Carrie Snodgress

Caroline Louise Snodgress (October 27, 1945 – April 1, 2004)<ref>Template:Cite 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 career

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>Template:Cite web</ref> and earning the Sarah Siddons award as an outstanding graduate.<ref name=guardian>Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite web</ref> and New Star of the Year – Actress.<ref name=GG2>Template:Cite web</ref>

She quit acting soon after and, in 1970, lived with musician Neil Young and their son Zeke, who was born with cerebral palsy.<ref>Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite 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>Template:Cite 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"/>

Death

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>

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969	Easy Rider	Woman in Commune	Uncredited
1970	Diary of a Mad Housewife	Bettina "Tina" Balser	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress Laurel Award for Best Dramatic Performance, Female Laurel Award for Star of Tomorrow, Female National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress (5th place) Nominated-Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated-BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
1970	Rabbit, Run	Janice Angstrom
1972	Journey Through the Past	appears as herself in semi-documentary
1978	Template:Sortname	Hester
1980	Template:Sortname	Louise Elmore
1982	Homework	Dr. Delingua
1982	Trick or Treats	Joan O'Keefe Adams
1983	Template:Sortname	Mrs. Johnson
1985	Pale Rider	Sarah Wheeler
1985	Rainy Day Friends	Margot
1986	Murphy's Law	Joan Freeman
1988	Blueberry Hill	Becca Dane
1989	Chill Factor	Amy Carlisle
1990	Across the Tracks	Rosemary Maloney
1993	Template:Sortname	Ruth Badger
1994	8 Seconds	Elsie Frost
1994	Blue Sky	Vera Johnson
1995	White Man's Burden	Josine
1997	Up Above the World
1998	Wild Things	Ruby
1999	A Stranger in the Kingdom	Ruth Kinneson
2000	In the Light of the Moon	Augusta Wilhelmine Gein	Alternate title: Ed Gein
2001	Bartleby	Book Publisher
2001	Template:Sortname	Ina Hamm

Television

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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