Tony-Nominated Actress Carrie Nye Dead at Age 69

Tony-nominated actress Carrie Nye died of lung cancer on July 14 at her Manhattan home. She was 69, according to The New York Times.

Nye, born on October 14, 1936, in Greenwood, Mississippi, made her Broadway debut in 1960 in A Second String. In the early 1960s she also appeared on the Great White Way in the play Mary, Mary. In 1965 she received a Tony nomination for her featured work in Half a Sixpence. She was additionally featured on Broadway in A Very Rich Woman, Cop-Out and the 1980 revival of The Man Who Came to Dinner. Her off-Broadway credits include The Trojan Women, The White Devil and The Madwoman of Chaillot. Nye also made her mark on the stage outside of New York. She appeared in 24 Williamstown productions over 31 years, making her first appearance in 1958 as Margaret in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and her last in 1989 as Zelda Fitzgerald in Clothes for a Summer Hotel.

Nye received an Emmy nomination for playing Tallulah Bankhead in the television movie The Scarlett O'Hara War. She appeared on The Guiding Light in 1984 as one character and then in 2003 and 2004 as another character. Her big screen credits include The Group, The Seduction of Joe Tynan, Creepshow, Too Scared to Scream and Hello Again.

She is survived by her husband, actor and television host Dick Cavett.