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Nancy Barrett, (born October 5, 1943) is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Carolyn Stoddard (among other characters) in the popular 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. Barrett was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, but most of her early life was spent in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
After completing high school, she entered Baylor University in Waco, Texas, but she spent her final year of college at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from UCLA, she married Ralph Pine, her agent. The couple moved to New York City, New York, where she landed the role of "Carolyn Stoddard" on the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows in June 1966. While on the show, she met David Ford, who was one of the other actors on the show. Following her divorce from Pine, Barrett and Ford married in 1967; the marriage lasted two years.
While on Dark Shadows, she appeared in two movies based on the series – House of Dark Shadows (1970) and Night of Dark Shadows (1971). The series itself was canceled in April 1971. She appeared in a total of four hundred and five episodes.
Barrett married psychiatrist Harold Kaplan in the early seventies. Throughout that decade, she appeared on numerous soaps, including The Doctors, One Life to Live, Somerset, and Ryan's Hope. She made her last onscreen appearance in 1986's Belizaire the Cajun.
In 2009, she reprised her role of Carolyn in the audio drama Curse of the Pharaoh. Barrett's husband, the aforementioned Harold Kaplan, died in late 1997. Since his passing, she appeared in a New York production of The Nutcracker, marking her ballet debut. Biography
Bien que native de la Louisiane, elle a passé la plus grande partie de sa jeunesse à Bartlesville dans l'Oklahoma. Après avoir finie le lycée, elle entre à l'université de Baylor à Waco au Texas. Elle finit sa dernière année d'études universitaires à l'UCLA de Los Angeles. Après son diplôme, elle épouse son fiancé et agent, Ralph Pine. Le couple déménage à New York. C'est là-bas qu'elle obtient le rôle de Carolyn Stoddard dans la série Dark Shadows en juin 1966. Sur le tournage, elle fait la connaissance de l'acteur David Ford qui deviendra son second époux. Après son divorce de Pine, elle l'épouse en 1967 mais le mariage ne durera pas plus de deux ans.
Après l'annulation de la série en 1971, Nancy épouse le psychiatre Harold Kaplan. Elle fera ensuite des apparitions dans d'autres soaps opéras. Elle fera sa dernière apparition sur le petit écran en 1986 dans le téléfilm Belisaire, le Cajun. À la mort de son mari en 1997, elle quitte le métier d'actrice définitivement. Elle reprendra son rôle de Carolyn Stoddard en 2009 à l'occasion de l'enregistrement d'une aventure audio intitulée Curse of the Pharaoh
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