Caroline Placide

Caroline Placide Waring Blake ( – ) was an American stage actress.

Caroline Placide was born in in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest of five children of actors Alexandre Placide and Charlotte Wrighten Placide.

French-born Alexander Placide managed the Charleston Theatre. Caroline Placide made her stage debut there at the age of three, playing one of the title characters' children in the pantomime Medea and Jason, and appeared in many other roles in Charleston and New York City throughout her childhood.

In 1814, at the age of sixteen, she married the comic actor Leigh Waring. He died in 1816. They had one child, the actress Anne Duff Waring Sefton Wallack. In 1826, she and Blake married. Over the next four decades they performed together and managed theatres in the US and Canada.

Her last stage appearance was at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1862. She retired after her husband died the next year.