Carrie Snodgress

Infobox actor
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name = Carrie Snodgress


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birthname = Caroline Snodgress
birthdate = birth date|1946|10|27|mf=y
location = Barrington, Illinois, United States
deathdate = death date and age|2004|04|01|1946|11|27|mf=y
deathplace = Los Angeles, California, United States
goldenglobeawards = Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1970 "Diary of a Mad Housewife"
Most Promising Newcomer - Female
1970 "Diary of a Mad Housewife"

Caroline "Carrie" Snodgress (October 27, 1946 - April 1, 2004) was a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actress.

Biography

Snodgress was born in Park Ridge, Illinois. (Two other sources cite Chicago and Barrington, Illinois as her birthplace.) She attended Northern Illinois University before leaving to pursue acting. Snodgress trained for the stage at the Goodman Theatre, in Chicago. After a number of minor TV appearances, her film debut was an uncredited appearance in "Easy Rider" in 1969 and a credited appearance in 1970 in "Rabbit, Run" opposite James Caan.

Her next film, "Diary of a Mad Housewife" (1970), garnered her a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress and two Golden Globe wins, as Best Actress in a Comedy or a Musical (an odd category, given the dramatic nature of the film) and New Star Of The Year - Actress. She left acting soon after in order to live with rock musician Neil Young and care for their son Zeke, who was born with cerebral palsy, but returned in 1978 in "The Fury". She and Neil Young split up about 1975. According to Sylvester Stallone, "The first choice for Adrian (in the movie "Rocky") was a girl named Carrie Snodgress, who I wanted badly because, at the time, I wanted Adrian’s family to be Irish and Harvey Keitel would be the brother. She said there wasn’t enough money in it (we were getting paid $360 before taxes), so I said “I’ll give you my share, I truly want you.” She passed to do a part in "Buffalo Bill and the Indians", which never happened for her." 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."

Later she and film score composer Jack Nitzsche became lovers. The relationship ended in his arrest for a violent assault on her in 1979.

Her Broadway debut came in 1981 with "A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking". She also appeared in "All the Way Home", "Oh! What a Lovely War", "Caesar and Cleopatra", "Tartuffe", "The Balcony", "The Boor", all at the Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Illinois); and "Curse of the Starving Class" at the Tiffany Theatre (Los Angeles).

Other films include "Murphy's Law", "White Man's Burden", "Pale Rider", and "Blue Sky".

Death

She was hospitalized awaiting a liver transplant when she died suddenly at age 57 of heart and liver failure in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

* "Easy Rider" (1969)
* "Diary of a Mad Housewife" (1970)
* "Rabbit, Run" (1970)
* "The Fury" (1978)
* "Love's Dark Ride" (1978)
* "The Attic" (1980)
* "Homework" (1982)
* "Trick or Treats" (1982)
* "A Night in Heaven" (1983)
* "Pale Rider" (1985)
* "Murphy's Law" (1986)
* "L.A. Bad" (1986)
* "Blueberry Hill" (1988)
* "Chill Factor" (1990)
* "Across the Tracks" (1991)
* "The Ballad of Little Jo" (1993)
* "8 Seconds" (1994)
* "Blue Sky" (1994)
* "White Man's Burden" (1995)
* "Stranger in the Kingdom" (1998)
* "Wild Things" (1998)
* "In the Light of the Moon" (2000)
* "Bartleby" (2001)
* "The Forsaken" (2001)

Television

* "Judd for the Defense" (1 episode, 1969)
* "The Virginian" (1 episode, 1969)
* "The Outsider" (1 episode, 1969)
* "The Whole World Is Watching" (1969)
* "Marcus Welby, M.D." (1 episode, 1969)
* "Silent Night, Lonely Night" (1969)
* "The Forty-Eight Hour Mile" (1970)
* "Medical Center" (1 episode, 1970)
* "The Impatient Heart" (1971)
* "Fast Friends" (1979)
* "The Solitary Man" (1979)
* "Quincy, M.E." (1 episode, 1982)
* "ABC Afterschool Special" (1 episode, 1983)
* "Nadia" (1984)
* "Highway to Heaven" (1 episode, 1984)
* "A Reason to Live" (1985)
* "" (1 episode, 1988)
* "Crossbow" (1 episode, 1988)
* "In the Heat of the Night" (1 episode, 1989)
* "The Rose and the Jackal" (1990)
* "Shades of L.A." (1 episode, 1990)
* "Equal Justice" (1 episode, 1991)
* "Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis" (1991)
* "Woman with a Past" (1992)
* "Civil Wars" (1 episode, 1992)
* "Reasonable Doubts" (1 episode, 1992)
* "The X-Files" (1 episode, 1993)
* "Murder, She Wrote" (2 episodes, 1986-1993)
* "Rise and Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story" (1994)
* "Phantom 2040" (Voice, 6 episodes, 1994-1995)
* "Chicago Hope" (1 episode, 1995)
* "Sisters" (1 episode, 1995)
* "Death Benefit" (1996)
* "All She Ever Wanted" (1996)
* "ER" (1 episode, 1998)
* "Touched by an Angel" (1 episode, 1998)
* "Judging Amy" (1 episode, 2002)
* "The West Wing" (1 episode, 2003)
* "Iron Jawed Angels" (2004)

References

* [http://www.thrasherswheat.org/friends/snodgress.htm Carrie Snodgress and Neil Young]
*"Carrie Snodgress." Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television, Volume 33. Gale Group, 2001. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

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Persondata
NAME= Snodgress, Carrie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Snodgress, Caroline
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Actress
DATE OF BIRTH= October 27, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH= Barrington, Illinois, United States
DATE OF DEATH= April 1, 2004
PLACE OF DEATH= Los Angeles, California, United States