Lynn Carlin

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Lynn Carlin (born January 31, 1938 in Los Angeles , California ; actually Lynn Kramer ) is an American actress .

biography

Lynn Carlin was born in 1938 (1930 according to other sources) as Lynn Kramer, daughter of Hollywood businessman Laurence Kramer and Muriel Elizabeth Reynolds. She grew up in her native Los Angeles, attended Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa and Immaculata College in Pennsylvania . Her acting studies later led her to the renowned London Stanislavsky Studio, whose namesake was the actor and director Konstantin Stanislawski (1863-1938). The Russian developed the Stanislavski system named after him that established the American method acting . Lynn Carlin made her theatrical debut in Clare Booth Luce's comedy The Women at the Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach . She married Edward Carlin in 1963, whose name she took and worked as the secretary of the later famous director Robert Altman in the television studio Screen Gems . It was then that she met actor John Cassavetes , who, after his experimental film drama Shadows and Bad Experiences in Hollywood, was working on the script on Faces , which focuses on an estranged middle-class couple. Carlin often read the script against, and after losing her job at Altman, she cast Cassavetes in 1968 alongside John Marley and Gena Rowlands in Faces . The film, shot in the director's house in Los Angeles, established Cassavete's reputation as a young, innovative filmmaker and father of American independent film . His reckoning with the soulless, materialistic American middle class was a great success with critics and was already awarded at the premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 1968. At the 1969 Academy Awards , Faces was represented with three nominations, but remained unprofitable. In addition to Cassavete's screenplay and supporting actor Seymour Cassel , Lynn Carlin's performance as a suicidal housewife was also considered, but she lost the Oscar for best supporting actress of the year to her compatriot Ruth Gordon ( Rosemary's Baby ).

Lynn Carlin made her film debut as Maria Forst in Faces , for whose “depth and truth” she was praised by the well-known American film critic Roger Ebert , but also repeatedly subscribed to the part in the following film and television projects of the wife and mother. She embodied this in the television films In a Night Like This (1969) and A Step Out of Line (1971) alongside such well-known mimes as Lloyd Bridges or Peter Falk , while in Ralph Nelson's cinema production ... tick ... tick ... tick (1970) George Kennedy was her film husband. Carlin was only able to build on the success of her first film role in 1971 with the musical tragicomedy Taking Off . In the first US cinema production by the young Czechoslovak filmmaker Miloš Forman , the actress and Buck Henry portrayed the typical American suburban family who turned their daughter's disappearance upside down. The two parents go in search of their child, come into contact with hippies and the local drug culture and end up at a chaotic meeting of a New York association for wanted children. The New York Times praised Carlin for her comedic talent as a legitimate actress and the role of Lynn Tyne brought her 1972, a nomination for best actress for the British Film Awards one which, however, at Glenda Jackson ( Sunday, Bloody Sunday was awarded). After that, Carlin was hardly able to set an acting accent with her film roles in Missouri (1971), Baxter and the Raven Mother (1973) or the horror film Dead of Night, which was critical of the Vietnam War . She turned increasingly to work on television and excelled in 1974 as the wife of Dick Van Dyke in the alcoholic drama The Morning After , which mostly featured one-off guest appearances in well-known television series such as The Seven Million Dollar Woman (1978), Three Angels for Charlie (1979) or Trapper John, MD (1980, 1985) followed. After a guest appearance in the well-known crime series Mord ist ihr Hobby (1987), in which Carlin was seen as the wife and murder suspect of Cornel Wilde , she ended her acting career.

The marriage with Edward Carlin was divorced in 1974. Their daughter Ansley and son Daniel emerged from her. Lynn Carlin has been married to John Wolfe since 1983.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1968: Faces ( Faces )
  • 1969: On a night like this ( Silent Night, Lonely Night , TV)
  • 1970: ... tick ... tick ... tick ... ( ... tick ... tick ... tick ... )
  • 1971: Taking Off
  • 1971: Missouri ( Wild Rovers )
  • 1971: A Step Out of Line
  • 1973: Baxter and the Bad Mother ( Baxter! )
  • 1974: The Morning After ( The Morning After , TV)
  • 1974: Dead of Night
  • 1974: Skyscraper in Flames ( Terror on the 40th Floor , TV)
  • 1975: The Tenth Stage ( The Tenth Level , TV)
  • 1976: Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (TV)
  • 1978: At fifteen you still have dreams ( James at 15 , TV)
  • 1978: The Bionic Woman ( The Bionic Woman , television series)
  • 1979: Who else goes to university? ( French Postcards )
  • 1979: Charlie's Angels ( Charlie's Angeles , TV series)
  • 1982: The Witch ( Superstition )
  • 1983: A Killer in the Family ( A Killer in the Family , TV)
  • 1987: Murder is Her Hobby ( Murder, She Wrote , TV series)

Awards

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. Profile at allemovie.com
  2. ↑ cf. Faces . In: Schneider, Steven Jay (Ed.): 1001 Films - The best films of all time . Zurich: Olms, 2005. - ISBN 3-283-00525-7
  3. ↑ cf. Ebert, Roger: Faces . In: Chicago Sun-Times, December 19, 1968
  4. ↑ cf. Canby, Vincent: The Screen: 'Taking Off': Milos Forman Directs a Charming Farce , March 29, 1971
personal data
SURNAME Carlin, Lynn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kramer, Lynn; Reynolds, Lynn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , USA