Laurie's 60-year career stretched from the days of 1950s Hollywood to the heights of genre film and TV
Piper Laurie has died. A veteran actor of stage, screen, and TV, Laurie is probably best remembered for her performance in Brian De Palma’s horror hit Carrie, playing all-time awful cinematic mother Margaret White.
While promoting the film, she met New York film critic Joe Morgenstern; the pair married the following year, with Laurie stepping away from acting for the next decade-plus to focus on sculpting, and the raising of the pair’s daughter, Anne. She returned in 1976, when De Palma—still just an up-and-comer nursing a Hitchcock obsession—was told she’d been interested in getting back to work, and might be up for the part of religious zealot Margaret White in his adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie.
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