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''. She left the show at the end of its fifth season in 1986 but made a return for the series finale a year later. She also appeared in the

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shows ''

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'', '' Matlock'', and ''

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''. , she teaches acting at the

University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (officially The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; or UT Knoxville; UTK; or UT) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, ...

, where she appears frequently on the Clarence Brown Theatre stage.

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* * 1938 births Living people American television actresses 20th-century American actresses University of Tennessee faculty People from Knoxville, Tennessee Actresses from Tennessee American women academics 21st-century American women {{US-screen-actor-1930s-stub