Carole White

Carole Ita White is an American actress who has worked largely in television and small film roles since the early 1970s. Born in New York City and raised in Beverly Hills, she is the daughter of the actor Jesse White and attended Arizona State University. Her first screen job was the television movie Evil Roy Slade, written by Garry Marshall, who cast her on The Odd Couple. She played Big Rosie Greenbaum on Laverne & Shirley, a recurring role she took up after a first-season appearance and played through the second and third seasons and in a seventh-season episode. She also guest starred on programs including Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Love Boat, Beverly Hills, 90210, The Wayans Bros. and Profiler, and on game shows such as The $20,000 Pyramid. Her film debut came in Up the Sandbox, followed by small roles in Falling Down, The Witches of Eastwick, Grand Canyon and The Fabulous Baker Boys.