff, Dave (30 July 2006). "A DVD Revives the Bugaloos, a Band With the Life Span of an Ant". New York Times. Retrieved 23 September 2015.


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