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

Caroline Ellis (born 12 October 1950) is an 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]

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

Year Title Role Notes
1977 Confessions from a Holiday Camp Glad

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1968 Sherlock Holmes Patience Moran Episode: "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"
1970–1971 The Bugaloos Joy
1972 Freewheelers Jill Rowles
1976 The Many Wives of Patrick Sheila Episode: "Goodbye and Hello"
1980 Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson Theresa Episode: "The Case of the Travelling Killer"
1981 Only Fools and Horses Michelle Episode: "Go West Young Man"
1982–1983 The 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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