Editing CCH Pounder (section)

==Early life==
Pounder was born in [[British Guiana]] (now [[Guyana]])<ref name="elber"/> on December 25, 1952.<ref>{{cite news|date=December 25, 2004|title=Today's Birthdays|page=12A|newspaper=[[The Lewiston Tribune]]}}</ref> Her full name of Carol Christine Hilaria was given in honor of her grandmothers and godmothers.<ref name="elber"/> She was raised on a [[sugar plantation]] that her father Ronald Arlington Pounder managed.<ref name="elber">{{cite news|last=Elber|first=Lynn|date=March 13, 1995|title=CCH Pounder's name and face are eyecatchers|newspaper=[[The Bryan Times]]}}</ref> Her mother Betsy Enid Arnella (nee James) worked at the [[United States Embassy]] while the family lived in London, England.<ref name="buck">{{cite news|last=Buck|first=Jerry|date=March 23, 1990|title=Families' stories related in two-part CBS miniseries|newspaper=[[The Bulletin (Bend)|The Bulletin]]}}</ref> Pounder attended a [[Catholic]] boarding school in [[Sussex, England]].<ref name="buck"/>

She enrolled at [[Hastings College of Arts and Technology]] where Pounder studied painting, but dropped out in her first year after moving to the United States.<ref name="pounder">{{cite news|date=October 30, 1993|title=CCH Pounder in new... RoboCop 3|page=B4|newspaper=[[Baltimore Afro-American]]}}</ref> Her family had already settled in [[New York (state)|New York]] while she was attending school.<ref name="pounder"/> Pounder graduated from [[Ithaca College]] in 1975.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://alumni.ithaca.edu/pages/alumni-weekend/alumni-award-winners/cch-pounder-75-|title=CCH Pounder '75|website=[[Ithaca College]]|access-date=November 9, 2022}}</ref> Pounder stated her parents did not support her choice to be an actress, with her mother instead wanting Pounder to be a newscaster.<ref name="elber"/>