Carrie Nye
| Carrie Nye | |
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Nye in Mary, Mary, 1961
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| Born |
Carolyn Nye McGeoy October 14, 1936 Greenwood, Mississippi, United States |
| Died | July 14, 2006 (aged 69) Manhattan, New York, United States |
| Cause of death | Lung cancer |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1955–1987 |
| Spouse(s) | Dick Cavett (1964) |
Carrie Nye (October 14, 1936 – July 14, 2006) was an American stage and film actress. She was married to TV talk show host Dick Cavett for over 40 years.
Nye was born Carolyn Nye McGeoy in Greenwood, Mississippi; her father was a vice president of a local bank. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, then attended the Yale School of Drama, graduating in 1959.
She met Dick Cavett at the Yale School of Drama. They married in 1964. They had no children.
Carolyn Nye McGeoy Cavett acted under the name "Carrie Nye" throughout her career. Most of her work was on the stage. She joined the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1955 and portrayed a number of roles at the festival through the 1960s and 1970s. Among her credits were the leads in The Skin of Our Teeth and A Streetcar Named Desire. She was in the American Shakespeare Festival that performed Troilus and Cressida at the White House during the Kennedy administration.
She made her debut on Broadway in 1960 in A Second String. The following year she portrayed Tiffany Richards in the original cast of Mary, Mary. She received a Tony Award nomination in 1965 for her portrayal of Helen Walsingham in Half a Sixpence. She appeared in two more productions on Broadway during the 1960s, A Very Rich Woman (1965) and Cop-Out (1969).
Nye made her feature film debut in The Group (1966), the film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's novel. The film also starred Joan Hackett, Joanna Pettet, Candice Bergen, Kathleen Widdoes, and Shirley Knight. Her other film appearances included The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979), the classic horror film Creepshow (1982), Too Scared to Scream (1985), and the Shelley Long comedy Hello Again (1987).
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