---
name: "Dalene Young"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dalene-young"
fi1m_id: "dalene-young"
imdb_id: "nm0949430"
tmdb_id: 942560
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 June 1939"
died: "9 May 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-30T21:16:29.398310+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dalene Young

## Identity

Dalene Young

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dalene-young
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dalene-young
- **IMDb ID:** nm0949430
- **TMDB ID:** 942560
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0949430/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/942560

Actor. Born 29 June 1939 in Hawaii, USA. Died 9 May 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 June 1939, Hawaii, USA
- **Died:** 9 May 2025
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0949430/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/942560

## Biography

Dalene Young was an American screenwriter, producer and occasional actor. She was born on 29 June 1939 in Hawaii and died on 9 May 2025.

Young wrote the screenplays for *Little Darlings* (1980), *Cross Creek* (1983) and *The Baby-Sitters Club* (1995). She received a Daytime Emmy nomination for co-writing the 1999 Showtime special *Locked in Silence* and a Christopher Award and Humanitas Prize nomination for the 1992 NBC telefilm *Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted*. Her acting credits include the role of Jezebel in the 2021 film *Pig*.

She began her career in the New York off-off-Broadway scene and later wrote numerous television films. She was married to director Robert Martin Carroll.

*Sources: imdb.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Pig* (2021), Fi1m 82, as Jezebel — [page](https://film.one/film/pig.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Pig* (2021), as Jezebel — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/pig.md)
- *Grimm* (2011), series, as Charlotte — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/grimm.md)
- *Baby Luv* (2000), as Elizabeth · Writer, Theatre Play
- *The Last Dance* (2000), Writer
- *Going Home* (2000), Co-Producer, Teleplay
- *Silk Hope* (1999), Teleplay, Co-Producer
- *Locked in Silence* (1999), Writer
- *Cab to Canada* (1998), Teleplay, Co-Producer
- *Evidence of Blood* (1998), Teleplay
- *Journey of the Heart* (1997), Writer, Co-Producer
- *The Baby-Sitters Club* (1995), Screenplay
- *Is There Life Out There?* (1994), Writer
- *The Yarn Princess* (1994), Writer, Co-Producer
- *A Message from Holly* (1992), Teleplay, Co-Producer
- *Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted* (1992), Writer
- *Living a Lie* (1991), Teleplay, Story, Co-Producer
- *I Love You Perfect* (1989), Writer, Co-Producer
- *Sonny Boy* (1989), as Doc Wallace
- *The People Across the Lake* (1988), Story, Co-Producer, Teleplay
- *Why Me?* (1984), Writer
- *Cross Creek* (1983), Screenplay
- *Will There Really Be a Morning?* (1983), as Hairdresser · Writer
- *Little Darlings* (1982), Characters
- *Pale Horse Pale Rider* (1981), Writer
- *Marilyn: The Untold Story* (1980), Teleplay
- *Little Darlings* (1980), Screenplay
- *The Plutonium Incident* (1980), Screenplay
- *Can You Hear the Laughter? The Freddie Prinze Story* (1979), Teleplay
- *Teen Lust* (1978), as Mother
- *Deadman's Curve* (1978), Screenplay
- *Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.* (1977), Writer
- *Panic in Echo Park* (1977), Writer
- *Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn* (1977), Story
- *Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway* (1976), Writer
- *Juke Box Racket* (1960), as Betty

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