Carlin Glynn
Date of birth: 1940-02-19
Place of birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Carlin Gylnn
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
The Escape Artist
1982-05-28
The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from priso
Continental Divide
1981-09-18
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Judy Berlin
1999-10-06
Judy Berlin is an aspiring actress whose idealism is at odds with her small suburban community, wher
Lost Junction
2003-02-14
A hitchhiker gets a ride with an oddball woman who has her husband's body in the trunk of the car.
Resurrection
1980-09-26
The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she h
Whiskey School
2005-09-11
Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too
Blessing
1994-01-20
Set on a Wisconsin dairy farm, Randi, the daughter, is trying to find a way to escape the farm, but
Blood Red
1989-08-18
Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industria
West of Here
2002-06-09
Finding his only escape in music, Gil Blackwell (Josh Hamilton) decides to leave his monotonous busi
Convicts
1991-01-01
In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the
Day-O
1992-05-03
A five-year-old named Grace creates an imaginary friend, because her parents only pay attention to t
Sixteen Candles
1984-05-04
With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces
The Trip to Bountiful
1985-12-20
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with
Gardens of Stone
1987-05-05
At Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam era, veteran sergeant Clell Hazard trains young so
Three Days of the Condor
1975-09-24
When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he h
Night Game
1989-09-15
A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each ga
The Exonerated
2006-03-06
Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penal
Coyote Mountain
1990-01-01
Deals with the efforts of Native Americans to preserve their culture in the face of that of the majo