Caitlin Clarke

• Name — Caitlin Clarke • Birth Name — Katherine Anne Clarke • Born — 3 May 1952 • Birthplace — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. • Died — 9 September 2004 • Place of death — Sewickley, Pennsylvania, U.S. • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1978–2001 • Education — * Mount Holyoke College (BA) • Yale University (MFA)

Clarke was born in Pittsburgh, the oldest of five sisters, the youngest of whom is Victoria Clarke. Her family moved to Sewickley when she was ten. Clarke received her B.A. in theater arts from Mount Holyoke College in 1974 and her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama in 1978. During her final year at Yale, Clarke performed with the Yale Repertory Theater in such plays as Tales from the Vienna Woods.

Clarke starred in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer. After appearing in three Broadway plays in 1985, Clarke moved to Los Angeles for several years as a film and television actress. In 1986, she appeared in the film Crocodile Dundee as Simone, a friendly prostitute. That same year, Clarke appeared in the television series The Equalizer as Jessie Moore, the mother of Laura, played by nine year-old Melissa Joan Hart, who asks McCall for protection from an abusive ex-husband in "Torn." She returned to theater in the early 1990s, and to Broadway as Charlotte Cardoza in Titanic. From 1997 to 2000, Clarke had a reoccurring role on Law & Order as Defense Attorney Linda Walsh.

Clarke was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2000. She returned to Pittsburgh to teach theater at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Pittsburgh Musical Theater's Rauh Conservatory as well as to perform in Pittsburgh theatre until her death on September 9, 2004.

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

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

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

Caitlin Clarke television credits • Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1986 — The Equalizer — Jessie Moore — Episode: "Torn" • 1987 — Moonlighting — Elaine Johnson — 2 episodes • 1987 — Once a Hero — Emma Greely / Emma Greeley — 3 episodes • 1986 — Mayflower Madam — Virginia — TV movie • 1990 — Matlock — Sandra Townsend — Episode: "The Witness" • 1991 — Love, Lies and Murder — Sandra Eden — TV movie • 1991 — Northern Exposure — Irene Rondenet — Episode: "Only You" • 1996 — The Stepford Husbands — Lisa — TV movie • 1997–2000 — Law & Order — Defense Attorney Linda Walsh — "Menace" (S7.E11) "Juvenile" (S9.E18) "Stiff" (S10.E23) • 2000 — Sex And The City — Uptight Woman — 1 episode