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Caitlin Clarke (May 3, 1952 - September 9, 2004),
born Katherine Anne Clarke, was an United
States|American theater and film actor|actress. 
She was best known for her role of Valerian in the
1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer, and for her role
of Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998-1999
Broadway_theater|Broadway musical theater|musical
Titanic (musical)|Titanic.

==Biography==

Clarke was born in Pittsburgh, majored in drama at
Mount Holyoke College, and attended Yale School of
Drama, 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; yet these were when she
played the role for which she is best known, as
Valerian in the 1981 Paramount
Pictures|Paramount/Walt Disney Pictures|Disney
film Dragonslayer.  After appearing in three
Broadway_theater|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 1990's, and to
Broadway_theater|Broadway as Charlotte Cardoza in
Titanic (musical)|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.

==Stage==

===Broadway===

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

===Off-Broadway===

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

===Regional===

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

==Film==

* Dragonslayer (1981)
* Crocodile Dundee (1983)
* Kenny (aka The Kid Brother) (1985)
* Penn And Teller Get Killed (1989)
* The Big Picture (1989)
* Blown Away (1994)
* A Cure For Serpents (1997)
* Cost of Living (1997)
* Joe The King (1998)
* Never Again (2002)

==Television==

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).

==External Links==
http://www.dysmey.org/cc/cc_index.html The Caitlin
Clarke Page

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04257/378123.stm
Obituary (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

http://www.einsiders.com/features/columns/sept04ob
ituaries.php Obituary page