--- name: "Carrie Snodgress" canonical: "https://film.one/person/carrie-snodgress" fi1m_id: "carrie-snodgress" imdb_id: "nm0811202" tmdb_id: 44831 wikidata_id: "Q266425" roles: ["Actor"] born: "27 October 1945" died: "1 April 2004" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 82 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-26T16:52:14.276749+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Carrie Snodgress ## Identity Carrie Snodgress - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/carrie-snodgress - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** carrie-snodgress - **IMDb ID:** nm0811202 - **TMDB ID:** 44831 - **Wikidata ID:** Q266425 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Snodgress, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q266425, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0811202/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/44831 Actor. Born 27 October 1945 in Park Ridge, Illinois, USA. Died 1 April 2004. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 27 October 1945, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA - **Died:** 1 April 2004 - **Active:** 1985–1994 - **Also known as:** Caroline Louise Snodgress, Carole "Carrie" Snodgress - **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 acting, 1 other - **Golden Globes:** 2 Golden Globes (2 won) - **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 76 (1), 1980s 77 (1), 1990s 88 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Snodgress, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q266425, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0811202/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/44831 ## Fi1m on Carrie Snodgress > Carrie Snodgress gave frustrated, stoical women intelligence and feeling, with little fuss. We value her restraint, and wish *Pale Rider* had given her the space its mysterious stranger receives. In *Pale Rider* (1985), Carrie Snodgress's Sarah Wheeler is one of the people we want to know better while the film attends to Clint Eastwood's mysterious stranger. We were frustrated by how little room she gets, because the screenplay gives him attention that might have made her less familiar. This is a rewarding Western with a supporting character it ought to develop further. Snodgress gives us reason to notice the omission. The earlier work gave her a larger part to develop. Playing Tina Balser in *Diary of a Mad Housewife* (1970) brought her breakthrough, and the frustration and stoicism in that performance help explain her appeal. Her husky voice is distinctive, but the careful gradations of feeling matter more. She makes a woman enduring a constrained domestic life worth attending to without needing to overstate her unhappiness. After a long pause, she returned to film in *The Fury* (1978), playing Hester. Her dramatic scenes there have feeling and credibility. The subsequent work was largely in supporting parts and television, rather than leads on the scale of Tina Balser. Those smaller roles deserve to be judged on what she was actually given to play. *Pale Rider* makes the limitations particularly clear. Michael Moriarty's Hull Barret gives Eastwood's solemn certainty a useful counterweight, while Sydney Penny's Megan Wheeler brings feeling to scenes liable to settle for admiring the leading man. Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack's screenplay gives Snodgress less opportunity to make Sarah equally distinct. We still recommend the Western, but the supporting actors do enough to make us wish the writing had spent longer with the people asking for help. The later credits include *Blue Sky* (1994) and *Wild Things* (1998), both supporting appearances. Those titles help trace a career, but they offer less obvious starting points than the substantial early lead. Start with *Diary of a Mad Housewife* if it is Snodgress you have come to see. ## Biography Carrie Snodgress (born Caroline Louise Snodgress) was an American actress. She was born on 27 October 1945 in Barrington, Illinois, and died on 1 April 2004. She is best remembered for her leading role in the film *Diary of a Mad Housewife* (1970), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Snodgress made her film debut with an uncredited appearance in *Easy Rider* (1969). Her other film credits include *The Fury* (1978), *Pale Rider* (1985) as Sarah Wheeler, *Blue Sky* (1994) and *Wild Things* (1998). She also appeared in numerous television series, including *The X-Files*, *ER* and *The West Wing*. From 1970 to 1975 she was married to musician Neil Young, with whom she had one son. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) ### Performed in (2) — the average rests on these - *ER* (1994), Fi1m 88, as Mrs. Lang — [page](https://film.one/tv/er.md) - *Pale Rider* (1985), Fi1m 77, as Sarah Wheeler — [page](https://film.one/film/pale-rider.md) ### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *Easy Rider* (1969), Fi1m 76, as Woman in Commune (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/easy-rider.md) ## Complete filmography (57) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Iron Jawed Angels* (2004), as Mrs. Paul - *The Forsaken* (2001), as Ina Hamm - *Bartleby* (2001), as Book Publisher - *Ed Gein* (2000), as Augusta W, Gein - *The West Wing* (1999), series, as Mrs. Martha Rowe — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-west-wing.md) - *Judging Amy* (1999), series, as Dr. Larabie - *Wild Things* (1998), as Ruby - *All She Ever Wanted* (1996), as Alma - *Death Benefit* (1996), as Virginia McGinnis - *White Man's Burden* (1995), as Josine - *Touched by an Angel* (1994), series, as Judy Bowers - *ER* (1994), series, as Mrs. Lang — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/er.md) - *Chicago Hope* (1994), series, as Mrs. Weber - *Phantom 2040* (1994), series, Actor - *Blue Sky* (1994), as Vera Johnson - *Rise & Walk: The Dennis Byrd Story* (1994), as Mrs. Byrd - *8 Seconds* (1994), as Elsie Frost - *The X-Files* (1993), series, as Darlene Morris — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-x-files.md) - *The Ballad of Little Jo* (1993), as Ruth Badger - *Woman With a Past* (1992), as Mama - *Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis* (1991), as Louise McVay - *Eddie Dodd* (1991), series, Actor - *Across the Tracks* (1991), as Rosemary Maloney - *Shades of L.A.* (1990), series, Actor - *The Rose and the Jackal* (1990), as Joan Pinkerton - *Chill Factor* (1989), as Amy Carlisle - *Blueberry Hill* (1988), as Becca Dane - *Friday the 13th: The Series* (1987), series, as Dr. Viola Rhodes - *Crossbow* (1987), series, Actor - *Murphy's Law* (1986), as Joan Freeman - *Rainy Day Friends* (1985), as Margot - *Pale Rider* (1985), as Sarah Wheeler — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/pale-rider.md) - *A Reason to Live* (1985), as Isobel Bennett - *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), series, as Connie Vernon, Irene Macinoy - *Highway to Heaven* (1984), series, as Evelyn Nealy - *Nadia* (1984), as Stefania Comaneci - *Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy* (1983), as Mrs. Cranston - *A Night in Heaven* (1983), as Mrs. Johnson - *Trick or Treats* (1982), as Joan O'Keefe Adams - *Homework* (1982), as Dr. Delingua - *The Attic* (1980), as Louise Elmore - *The Solitary Man* (1979), as Sharon Keyes - *Fast Friends* (1979), as Diana Hayward - *Love’s Dark Ride* (1978), as Nancy Warren - *The Fury* (1978), as Hester - *Quincy, M.E.* (1976), series, Actor - *ABC Afterschool Special* (1972), series, as Mrs. Cranston - *The Impatient Heart* (1971), as Grace McCormack - *The 48-Hour Mile* (1970), as Diane / Janet - *Rabbit, Run* (1970), as Janice Angstrom - *Diary of a Mad Housewife* (1970), as Tina Balser - *Silent Night, Lonely Night* (1969), as Janet - *Marcus Welby, M.D.* (1969), series, as Laura - *Easy Rider* (1969), as Woman in Commune (uncredited) — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/easy-rider.md) - *The Whole World Is Watching* (1969), as Megan Baker - *The Outsider* (1968), series, Actor - *Judd, for the Defense* (1967), series, Actor ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 1971: Best Actress (nominated), for *Diary of a Mad Housewife* ### Golden Globes — 2 won - 1970: Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (won), for *Diary of a Mad Housewife* - 1970: New Star of the Year – Actress (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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