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Caroline Vasicek

Austrian actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ1044581 ↗
Source-derived summary

Caroline Vasicek (born 19 August 1974 in Vienna) is an Austrian actress and singer.

Early life

She studied dance, drama and musicals in Vienna under Peter Weck. Her first stage role came at age ten and her first lead at twelve year. She was the narrator in a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. She played Fanny in Elisabeth (Theater an der Wien) Sandy in Grease (Vienna's Raimund Theater) and Belle in Beauty and the Beast (1995–1997).

She played the female lead role of Elena Bühringer in Franz Antel's film The Bockerer II - Austria is free. Her second film was with Charles Aznavour, Wedding in Vienna.

She performed on the Disney Musical Fantasy Gala on its Europe tour. Until the beginning of 1999 she returned to the role of Sandy Grease, this time in Düsseldorf and in its Berlin premiere (Theatre the West). For the two Disney films Arielle, the Mermaid (Austrian version) and Mulan, she sang the female lead roles.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Caroline Vasicek” is austrian actress. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Caroline, Vasicek and Austrian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1995, 1997, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-08-19. For this dossier, Caroline, Vasicek and Austrian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “austrian actress” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1044581. VIAF identifies the subject as 35653258. The Library of Congress control number is no2013097883. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1995, 1997 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Caroline Vasicek” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.