Born in New York, Carol Higgins Clark obtained her B.A. from Mt. Holyoke College. She then studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. She starred in "Who Killed Amy Lang?", a mini-mystery aired on Good Morning America (1975) and performed in New York's Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall) in Wendy Wasserstein's play "Uncommon Women and Others", produced as part of the 21st Century Playwrights Festival. She was the lead in the film, Mary Higgins Clark: En mémoire de Caroline (1992), based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark. The film was shown at the Cannes TV Festival and the Montreal Film Festival and nationally on U.S. television.