Charlotte “Charkie” Phillips is an American choreographer best known as a water ballet choreographer for television and films in the 1970s and 80s. She was born in Ohio began her dance training at the age of three in Atlanta, Georgia, and was accepted at the age of eight into the Southern Ballet Company.

In New York City she studied dance at the Ballet Russes and after moving to California she appeared as a dancer on television programs such as The Mac Davis Show, the Mitzi Gaynor Special, the Entertainer of the Year Awards. In addition to choreographing water ballet for The Krofftettes

The Krofftettes

The Krofftettes were a dance troupe, who also performed water ballet, featured on The Brady Bunch Hour from 1976 to 1977. They were the first to perform synchronized swimming as a regular feature on a prime-time network program....

 in The Brady Bunch Hour

The Brady Bunch Hour

The Brady Bunch Hour is an American variety television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft in association with CBS Television Distribution, which aired on ABC between 1976 to 1977....

, Charkie staged synchronized swimming for thirteen episodes of NBC's The Big Show

The Big Show (TV series)

The Big Show is an American comedy-variety-musical television series produced and broadcast by NBC for several months in 1980.The series aimed to revitalize the moribund variety television genre, which had been in a downward spiral since the cancellations of the Ed Sullivan Show and The Carol...

, on screen in The Great Muppet Caper

The Great Muppet Caper

The Great Muppet Caper is a 1981 mystery comedy film directed by Jim Henson. It is the second of a series of live-action musical feature films, starring Jim Henson's Muppets. This film was produced by Henson Associates, ITC Entertainment and Universal Pictures, and premiered on 26 July 1981. The...

, and for a McDonald's commercial in the 1988 Olympics. Onstage she was in the international tour of the The Ray Anthony Show as a "Bookend" and The Happy Side of the Thirties at the Shubert Theater. Charkie is also appeared as a dancer in the movie Grease

Grease (film)

Grease is a 1978 American musical film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Warren Casey's and Jim Jacobs's 1971 musical of the same name about two lovers in a 1950s high school. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway...

 and was a choreographer for The Star Wars Holiday Special

The Star Wars Holiday Special

The Star Wars Holiday Special is a 1978 American television special set in the Star Wars galaxy. It was one of the first official Star Wars spin-offs, and was directed by Steve Binder. The show was broadcast in its entirety only once, in the United States and Canada, November 17, 1978, on the U.S...

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