Carrie Snodgress(1945-2004)
- Actress
A student of Northern Illinois University, Carrie switched to drama at
Chicago's Goodman Theatre School where she won the Sarah Siddons Award
as outstanding graduate. After graduating, Carrie worked in TV
and also appeared in TV movies. She made her big screen debut
in Rabbit, Run (1970), working with James Caan. Her next movie was Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) for which
her role as Tina Balser gave her an Academy Award nomination. With
similar Golden Globe nominations, Carrie was on the brink of stardom
when she left it all to live with rock musician Neil Young, the father of
her son, Zeke. It would be almost 8 years before she returned to the
screen as a supporting actor in Brian De Palma's The Fury (1978). After a few more
films, Carrie debuted on Broadway in the 1981 play "A Coupla White
Chicks Sitting Around Talking." She continued making movies in the
1980s, some of which were good; others were not. In the '90s, most
of Carrie's supporting actor roles are being filmed for television. One
of the big screen films which she made was the critically acclaimed
Blue Sky (1994), which was released years after being shot,and gave Jessica Lange an
Oscar. Carrie also turned up on series television in The X-Files (1993) and
Murder, She Wrote (1984).
