Carole Cole
Carole "Cookie" Cole (October 17, 1944 – May 19, 2009) was an American actress and music producer as the CEO of King Cole Productions. She was sometimes credited as Carol Cole. She was the daughter of Jazz singer Nat King Cole and Maria Cole; older sister of singer Natalie Cole.
Early life
Cole was born in Medford, Massachusetts and was the adopted daughter of Nat King Cole and adopted sister of Natalie Cole. Her biological mother, Carol Hawkins, was the sister of Nat King Cole's wife, Maria. Through her mother, Cole was related to educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown.
Career
Cole received an associate's degree at Cazenovia College and pursued a vital acting career that spanned theater, television and film. In 1964, she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures New Talent program, along with friend and colleague Harrison Ford. During her acting career she starred in the motion pictures The Silencers (1967), The Mad Room, (1969), Promise at Dawn (1970), and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974). She appeared on television in Positively Black (1975) and was a series costar on the NBC sitcom Sanford and Son. On stage, Cole appeared in Gore Vidal's Weekend (1968), the Lincoln Center Public Theater production of Pericles (1974 New York Shakespeare Festival) and What If It Had Turned Up Heads (1972). She also appeared as a series regular in the role of Ellie, the daughter of Grady Wilson, in the 1970s TV series Grady (a spin-off of the highly successful Sanford and Son).
Carole Cole (disambiguation)
Carole Cole may refer to:
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ALBUMS
- The Extraordinary released: 2014
The Extraordinary
Released 2014- L-O-V-E
- Walkin'
- (I Would Do) Anything For You
- The Song is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)
- Unforgettable
- Walkin' My Baby Back Home
- I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter)
- Midnight Flyer
- Send For Me
- Open Up the Doghouse (Two Cats Are Coming In)
- (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
- Love
- Papa Loves Mambo
- You've Got the Indian Sign On Me
- Mona Lisa
- Let's Face the Music and Dance
- Almost Like Being in Love
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Orange Colored Sky
- Long, Long Ago
- Breezin' Along With the Breeze
- You're Wrong All Wrong (Previously Unreleased)
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