After finishing her studies at the Pasadena Playhouse, Carolyn appears on stage in the early 1950s and later in some episodes of television series.
In 1952 he made his film debut with The Turning Point a film noir that was directed by William Dieterle.
Later it appears in On the way to bali with Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope. Later he was in The Crimes of the Wax Museum with Vincent Price, and in 1953 he recorded Los Sobornados de Fritz lang.
Continuing with her work in the cinema, Carolyn also worked for the small screen, gaining greater recognition especially when in 1964 she became Morticia Addams from the popular series The Adams Family.
Full of beauty and talent, while still very young Carolyn met and fell in love with the television producer Aaron Spelling whom he married in 1953. More than twelve years later, in 1965, they divorced.
But before rising to fame on television, this beautiful actress was in other film productions with secondary characters, she appears in Desirée, where the main character made it Marlon brando, you can also see him in Temptation lives above, a comedy that directed Billy Wilder.
Acted alongside Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds in The Invasion of the Body Thieves in 1956, and that same year appears in The Man Who Knew Too Much, an intrigue film directed by the great Alfred Hitchcock.
Thanks to the success she achieved with her character as Morticia, Carolyn was moving further and further away from the movies.
When she was single again, she had an affair with Bud Moss and later married Herbert S. Greene, but they also ended up divorcing in 1977.
The following years her acting career was declining but in the same way she was in the remembered TV series Raíces which was made in 1977, where the protagonist was LeVar Burton.
More dedicated to his personal life and other projects, Jones stopped having participation in film and television. Over the years his health deteriorated until he was diagnosed with colon cancer, dying at the age of 53, the August 3, 1983.