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Carlin Glynn

Carlin Glynn

Birth : 1940-02-19, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

History

Carlin Glynn (born February 19, 1940) is an American singer and retired Tony Award-winning actress. She was married to writer/director/actor Peter Masterson in 1960 until his death in 2018. They have 3 children: actress Mary Stuart Masterson, cinematographer Peter Masterson Jr., and former actress Alexandra 'Lexie' Masterson. She's 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.

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Carlin Glynn

Carlin Glynn

Carlin Glynn

Carlin Glynn

Movies

Judge

Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.

Pamela Evans

Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too much. In the hopes of saving Leopold's life, his theater friends come together to stage an intervention for him.

Waitress

A hitchhiker gets a ride with an oddball woman who has her husband's body in the trunk of the car.

Sally Blackwell

Finding his only escape in music, Gil Blackwell (Josh Hamilton) decides to leave his monotonous business life in Boston when his cousin dies in a car accident. Gil ignores his father's disapproval and takes the family's antique truck for the promised land of California, but on the way a chance encounter reunites him with an old college flame, Genevieve (Fried Green Tomatoes' Mary Stuart Masterson), who joins his journey.

Maddie

Judy Berlin is an aspiring actress whose idealism is at odds with her small suburban community, where a solar eclipse induces town inhabitants (a lonely housewife, a frustrated schoolteacher, and a struggling filmmaker) to search for solace and understanding in themselves and one another.

Arlene

Set on a Wisconsin dairy farm, Randi, the daughter, is trying to find a way to escape the farm, but her devotion to her family especially Clovis her younger brother is preventing her from doing that; until, that is, she met the local milk truck driver.

Margaret DeGeorgio

A five-year-old named Grace creates an imaginary friend, because her parents only pay attention to the new baby, Tony. Now at 35, his sole friend reappears to help her.

Asa

Texas writer Horton Foote's touching story set in 1902 features Robert Duvall as Sol, the hardened boss of a sugar plantation who unwittingly becomes a mentor to a young boy named Horace (Lukas Haas), who comes to Sol looking for a way to earn a living. Horace eventually learns, through his associations with Sol, Ben (James Earl Jones) and others, that life, though it isn't always fair or just, is worth rising for every day.

Alma

A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.

Miss Jeffreys

Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.

Gardens of Stone

Gardens of Stone

Mrs. Feld

A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.

The Trip to Bountiful

The Trip to Bountiful

Jessie Mae

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."

Sixteen Candles

Sixteen Candles

Brenda Baker

A teenage girl deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.

The Escape Artist

The Escape Artist

Treasurer's Secretary

The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from prison within an hour. What follows is a flashback showing his childhood with his uncle and aunt, who are 'vaudeville'-artists themselves.

Continental Divide

Continental Divide

Sylvia

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

Suzy Kroll

The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics.

Three Days of the Condor

Three Days of the Condor

Mae Barber (as Carlin Gylnn)

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.