Piper Laurie Biography

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Piper Laurie (born January 22, 1932) is an American actress.

Born Rosetta Jacobs to a Jewish family in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Los Angeles when she was young. She signed a contract with Universal Studios when she was 17, co-starring with Ronald Reagan (whom she dated a couple of times before his marriage to Nancy Davis) in Louisa.

Dissatisfied with the work she was being offered in Hollywood, Laurie went to New York City in 1955 to work on the live television programs of the 1950s. She starred in such productions as Twelfth Night and Days of Wine and Roses. In 1961 she returned to Hollywood to star opposite Paul Newman in The Hustler, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Sarah Packard, the crippled love interest for Newman's "Fast Eddie" Felson.

In 1965, she starred in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie opposite Maureen Stapleton, Pat Hingle and George Grizzard. She wouldn't star in another Broadway production for 37 years, when she appeared in Lincoln Center's acclaimed revival of Paul Osborn's Morning's At Seven with Julie Hagerty, Buck Henry, Frances Sternhagen and Estelle Parsons.

In the 1960s, once again disenchanted with the work available, Laurie returned to semi-retirement to raise a family. She appeared in the Australian film Tim (1979) opposite a very young Mel Gibson (in which she can be credited in doing the first sex scene on screen that he was in). But perhaps her most famous role in her later career was in Brian De Palma's Carrie, as the title character's fanatically religious mother, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She first turned down the role because she didn't know how to play it, but later realized that it was a dark comedy; She ruined several shots because she couldn't stop laughing. Twenty years later, she reunited with co-star Sissy Spacek when they played sisters in a screen adaptation of Truman Capote's The Grass Harp.

She received another Academy Award Supporting Actress nomination, in 1987, for Children of a Lesser God, in which she played Marlee Matlin's mother.

Laurie also starred as the devious Catherine Martell in David Lynch's television series Twin Peaks. Following the character's supposed death in a mill fire at the end of the first season, the actress (under heavy makeup) returned as "Fumio Yamaguchi," playing the mysterious Mr. Tojamura, who would eventually be revealed to be Catherine Martell in disguise. She received two Emmy Award nominations for her work on the series.

Previously, she won an Emmy Award, for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special, for her role in the 1986 TV movie Promise opposite James Garner and James Woods. In addition, she received several Emmy nominations, including one for playing Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels, in The Bunker, opposite Anthony Hopkins as Hitler. She also received another Emmy nomination for the popular miniseries The Thorn Birds.

She also appeared in horror maestro Dario Argento's first American film Trauma, along with the director's daughter Asia Argento.

Selected Filmography

• Eulogy (2004)
  
• The Faculty (1998)
  
• The Grass Harp (1995)
  
• Fighting For My Daughter (1995)
  
• Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
  
• Trauma (1993)
  
• Storyville (1992)
  
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me(1992) (her scenes were deleted from the final cut)
  
• Twin Peaks (1990)
  
• Appointment With Death (1988)
  
• Children Of A Lesser God (1986)
  
• Return to Oz (1985)
  
• The Thorn Birds (1983)
  
• Tim (1979)
  
• Ruby (1977)
  
• Carrie (1976)
  
• The Hustler (1961)
  

