R.I.P. Pat Carroll, The Little Mermaid’s Ursula
The iconic villain also had a long career as an actor and comedian

Grammy and Emmy-winning actor and comedian Pat Carroll, who worked in television and onstage for decades before putting in one of the most iconic performances in animated movie history as Ursula in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, has died. This comes from Deadline which says she died at her home in Massachusetts this weekend while recovering from pneumonia. Carroll was 95.
Born in Louisiana in 1927, Carroll got her start as an actor in 1948’s Hometown Girl, working as a bit player with one-off roles in a handful of TV shows throughout the next few years like Goodyear Playhouse, General Electric Theater, and Studio 57. She won an Emmy for her work on sketch comedy show Caesar’s Hour (which won every major acting category at the 1957 Emmy Awards, a record that would stand for decades) and later had regular gigs on The Danny Thomas Show (a.k.a. Make Room For Daddy) and The Red Skelton Hour.