Theater, film and television actress Carrie Nye, wife of television talk show host Dick Cavett, has lost her life to lung cancer. In 1965, she was nominated for a Tony Award for the musical Half a Sixpence, and in 1980 she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Tallulah Bankhead in the television movie The Scarlett O'Hara War. Her humor and accent were often compared with that of Tallulah Bankhead.
She performed at the Williamstown Theater Festival in northern Massachusetts from 1955 until the late 1970s with leads in A Streetcar Named Desire, The Skin of Our Teeth and Nude With Violin.
"Carrie Nye will be remembered as a woman whose vibrant spirit and wonderful acting in many roles enriched the Festival," said Roger Rees, Williamstown's artistic director. "On a personal note, I fondly remember many summer afternoons spent at her home in Montauk where she reminisced about Tennessee Williams visits to the Berkshires and his great affection for the Williamstown Theatre Festival."
She appeared in films which included Creep Show and Hello Again, as well as the CBS daytime soap Guiding Light. Nye was 69.
