Name
Carlin Glynn
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1940-02-19
Deathday
2023-07-13 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography
Carlin Glynn (February 19, 1940 - July 13, 2023) was an American singer and Tony Award-winning actress. She was married to writer/director/actor Peter Masterson in 1960 until his death in 2018. They had 3 children: actress Mary Stuart Masterson, cinematographer Peter Masterson Jr., and former actress Alexandra 'Lexie' Masterson.
She wa best known for her roles as Mae Barber in Three Days of the Condor (1975), Brenda Baker - mother to Molly Ringwald's character in Sixteen Candles (1984), Jessie Mae in The Trip to Bountiful (1985) (directed by her husband), First Lady Meg Tresch alongside George C. Scott's character President Samuel Tresch on FOX's TV series Mr. President, and Lady Bird Johnson on the miniseries A Woman Named Jackie.
Her other film credits include roles in Resurrection (1980), Continental Divide (1981), The Escape Artist (1982), Gardens of Stone (1987) (where her husband and daughter also had roles), Blood Red (1989), Night Game (1989), Convicts (1991), Judy Berlin (1999), and Whiskey School (2005).
A life member of The Actors Studio, she made her belated but Tony Award-winning Broadway debut - as 1979's Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical - portraying "Mona Stangley" in the original production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, a musical comedy adapted by her husband and fellow Studio member, Peter Masterson, from a non-fiction article published in Playboy, in collaboration with the article's author, Larry L. King, and songwriter Carol Hall, and developed at length in workshop performances at the Studio.
Known For
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With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Sama...
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When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a ...
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At Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam era, veteran sergeant Clell Hazard train...
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Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, ...
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A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher....
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The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape ...
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The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers ...
- 1982 The Escape Artist as Treasurer's Secretary
- 1981 Continental Divide as Sylvia
- 1999 Judy Berlin as Maddie
- 2003 Lost Junction as Waitress
- 1980 Resurrection as Suzy Kroll
- 2005 Whiskey School as Pamela Evans
- 1994 Blessing as Arlene
- 1989 Blood Red as Miss Jeffreys
- 2002 West of Here as Sally Blackwell
- 1991 Convicts as Asa
- 1992 Day-O as Margaret DeGeorgio
- 1984 Sixteen Candles as Brenda Baker
- 1985 The Trip to Bountiful as Jessie Mae
- 1987 Gardens of Stone as Mrs. Feld
- 1975 Three Days of the Condor as Mae Barber (as Carlin Gylnn)
- 1989 Night Game as Alma
- 2006 The Exonerated as Judge
- 1990 Coyote Mountain as Mother
- 1987 Mr. President ( 9 episodes ) as First Lady Meg Tresch
- 2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent ( 1 episode ) as Ella Quinn
- 1991 A Woman Named Jackie ( 2 episodes ) as Lady Bird Johnson
