Filmography:
>> Last Brickmaker in America, The (2001) (TV) .... Mrs. Potter
>> Acting 'Carrie' (2001) (V) .... Herself
>> Midwives (2001) (TV)
>> Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2000) (TV).... Herself
>> Possessed (2000) (TV) .... Aunt Hanna
>> "Partners" (1999) TV Series .... Roberta Stahler
>> Mao Game, The (1999) .... Ida Highland
>> Inherit the Wind (1999) (TV) .... Sarah Brady
>> Rage: Carrie 2, The (1999) (voice) (archive footage) ....
Margaret White
>> Palmer's Pick Up (1999) .... Evangelist
>> Faculty, The (1998) .... Mrs. Karen Olson
>> Alone (1997/I) (TV) .... Lillie Dawson
>> Christmas Memory, A (1997) (TV) .... Jenny
>> St. Patrick's Day (1997)
>> "Intensity" (1997) (mini) TV Series .... Miriam Braynard
>> In the Blink of an Eye (1996) (TV) .... Kay Trafero
>> Road to Galveston (1996) (TV) .... Wanda Kirkman
>> Crossing Guard, The (1995) .... Helen Booth
>> Grass Harp, The (1995) .... Dolly Talbo
>> Fighting for My Daughter (1995) (TV) .... Judge Edna Burton
>> Shadows of Desire (1994) (TV) .... Ellis Snow
>> "Traps" (1994/I) TV Series .... Cora Trapchek
>> Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993) .... Georgia
>> Love, Lies & Lullabies (1993) (TV) .... Margaret Kinsey
>> Trauma (1993) .... Adriana Petrescu
>> Rich in Love (1992) .... Vera Delmage
>> Storyville (1992) .... Constance Fowler
>> Other People's Money (1991) .... Bea Sullivan
>> Rising Son (1990/I) (TV) .... Martha Robinson
>> "Twin Peaks" (1990) TV Series .... Catherine Packard Martell/Mr.
Tojamura
>> Twin Peaks (1990) (TV) .... Catherine Martell
>> Dream a Little Dream (1989) .... Gena Ettinger
>> Mother, Mother (1989) .... Martha Cousins
>> Tiger Warsaw (1988) .... Frances Warsaw
>> Go to the Light (1988) (TV) .... Margo
>> Appointment with Death (1988) .... Emily Boynton
>> Distortions (1987) .... Margot Caldwell
>> Promise (1986) (TV) .... Annie Gilbert
>> Children of a Lesser God (1986) .... Mrs. Norman, Sarah's
Mother
>> Love, Mary (1985) (TV) .... Christine Groda
>> Toughlove (1985) (TV) .... Darlene Marsh
>> "Tender Is the Night" (1985) (mini) TV Series .... Mrs. Speers
>> Return to Oz (1985) .... Aunt Em Blue
>> Terror in the Aisles (1984) (archive footage) .... Margaret
White (segment "Carrie")
>> "Thorn Birds, The" (1983) (mini) TV Series .... Anne Mueller
>> Mae West (1982) (TV) .... Matilda West
>> Macbeth (1981) (V) .... Lady Macbeth
>> Bunker, The (1981) (TV) .... Magda Goebbels
>> "Skag" (1980) TV Series .... Jo Skagska
>> Skag (1980) (TV) .... Jo Skagska
>> Tim (1979) .... Mary Horton
>> Rainbow (1978) (TV) .... Ethel Gumm
>> Ruby (1977) .... Ruby Claire
>> In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan (1977) (TV) .... Julie
Quinlan
>> Woman's Rebel, A (1976) (TV) .... Margaret Sanger
>> Carrie (1976) .... Margaret White
>> Hustler, The (1961) .... Sarah Packard
>> Winterset (1959) (TV) .... Miriamne Esdras
>> Days of Wine and Roses (1958) (TV)
>> Until They Sail (1957) .... Delia Leslie
>> Kelly and Me (1957) .... Mina Van Runkel
>> Ninth Day, The (1956) (TV)
>> Road That Led Afar, The (1956) (TV)
>> Ain't Misbehavin' (1955) .... Sarah Hatfield
>> Smoke Signal (1955) .... Laura Evans
>> Johnny Dark (1954) .... Liz Fielding
>> Dangerous Mission (1954) .... Louise Graham
>> Dawn at Socorro (1954) .... Rannah Hayes
>> Mississippi Gambler, The (1953) .... Angelique 'Leia' Dureau
>> Golden Blade, The (1953) .... Princess Khairuzan
>> Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952) .... Millicent Blaisdell
>> No Room for the Groom (1952) .... Lee Kingshead
>> Son of Ali Baba (1952) .... Kiki
>> Prince Who Was a Thief, The (1951) .... Tina
