Carlin Glynn

Carlin Glynn

Born: February 19, 1940
Died: July 13, 2023
in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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.

Movies for Carlin Glynn...

The Exonerated
Title: The Exonerated
Character: Judge
Released: March 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.
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Whiskey School
Title: Whiskey School
Character: Pamela Evans
Released: September 11, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Lost Junction
Title: Lost Junction
Character: Waitress
Released: February 14, 2003
Type: Movie
A hitchhiker gets a ride with an oddball woman who has her husband's body in the trunk of the car.
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West of Here
Title: West of Here
Character: Sally Blackwell
Released: June 9, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Ella Quinn
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Judy Berlin
Title: Judy Berlin
Character: Maddie
Released: October 6, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Blessing
Title: Blessing
Character: Arlene
Released: January 20, 1994
Type: Movie
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.
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Day-O
Title: Day-O
Character: Margaret DeGeorgio
Released: May 3, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: A Woman Named Jackie
Character: Lady Bird Johnson
Released: October 13, 1991
Type: TV
This biographical miniseries, based on the best seller by C. David Heymann, starts when Jackie Kennedy was working after college; and spans her life through the Presidency of John F. Kennedy and her marriage to Aristotle Onassis after the assassination of President Kennedy.
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Convicts
Title: Convicts
Character: Asa
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty old Confederate who owns the plantation and depends on convict labor to keep his farm running, takes a liking to Horace. However, Soll is aging and sinking into senility, making the possibility of Horace ever getting his pay increasingly unlikely. On Christmas Eve, as Soll becomes obsessed with his own mortality, he makes a grand promise... forcing Horace to confront his fear of death and the harsh truths of a decadent society.
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Night Game
Title: Night Game
Character: Alma
Released: September 15, 1989
Type: Movie
A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.
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Blood Red
Title: Blood Red
Character: Miss Jeffreys
Released: August 18, 1989
Type: Movie
Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.
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Gardens of Stone
Title: Gardens of Stone
Character: Mrs. Feld
Released: May 5, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Mr. President
Character: First Lady Meg Tresch
Released: May 3, 1987
Type: TV
Mr. President is a United States television series starring George C. Scott that premiered on May 3, 1987. It was part of the Fox Broadcasting Company's premiere season of prime time entertainment, alongside Married... With Children, The Tracey Ullman Show, and Duet.
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The Trip to Bountiful
Title: The Trip to Bountiful
Character: Jessie Mae
Released: December 20, 1985
Type: Movie
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."
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Sixteen Candles
Title: Sixteen Candles
Character: Brenda Baker
Released: May 4, 1984
Type: Movie
With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake, but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior. Meanwhile, she must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy Ted, who is unfortunately the only boy in school who seems to take an interest in her.
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The Escape Artist
Title: The Escape Artist
Character: Treasurer's Secretary
Released: May 28, 1982
Type: Movie
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.
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Continental Divide
Title: Continental Divide
Character: Sylvia
Released: September 18, 1981
Type: Movie
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
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Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Character: Suzy Kroll
Released: September 26, 1980
Type: Movie
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.
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Three Days of the Condor
Title: Three Days of the Condor
Character: Mae Barber (as Carlin Gylnn)
Released: August 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.