Carlin Glynn
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.
Sixteen Candles
as Brenda BakerWith the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha...
Movie pageThree Days of the Condor
as Mae Barber (as Carlin Gylnn)A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until...
Movie pageContinental Divide
as SylviaA hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Movie pageGardens of Stone
as Mrs. FeldA sergeant; stationed in Arlington, Virginia in the late 1960s; must deal with his desires to...
Movie pageResurrection
as Suzy KrollThe story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that...
Movie pageConvicts
as AsaIn 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for...
Movie pageBlood Red
as Miss JeffreysSet in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from...
Movie pageNight Game
as AlmaA police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after...
Movie pageThe Escape Artist
as Treasurer's SecretaryThe young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from...
Movie pageDay-O
as Margaret DeGeorgioA five-year-old named Grace creates an imaginary friend, because her parents only pay attention...
Movie pageThe Trip to Bountiful
as Jessie MaeCarrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas...
Movie pageJudy Berlin
as MaddieJudy Berlin is an aspiring actress whose idealism is at odds with her small suburban community,...
Movie pageThe Exonerated
as JudgeSix people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death...
Movie pageLost Junction
as WaitressA hitchhiker gets a ride with an oddball woman who has her husband's body in the trunk of the car.
Movie pageBlessing
as ArleneSet on a Wisconsin dairy farm, Randi, the daughter, is trying to find a way to escape the farm,...
Movie pageWest of Here
as Sally BlackwellFinding his only escape in music, Gil Blackwell (Josh Hamilton) decides to leave his monotonous...
Movie pageLaw & Order: Criminal Intent
as Ella QuinnThe third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its...
TV Show pageA Woman Named Jackie
as Lady Bird JohnsonThis biographical miniseries, based on the best seller by C. David Heymann, starts when Jackie...
TV Show pageMr. President
as First Lady Meg TreschMr. President is a United States television series starring George C. Scott that premiered on...
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