>> Francis Goes to the Races (1951) .... Frances Travers
>> Milkman, The (1950) .... Chris Abbott
>> Louisa (1950) .... Cathy Norton
Mini Biography :
Piper Laurie was born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, on January
22, 1932, the daughter of a Polish immigrant and his Russian-American
wife. Her father was a furniture dealer who moved his family to Los
Angeles, California, when she was 6-years-old. Rosetta was a pretty
red-haired little girl, but very shy, so her parents sent her to weekly
elocution lessons. In addition to her lessons in Hebrew school, she
studied acting at a local acting school, and this eventually led to
work at Universal Studios.
Universal had signed her as a contract player when she was only 17-years-old,
and changed her screen name to Piper Laurie. She was cast in the movie
Louisa (1950), and became very close friends with her costar, Ronald
Reagan. She was then cast in Baba (1950) with Tony Curtis, Francis
Goes to the Races (1951) with Donald O'Connor, and Ain't Misbehavin'
(1955) with Rory Calhoun. The studio tried to enhance her image as
an ingenue with press releases stating that she took milk baths and
ate gardenia petals for lunch. Although she was making $2,000 per
week, her lack of any substantial roles discouraged her so much that
by 1955 when she received another script for a Western and 'Another
silly part in a silly movie,' she dropped the script in the fireplace,
called her agent and told him she didn't care if they fired her, jailed
her or sued her.
From there, she went to New York City ro study acting, and worked
in live television, starring in The Hallmark Hall of Fame version
of Twelfth Night, The (1957), Days of Wine and Roses, The (1958) with
Cliff Robertson, which debuted on Playhouse 90 on October 2, and as
Kirsten in the Playhouse 90 version of Winterset (1959). In 1961,
she got the part of Paul Newman's crippled girlfriend in the classic
film, Hustler, The (1961). She was nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actress for that role of Sarah Packard. That same
year, she was interviewed by a writer/reporter for the New York Herald
Tribune, Joseph Morgenstern. She liked his casual dress and lifestyle,
and 9 months later, they were married. When she did not receive any
substantial acting offers after The Hustler, she retreated with her
husband to Woodstock, New York, where she pursued domestic activities
such as baking (her grandfather's trade) and raising her only daughter,
Anne, born in 1971. In 1976, she accepted the role of Margaret White,
the eccentric religious zealot mother of a shy young psychic girl
named Carrie (1976), played by Sissy Spacek. Piper received her second
supporting Oscar nomination for this role. She and her husband divorced
in 1981, she moved to Southern California and obtained many film and
television roles.
She got a third Oscar nomination for her role as Mrs. Norman in Children
of a Lesser God, (1986), and won an Emmy that same year for her acting
in Promise (1986), a television movie with James Garner and James
Woods. She has appeared in more than 60 films, from 1950 to the present.
Ms. Laurie has appeared in many outstanding television shows from
The Best of Broadway in 1954, to roles on Playhouse 90 in 1956, roles
on St. Elsewhere, Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, Beauty and the Beast,
ER, Diagnosis Murder and Frasier. Her daughter, Anne Grace, has made
her a grandmother, and though she lives in Southern California, she
frequently visits her daughter in New York.
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