1. Carrie Louise Hamilton was an American actress, playwright and singer.
13 Facts About Carrie Hamilton
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Carrie Hamilton was the elder sister of actress Jody Hamilton and singer-producer Erin Hamilton.
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Carrie Hamilton worked in a number of productions for film, stage, television and video.
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Carrie Hamilton took the role of Reggie Higgins in the TV version of the musical Fame for the fifth and sixth seasons, and portrayed the role of Maureen Johnson in the first national tour of the stage musical Rent to considerable acclaim.
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Carrie Hamilton studied music and acting at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
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In 1992, Carrie Hamilton had a minor role in the live-action movie Cool World.
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Carrie Hamilton married musician Mark Templin in 1994 on the same sound stage where The Carol Burnett Show was videotaped.
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Carrie Hamilton played an aspiring Broadway star whose mother had made a run for Broadway fame, but failed.
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In 1999, Carrie Hamilton starred in a popular sixth-season episode of The X-Files, titled "Monday".
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Carrie Hamilton played the role of Pam, the girlfriend of a would-be bank robber, who is forced to relive the same day over and over.
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Carrie Hamilton worked with her mother to adapt Burnett's memoir, One More Time, for the stage play Hollywood Arms, but she did not live long enough to see it produced.
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Carrie Hamilton had a three-year period of heavy drug and alcohol abuse that she successfully overcame by the time she was 15.
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Carrie Hamilton died from pneumonia as a complication of lung cancer that spread to her brain in Los Angeles, California, on January 20,2002, at age 38, and is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.