Carol Mayo Jenkins

Carol Mayo Jenkins (born November 24, 1938) is an American actress who is most famous for playing Elizabeth Sherwood, a liberal and stern but fair-minded English teacher at New York City's High School for the Performing Arts on the T.V. series Fame.^[1][2][3] She left the show at the end of its fifth season in 1986 but made a return for the series finale a year later.

Carol Mayo Jenkins
Jenkins in 1977
Born	(1938-11-24) November 24, 1938 (age 86) Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Known for	Fame

She also appeared in the television shows Aaron's Way, Matlock, and Max Headroom.^[4][5]

As of July 2020^[update], she teaches acting at the University of Tennessee,^[6] where she appears frequently on the Clarence Brown Theatre stage.^[7]

She retired from the University of Tennessee in September, 2023.^[8][9]

Work

Film

Year	Title	Role	Ref
1983	Happy Endings	Jan Wilkerson	[10]
1990	Hollywood Heartbreak	Lottie	[5]
1992	Seduction: Three Tales From the Inner Sanctum		[5]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
1977	Another World	Vera Finley		[4]
1982-1987	Fame	Elizabeth Sherwood		[5]
1987	Max Headroom	Valerie Towne	1 Episode	[4]
1988	Aaron's Way	Mrs. Seward	1 Episode	[5][4]
1991	Matlock	Dr. Doris Massler	1 Episode	[11]

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Ref
1969	The Three Sisters	Natalya Ivanovna	[12]
1972	There's One in Every Marriage	Hotel Guest	[12]
1976	Kings	Jocasta	[12]
1978	First Monday in October	Miss Birnbaum	[12]
1980	The Suicide	Margarita Ivanovna	[12]