Karen Dotrice

Karen Dotrice

Active - 1963 - 2024  |   Birth - Nov 9, 1955  |   Genres - Comedy, Family, Documentary, Fantasy, Music | Subgenres - Musical, Family Film, Historical Film, Biographical Film, Comedy Thriller

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Karen Dotrice is a British actress, known primarily for her role as Jane Banks in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins, the feature film adaptation of the Mary Poppins book series. Dotrice was born in Guernsey to two stage actors. Her career began on stage, and expanded into film and television, including starring roles as a young girl whose beloved cat magically reappears in Disney's The Three Lives of Thomasina and with Thomasina co-star Matthew Garber as one of two children pining for their parents' attentions in Poppins. She appeared in five television programmes between 1972 and 1978, when she made her only feature film as an adult. Her life as an actress concluded with a short run as Desdemona in the 1981 pre-Broadway production of Othello.

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