Carrie Nye
Biography
Carrie Nye was an American actress who worked mostly in the theater and earned Tony, Emmy, and Drama Desk nominations. Born in Greenwood, Mississippi, she studied at the Yale School of Drama and graduated in 1959. Her association with the Williamstown Theatre Festival began in 1955, and over the following decades she took leads in plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire and The Skin of Our Teeth, also performing with the American Shakespeare Festival in Troilus and Cressida at the White House. She made her Broadway debut in 1960 in A Second String, appeared in Mary, Mary, and received a 1965 Tony nomination for Half a Sixpence. Her film debut came with The Group (1966), and later movies included Creepshow (1982), Too Scared to Scream (1984), and Hello Again (1987). On television, she was Emmy-nominated in 1980 for The Scarlett O'Hara War and later played Susan Piper on Guiding Light.
69years old at death
- Born Greenwood
- Died Manhattan
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
- Also credited as Carolyn Nye McGeoy and Carrie Nye Cavett
Movie Career
- Films
- 5
- Career span
- 21 years1966 to 1987
Every film, newest first
- 1987Hello AgainIMDb rating 5.3
- 1984Too Scared to ScreamIMDb rating 5.2
- 1982CreepshowIMDb rating 6.8
- 1974A Touch of the PoetIMDb rating 7.4
- 1966The GroupIMDb rating 6.6
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First role
Nye made her first appearance in a feature film in The Group in 1966, a movie version of the novel by Mary McCarthy.
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Worked with
Carrie Nye shares two films with Hal Holbrook, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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All films by George A. Romero
All films by Frank Perry
All films by Sidney Lumet
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