Carrie Snodgress
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Caroline Louise Snodgress (October 27, 1945 – April 1, 2004)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was an American actress. She is best remembered for her role in the film Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award as well as winning two Golden Globes and two Laurel Awards.
Life and careerEdit
Born in Barrington, Illinois, Snodgress attended Maine Township High School East in Park Ridge, then Northern Illinois University before leaving to pursue acting. She trained for the stage at the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (later DePaul University), graduating with a master's degree<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and earning the Sarah Siddons award as an outstanding graduate.<ref name=guardian>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After some minor TV appearances, she made her film debut in an uncredited appearance in Easy Rider in 1969, followed by a credit in 1970 for Rabbit, Run.<ref name=ctngg>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref>Template:Deadlink Her next film, Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), earned her a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress and two Golden Globe wins, as Best Actress in a Comedy or a Musical<ref name=GG>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and New Star of the Year – Actress.<ref name=GG2>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
She quit acting soon after and, in 1970, lived with musician Neil Young and their son, who was born with cerebral palsy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She returned to acting in 1978 in The Fury.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
According to Sylvester Stallone, Snodgress was the first actress considered for the role of Adrian in Rocky. However, Snodgress declined the part because it was not well-paid.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Rocky director John G. Avildsen cast Snodgress in two of his later films: A Night in Heaven and 8 Seconds.
Neil Young's song "A Man Needs a Maid" was inspired by Snodgress, featuring the lyric "I fell in love with the actress / she was playing a part that I could understand."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She also inspired the songs "Heart of Gold", "Harvest" and "Out on the Weekend" from Young's album Harvest,<ref>Template:Cite AV media</ref> as well as "Motion Pictures" from the 1974 album On the Beach. She and Young split in 1975,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and his song "Already One", which later appeared on his 1978 album Comes a Time, bookends their relationship. Later she and musician and film score composer Jack Nitzsche became lovers. Nitzsche had previously worked with Young on several albums. In 1979, Nitzsche was charged with threatening to kill her after he barged into her home and beat her with a handgun. He pleaded guilty to threatening her, was fined, and placed on three years' probation.<ref name="nytobit">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Snodgress made her off-Broadway debut in 1981 as a replacement in John Ford Noonan's A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking. That year she married painter Robert Jones, but they separated within a few years.<ref name=guardian/> She appeared in All the Way Home, Oh! What a Lovely War!, Caesar and Cleopatra, Tartuffe, The Balcony and The Boor (all at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago); and Curse of the Starving Class at the Tiffany Theatre (in Los Angeles). Other films include Murphy's Law, White Man's Burden, Pale Rider and Blue Sky. She also worked extensively in television.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In her final film, Katja von Garnier's Iron Jawed Angels (2004) about the women's suffrage movement during the 1910s, Snodgress portrayed the mother of Alice Paul, played by Hilary Swank.<ref name="nytobit"/>
DeathEdit
While waiting for a liver transplant, Snodgress was hospitalized in Los Angeles, where she died of heart failure on April 1, 2004, at age 58.<ref name="nytobit"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
FilmographyEdit
FilmEdit
TelevisionEdit
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | Judd, for the Defense | Eileen | Episode: "The Crystal Maze" |
| 1969 | Template:Sortname | Josephine Delphinia | Episode: "Crime Wave in Buffalo Springs" |
| 1969 | Template:Sortname | Janet / Diane | Episode: "The Flip Side" |
| 1969 | Template:Sortname | Megan Baker | Episode: "The Whole World is Watching" |
| 1969 | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Laura | Episode: "The White Cane" |
| 1969 | Silent Night, Lonely Night | Janet | TV movie |
| 1970 | Medical Center | Mim Hoagley | Episode: "The Deceived" |
| 1970 | Template:Sortname | Janet / Diane | TV movie |
| 1971 | Template:Sortname | Grace McCormack | TV movie |
| 1978 | Love's Dark Ride | Nancy Warren | TV movie |
| 1979 | Fast Friends | Diana Hayward | TV movie |
| 1979 | Template:Sortname | Sharon Keyes | TV movie |
| 1982 | Quincy M.E. | Mrs. Vicki McGuire | Episode: "The Face of Fear" |
| 1983 | ABC Afterschool Special | Mrs. Cranston | Episode: "Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy" |
| 1984 | Nadia | Stefania Comaneci | TV movie |
| 1984 | Highway to Heaven | Evelyn Nealy | Episode: "To Touch the Moon" |
| 1985 | Template:Sortname | Isobel Bennett | TV movie |
| 1986 | Murder, She Wrote | Connie Vernon | Episode: "If a Body Meet a Body" |
| 1988 | Friday the 13th: The Series | Dr. Viola Rhodes | Episode: "Brain Drain" |
| 1988 | Crossbow | Lady Montal | Episode: "Ladyship" |
| 1989 | In the Heat of the Night | Mrs. Kroller | Episode: "Crackdown" |
| 1990 | Template:Sortname | Joan Pinkerton | TV movie |
| 1990 | Shades of LA | Lt. Armacost | Episode: "Pointers from Paz" |
| 1991 | Equal Justice | Marla Prentiss | Episode: "Courting Disaster" |
| 1991 | Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis | Louise McVay | TV movie |
| 1992 | Woman with a Past | Mama | TV movie |
| 1992 | Civil Wars | Mary Esquavil | Episode: "Drone of Arc" |
| 1992 | Reasonable Doubts | Christine Anderson | Episode: "Try to Be Nice, What Does It Get You?" |
| 1993 | Template:Sortname | Darlene Morris | Episode: "Conduit" |
| 1993 | Murder, She Wrote | Irene Macinoy | Episode: "Love & Hate in Cabot Cove" |
| 1994 | Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story | Mrs. Byrd | TV movie |
| 1994–1995 | Phantom 2040 | Heloise Walker | Voice, Recurring role |
| 1995 | Chicago Hope | Mrs. Weber | Episode: "Every Day a Little Death" |
| 1995 | Sisters | Betty Merrill | Episode: "For Everything a Season: Part 2" |
| 1996 | Death Benefit | Virginia McGinnis | TV movie |
| 1996 | All She Ever Wanted | Alma Winchester | TV movie |
| 1998 | ER | Mrs. Lang | Episode: "A Hole in the Heart" |
| 1998 | Touched by an Angel | Judy Bowers | Episode: "Miles to Go Before I Sleep" |
| 2002 | Judging Amy | Dr. Larabie | Episode: "People of the Lie" |
| 2003 | Template:Sortname | Mrs. Martha Rowe | Episode: "Red Haven's on Fire" |
| 2004 | Iron Jawed Angels | Mrs. Paul | TV movie |
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External linksEdit
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