Carol Raye Dies: How Old Was Carol Raye When She Died?

Carol Raye was a British-born Australian multitalented entertainer.

Raye was an actress of film, television, radio and theatre, comedian, singer, dancer, and radio and television producer and director, as well as a TV network assistant and media personality.

When Raye was young, she trained as a ballet dancer, and was discovered at sixteen by choreographer and producer Freddie Carpenter, who further trained her in dance.

Raye’s career span some seven decades from the late 1930s, firstly as a film star and theatre performer in the United Kingdom in which she would star, and often dance and sing, in such movies as;

1. Song of Romance and
2. Strawberry Roan and Waltz Time.

Raye was best known as the producer and original star of the iconic TV satire The Mavis Bramston Show alongside Gordon Chater and Barry Creyton.

Raye was also widely known as a semi-regular star of soap opera Number 96 as Baroness Amanda von Pappenburg, a wealthy socialite from Heidelberg, Germany, who regularly arrives at the iconic “96” to visit her nephew Don Finlayson, portrayed by Joe Hasham.

How old was Carol Raye when she died? Sadly, Raye died on June 19, 2022 at the age of 99, a week after she was awarded an Order of Australia.