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Carol Cleveland (born January 13, 1942, London, England) is a British comic actress, most notable for her appearances as the only significant female performer on Monty Python's Flying Circus. She also appeared with Spike Milligan and on The Two Ronnies, The Persuaders!, and other TV shows and films. She appeared in all four seasons of the series and all four of the Monty Python movies. Privately called Carol Cleavage by the other Pythons, Carol played an archetypal blonde bombshell. Stage directions for her first sketch described her as "a blonde buxom wench in the full bloom of womanhood". She called herself the glamour stooge.

In 1995, Cleveland had a small cameo in a sketch in Fist of Fun series 1 episode three. This BBC comedy show featured Stewart Lee and Richard Herring, and was Cleveland's first - and so far only - appearance in a non-Python sketch show.

She moved to the United States with her mother and stepfather at an early age and was raised in San Antonio, Texas and later Pasadena, California, returning to London with her family in 1960.[1] She is a former Miss California Navy and appeared as Miss Teen Queen in MAD Magazine at age 15. She also studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and now performs in a one-woman show, Carol Cleveland Reveals All.

Her mother, known as Pat, appeared in Monty Python on several occasions, once as a mental patient with an axe embedded in her head.

See also

• Monty Python - Carol Cleveland

Quotation

• "But it's my only line!" -- punchline of a Python sketch in which a joke she delivered did not go over very well.

External links

• Carol Cleveland's official site

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