Lynn Carlin

• Name — Lynn Carlin • Born — 31 January 1938 • Birthplace — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1968–1987 • Children — 2, including Dan Carlin

Lynn Carlin was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of socialite Muriel Elizabeth (née Ansley) and 'Larry Reynolds' (Laurence Kramer). Her father was a Hollywood business manager, and her mother worked in radio. She grew up in Laguna Beach. Carlin made her stage debut in The Women at the Laguna Beach Playhouse. Carlin, Robert Altmans secretary-turned-actress, earned her only Academy Award nomination in 1968 for her first feature role as John Marley's suicidal wife Maria in John Cassavetes' 'Faces' (1968). She is the first nonprofessional to be nominated for an Academy Award. She subsequently played wives and mothers before retiring in 1987. She next appeared in...tick...tick...tick... (1970) as George Kennedy's ambitious, henpecking wife and returned to offbeat roles as Buck Henry's wife, searching for her missing daughter amid the hippies and drug culture of 1970s New York in Miloš Forman's Taking Off (1971). The same year, she appeared in Blake Edwards' western Wild Rovers. In 1972, she was re-teamed with John Marley, again as his wife, in Bob Clark's horror film Deathdream, and her other film roles include the British drama film Baxter! (1973) as the mother of Scott Jacoby, the 1979 comedy French Postcards, and the 1982 horror film Superstition. Carlin played the parent of growing teen Lance Kerwin in the TV-movie James at 15 (1977) and its subsequent spin-off James at 16. In 1977, she was cast in several episodes of The Waltons as a nurse who marries the county sheriff. She appeared in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, and she had a recurring role on the short-lived television series Strike Force (1981–1982). She appeared in several other TV movies, including Silent Night, Lonely Night. In 1972, Carlin appeared in an episode of Gunsmoke titled "Milligan" as the wife of Harry Morgan's character. In 1971, she played the mother of teenage father Desi Arnaz Jr. in Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones. The same year, she played Peter Falk's wife in A Step Out of Line. In 1974, Carlin appeared in both Terror on the 40th Floor and The Morning After. She played the wife of Sam Houston in the biopic The Honorable Sam Houston in 1975. The following year, she played Eve Plumb's mother in Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. In her last television movie, Carlin played the mother of three young men manipulated into breaking their father (Robert Mitchum) out of jail in A Killer in the Family (1983). Her last acting role was a guest appearance on Murder, She Wrote in 1987 as the wife of the episode's murder victim, played by Cornel Wilde.

Carlin was married to Peter Hall from 1958 until their divorce in 1960. Her second marriage was to Edward Carlin, with whom she had two children. This union (1963–74) also ended in divorce. Her oldest child is podcaster/journalist Dan Carlin. She was married to John Wolfe from 1983 until his death in 1999.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1969 — Marcus Welby, M.D. — Helen Stewart — Season 1 Episode 2: "The Foal" • 1969 — Silent Night, Lonely Night — Jennifer Sparrow — TV Movie • 1969–1972 — Medical Center — Ruth Dwyer / Louise Nolan — 2 episodes • 1970 — The — Sister Marie Theresa — Season 1 Episode 5: "A Thing Not of God" • 1971 — A Step Out of Line — Linda Connors — TV Movie • 1971 — Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones — Christine Jones — ABC Movie of the Week • 1971 — The — Meredith Lindon — Season 3 Episode 6: "The Glass Cage" • 1971 — Cannon — Helen Kern — Season 1 Episode 13: "The Nowhere Man" • 1972 — Gunsmoke — Janet Milligan — Season 18 Episode 9: "Milligan" • 1972 — Love, American Style — Ruth — Season 4 Episode 11: "segment: Love and the Swinging Philosophy" • 1972 — Emergency! — Mrs. Patterson — Season 2 Episode 10: "Dinner Date" • 1972 — Young Dr. Kildare — Laura Henderson — Episode: "The Stranger" • 1973 — Ironside — Mary Jane Smith — Season 7 Episode 1: "Confessions: From a Lady of the Night" • 1973 — Hawaii Five-O — Maxine Taylor — Season 6 Episode 11: "The Finishing Touch" • 1974 — The — Fran Lester — ABC Movie of the Week • 1974 — The — Sarah Abelman — ABC Movie of the Week • 1974 — Terror on the 40th Floor — Lee Parker — TV Movie • 1974 — Petrocelli — Audrey North — Season 1 Episode 4: "Edge of Evil" • 1974 — Mannix — Nancy Traherne — Season 8 Episode 6: "Death Has No Face" • 1974 — Lucas Tanner — Ann Lefferts — Season 1 Episode 9: "Look the Other Way" • 1974 — Paper Moon — Sue Jean — Season 1 Episode 11: "Who Is M. P. Sellers?" • 1974–1980 — Insight — Jean / Helen Madden / Marge / Betty / Janet / Betty — 6 episodes • 1975 — The — Margaret Houston — TV Movie • 1975 — The — Nancy Royce — TV Movie • 1975–1977 — The — Eula Mae / Sara Griffith Bridges — 5 episodes • 1976 — City of Angels — Cora Manning — Season 1 Episode 5: "A Lonely Way to Die" • 1976 — The — Barbara — TV Movie • 1976 — Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway — Dawn's Mother — TV Movie • 1976 — Rich Man, Poor Man Book II — Sarah Hunt — Season 1 Episode 7: "Chapter VII" • 1976 — Serpico — Viveca Janes — Season 1 Episode 15: "A Secret Place" • 1977 — Bravo Two — Mrs. Morgan — TV Movie • 1977 — Gibbsville — Season 1 Episode 13: "The Grand Gesture" • 1977–1978 — James at 15 — Meg Hunter — Series regular • 1978 — The — Norma Fisk — Season 3 Episode 15: "The Martians Are Coming, the Martians Are Coming" • 1979 — Not Until Today — Mae Henderson — TV Movie • 1979 — The — Elizabeth Collins — Season 3 Episode 3: "Brain Child" • 1979 — Barnaby Jones — Mary Baines — Season 8 Episode 5: "Design for Madness" • 1979 — California Fever — Mrs. Newman — Season 1 Episode 6: "Portrait of Laurie" • 1979 — Charlie's Angels — Warden Ingram — Season 4 Episode 6: "Caged Angel" • 1979 — Mrs. Columbo — Sheree — Season 2 Episode 3: "Off the Record" • 1980 — Tenspeed and Brown Shoe — Alice Rynkoff — Season 1 Episode 13: "The Treasure of Sierra Madre Street" • 1980 — Lou Grant — Catherine Marks — Season 4 Episode 2: "Harassment" • 1980–1985 — Trapper John, M.D. — Rose Tiegs / Claire Dearborne — 3 episodes • 1981 — Girl on the Edge of Town — Selma Mantley — TV Movie • 1981 — Strike Force — Lorraine Klein — 2 episodes • 1981 — Darkroom — Mrs. Shires — Season 1 Episode 11: "Catnip" • 1982 — The — Molly Edward — TV Movie • 1982 — Forbidden Love — Ella Wagner — TV Movie • 1983 — A Killer in the Family — Dorothy Tison — TV Movie • 1987 — Murder, She Wrote — Nicole — Season 4 Episode 5: "The Way to Dusty Death" • 2021 — Consequences — Churchgoer — Season 2 Episode 3: "Leap of Faith"

Lynn Carlin was recorded at birth as ম্যারি লিন রেনল্ডস. Her recorded language was English. One child is recorded: Dan Carlin.