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Elaine Carroll

American actress, fictionalized Mary-Kate Olsen on the web series

Elaine Carroll is an American actress. She is best known for her role as a fictionalized Mary-Kate Olsen on the web series.

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Carroll was born in New York City, she and her family moved to Richmond, Virginia at the age of five.[1] She grew up loving all forms of the arts, and began doing plays in first grade when her class put on a production of The King and I.

“I decided I wanted to be an actor when I was 7 and I never changed my mind,” Carroll has stated.[1] At age 10, Carroll attended the School of Performing Arts in the Richmond Community.

In 2001 she graduated from Mills Godwin High School, and spent time in London while working at an Express.[1][2] She has a BFA in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College, and she studied improv and sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre where she performs regularly.[3]

In 2008 Carroll used an impression of the Olsen twins during an audition for Saturday Night Live. Carroll indicated that, “It went over really well,” but “obviously I didn’t get on the show.” She continued to do the impression, and had been doing it for about two years before making a short video called “The Olsen Twin Minute” that “featured Mary-Kate and Ashley in a talk show.” The experience led Carroll to realize she wanted to do more with the twin impression and “started trying to visualize what life is like for them. They’re rich and famous, but also kind of mysterious and private, which leaves a ton of room for the imagination.” Taking facts she already knew, such as Olsen’s use of a bodyguard and taking classes at NYU, Carroll crafted a web series that “started filling in the blanks.”[4][5] In 2010, she began to star on Very Mary-Kate, a web series she also created and wrote.

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