Carrie Nye with Daniel Davis in La Rondeat the Williamstown Theatre Festival, 1985
Carrie Nye with Daniel Davis in La Ronde
at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, 1985

Phase, motion picture and tv set actress Carrie Nye died of lung cancer on Friday, July 14 at her home in Manhattan. She was 69.

Nye received a Tony Accolade nomination in 1965 for her functioning equally Helen Walsingham in the musical One-half a Sixpence. She too appeared on Broadway in A 2nd String (1960), Mary, Mary (1962), and Cop-Out (1969), a plan of 2 1-acts past John Guare. In 1980, she played Lorraine Sheldon in the Circle-in-the-Square revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner, receiving a Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

Carolyn Nye McGeoy was built-in on October 14, 1936, in Greenwood, Mississippi. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri so went to the Yale Drama School, where she met Dick Cavett. They married in 1964 and remained married until her death. Cavett is her only survivor.

Much of Nye'southward acting was done outside of New York. She first appeared with the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1955 and returned there regularly throughout her career, playing lead roles in such plays as A Streetcar Named Want, The Peel of Our Teeth, and La Ronde. With the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut, Nye appeared in Troilus and Cressida at the White House during the Kennedy administration. In later years, she performed with such companies as the New Bailiwick of jersey Shakespeare Festival in Madison, the Adelphi Festival Theater in Garden Metropolis, NY, and the Phoenix Theater Company in Purchase, NY.

Often compared to Tallulah Bankhead for her voice and style, Nye got to play the legendary extra in the 1980 tv film The Scarlett O'Hara State of war, receiving an Emmy Accolade nomination for her operation. She also appeared on TV as Marguerite Gautier in an accommodation of Tennessee Williams' X Blocks on the Camino Real that also starred Martin Sheen, Lotte Lenya, and Tom Aldredge; as Deborah Hartford in Eugene O'Neill's A Bear upon of the Poet, with Fritz Weaver, Nancy Marchand, Roberta Maxwell, and Donald Moffat; and equally Tatiana in Saying Gorky's Enemies, with Ellis Rabb, Frances Sternhagen, and Josef Sommer. She also appeared in the two-function TV motion picture Divorce His and Divorce Hers (1973), which starred Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

Nye appeared briefly on the soap opera The Guiding Calorie-free in 1984 until her character, Susan Piper, was killed off. She returned to the show in 2003 in a dissimilar role, Carrie Carruthers.

Among her motion picture credits are The Group (1966), The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979), Creepshow (1982), and Hullo Again (1987). Nye also appeared with her husband in the documentary From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall, which chronicled the rebuilding later on a disastrous 1997 fire of the Montauk firm, designed by Stanford White, in which Nye and Cavett lived since the 1960s.