External Links

• PIPER LAURIE TRIBUTE PAGE
  

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  2. Carrie White: It's pink, Mama.
  3. Carrie White: Look what Tommy gave me, Mama. Aren't they beautiful?
  4. Margaret White: I can see your dirty pillows. Everyone will.
  5. Carrie White: Breasts, Mama. They're called breasts, and every woman has them.
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• 1. Margaret White: Give me your sweatshirt.
  2. Carrie White: No mama.
  3. Margaret White: We'll burn it together and pray for forgiveness.
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• 1. Carrie White: I didn't sin, Mama.
  2. Margaret White: First sin was intercourse, first sin was intercourse, first sin was intercourse.
  3. Carrie White: And the first sin was intercourse. Mama I was so scared, I thought I was dying. And the girls all laughed at me.
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• 1. Margaret White: Witch! Got Satan's power.
  2. Carrie White: It got nothing Satan mama. It's me, Me! If I concentrate hard enough, I can move things.
  3. Margaret White: Ain't this clever?
  4. Carrie White: Mama, I'm not the only one. Other people can do it, I read about it!
  5. Margaret White: I have one child, do you know he doesn't let you know He's working through you?
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  7. Margaret White: He ended your father and carried him off.
  8. Carrie White: He ran away Mama. He ran away with a woman, Mama. Everybody knows that.
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• 1. Carrie White: I've accepted it, Mama! I've accepted, I've accepted it!
  2. Margaret White: Come to your closet!
  3. Carrie White: No!
  4. Margaret White: After all you've been taught?
  5. Carrie White: Everyone ain't bad, mama! Everything isn't a sin!
  6. Margaret White: Come to your closet and pray asked to be forgiven.
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• 1. Margaret White: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
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• 1. Mrs. Snell: Mrs. White, I'd like to contribute five, ten dollars.
  2. Margaret White: I see. I pray you find Jesus.
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• 1. Margaret White: Witch. Got Satan's Power.
  2. Carrie White: It has nothing to do with Satan, Mama. It's me. Me. If I concentrate hard enough, I can move things.
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• 1. Margaret White: Carrie, you haven't touched your apple cake.
  2. Carrie White: It gives me pimples, Mama.
  3. Margaret White: Pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you.
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• 1. Margaret White: I should've killed myself when he put it in me. After the first time, before we were married, Ralph promised never again. He promised, and I believed him. But sin never dies. Sin never dies. At first, it was all right. We lived sinlessly. We slept in the same bed, but we never did it. And then, that night, I saw him looking down at me that way. We got down on our knees to pray for strength. I smelled the whiskey on his breath. Then he took me. He took me, with the stink of filthy roadhouse whiskey on his breath, and I liked it. I liked it! With all that dirty touching of his hands all over me. I should've given you to God when you were born, but I was weak and backsliding, and now the devil has come home. We'll pray.
  2. Carrie White: Yes.
  3. Margaret White: We'll pray. We'll pray. We'll pray for the last time. We'll pray.
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• 1. Margaret White: (reading to Carrie from her bible) And Eve was weak, say it!
  2. Carrie White: No!
  3. Margaret White: Eve was weak!
  4. Carrie White: No!
  5. Margaret White: Eve was weak, say it woman!
  6. Carrie White: No!
  7. Margaret White: Say it!
  8. Carrie White: Eve was weak, Eve was weak.
  9. Margaret White: And the Lord visited Eve with the curse, and the curse was the curse of blood!
  10. Carrie White: You should have told me, Mama! You should have told me!
  11. Margaret White: (kneels down and grabs Carrie's hand) Oh, Lord! Help this sinning woman see the sin of her days and ways. Show her that if she had remained sinless, this curse of blood would never have come on her!
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• 1. Margaret White: Go to your closet.
  2. Carrie White: No!
  3. Margaret White: After all you've been taught, Carrie?
  4. Carrie White: Everyone isn't bad, Mama! Everything isn't a sin!
  5. Margaret White: Go to your closet and pray, ask to be forgiven.
  From Carrie. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Margaret White: These are godless times, Mrs. Snell.
  2. Mrs. Snell: I'll drink to that.
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• 1. Margaret White: (referring to Carrie's prom gown) Red. I might have known it would be red.
  2. Carrie White: It's pink, Mama. (Shows a corsage) Look what Tommy gave me, Mama. Aren't they beautiful?
  3. Margaret White: I can see your dirty pillows. Everyone will.
  4. Carrie White: Breasts, Mama. They're called breasts, and every woman has them.
  From Carrie. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

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• 1. Margaret White: They're all going to laugh at you.
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