Carol Mayo Jenkins is most well known for playing Elizabeth Sherwood, a liberal and stern but fair-minded English teacher at New York City's High School for the Performing Arts on Fame. She left the show at the end of its fifth season in 1986 but made a return for the series finale a year later.

 

She also appeared in the television shows Aaron's Way, Matlock, and Max Headroom.

 

As of July 2020, she teaches acting at the University of Tennessee, where she appears frequently on the Clarence Brown Theatre stage.