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Caitlin Clarke (May 3, 1952 - September 9, 2004) was an American theater and film actress.

She may have been best-known for her role as "Valerian" in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer or for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998-1999 Broadway musical Titanic.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Stage 2.1 Broadway 2.2 Off-Broadway 2.3 Regional 3 Film 4 Television 5 External links

Clarke was born Katherine Anne Clarke in Pittsburgh. received her B.A. in theater from Mount Holyoke College in 1974 and M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama in 1978 (where during her final year she performed with the Yale Repertory Theater).

The first few years of Clarke's professional career were almost completely theatrical. After appearing in three Broadway plays in 1985, Clarke moved to Los Angeles for several years as a film and television actress. She returned to theater in the early 1990s, and to Broadway as Charlotte Cardoza in Titanic.

Clarke was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2000. She returned to Pittsburgh to teach theater at the University of Pittsburgh and at a local conservatory until her death in 2004.

• Titanic: A New Musical (1998)
• The Marriage of Figaro (1985)
• Arms and the Man (1985)
• Strange Interlude (1985)
• Teaneck Tanzi: The Venus Flytrap (1983)

• Three Birds Alighting On A Field (1994)
• Unexpected Tenderness (1994)
• Quartermaine's Terms (1984)
• Thin Ice (1984)
• Total Eclipse (1984)
• Summer (1983)
• No End of Blame (1981)
• Othello (1979)

• The Gigli Concert (Pittsburgh, 2002)
• Aristocrats (Pittsburgh, 2002)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Rochester, NY, 2000)
• Griller (Baltimore, 1999)
• Indiscretions (Dallas, 1997)
• The Glass Menagerie (Portland, Maine, 1997)
• Mrs. Warren's Profession (New Haven, 1996)
• The Queen And The Rebels (Baltimore, 1991)
• Our Country's Good (Los Angeles, 1989)
• Not Quite Jerusalem (New Haven, [984)
• As You Like It (San Diego, 1984)
• Summer Vacation Madness (Minneapolis, 1982)
• Plenty (Chicago, 1981)
• Bal (Chicago, 1980)
• The Winter's Tale (Washington, 1979)
• Tales From The Vienna Woods (New Haven, 1978)

• Never Again (2002)
• Joe The King (1998)
• Cost of Living (1997)
• A Cure For Serpents (1997)
• Blown Away (1994)
• The Big Picture (1989)
• Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989)
• Crocodile Dundee (1986)
• Kenny (aka The Kid Brother) (1985)
• Dragonslayer (1981)

Series: Northern Exposure, The Equalizer, Once A Hero, Moonlighting, Sex And The City, Law & Order ("Menace", "Juvenile", "Stiff").

Movies: Mayflower Madam (1986), Love, Lies and Murder (1991), The Stepford Husbands (1996).

• Caitlin Clarke at the Internet Movie Database
• The Caitlin Clarke Page
• Obituary (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Obituary page