Charles Carroll

Charles Carroll was born Daniel Patrick Charles Carroll in Los Angeles, CA to a Catholic family with Irish and Scottish ancestry. He grew up in Manhattan Beach; he attended Our Lady Queen of Angels Seminary and later Junipero Serra High School. He received academic scholarships from the State of California and the Copley Foundation, and studied Theatre at Loyola University, graduating in 1974. He gratefully accepted the opportunity to study abroad when actor Carroll O'Connor and Los Angeles attorney Charles Prince provided an acting scholarship to pursue his professional training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Returning to the U.S., he toured as Alexander Hamilton in a production of Jefferson vs. Hamilton, the story of the famous disagreements on the financial structure of our country, a play that he co-authored. In 1979, he opened the Los Angeles Garden Theater Festival at the University of Southern California with the premiere of his own one-man show on the life o