1. Carolyn Nye McGeoy, known professionally as Carrie Nye, was an American actress.
16 Facts About Carrie Nye
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Carrie Nye attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, then attended the Yale School of Drama, graduating in 1959.
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Carrie Nye joined the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1955 and portrayed a number of roles at the festival through the 1960s and 1970s.
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Carrie Nye was in the American Shakespeare Festival that performed Troilus and Cressida at the White House during the Kennedy administration.
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Carrie Nye made her debut on Broadway in 1960 in A Second String.
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Carrie Nye received a Tony Award nomination in 1965 for her portrayal of Helen Walsingham in Half a Sixpence.
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Carrie Nye appeared in two more productions on Broadway during the 1960s, A Very Rich Woman and Cop-Out.
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Carrie Nye made her feature film debut in The Group, the film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's novel.
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Carrie Nye was featured in a number of television movies during the 1970s, including Screaming Skull and The Users.
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Carrie Nye acted in the television movie Divorce His, Divorce Hers, which starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
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Carrie Nye wrote a humorous essay that year published in Time about the experience.
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In 1978, Carrie Nye was a semi-regular panelist on the PBS quiz show We Interrupt This Week.
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Carrie Nye received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1980 for her portrayal of Tallulah Bankhead in the television film The Scarlett O'Hara War.
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Carrie Nye was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her performance.
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In 1984, Carrie Nye was cast on the daytime soap opera Guiding Light as Susan Piper, an unscrupulous real estate agent going to great lengths, including murder, trying to reclaim a cottage that harbors a deep secret.
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Carrie Nye died of lung cancer on July 14,2006, aged 69, at home in Manhattan.