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Date of Birth : Jul 14th 1936

Nye made her feature film debut in The Group, the 1966 film adaptation of Mary McCarthy’s bestseller about a gaggle of Vassar students, which also starred Joan Hackett, Joanna Pettet, Candice Bergen, and Kathleen Widdoes). She was featured in a number of television movies during the 1970s, including Screaming Skull and The Users.

She was nominated in 1980 for an Emmy Award for her portrayal of actress Tallulah Bankhead – an actress to whom Nye was often compared – in The Scarlett O’Hara War. That same year she returned to Broadway to perform the role of Lorraine Sheldon in The Man Who Came to Dinner. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her performance.

In 1984, Nye was cast on the daytime soap opera Guiding Light as villainous real estate agent Susan Piper. Her character had a memorable death scene where she fell into quicksand. When Nye’s friend Ellen Weston became head writer of Guiding Light in 2003, she penned another character for Nye. Despite acclaim for Nye’s performance, the storyline was unpopular and Nye’s character was written off shortly after. Nye also played Sylvia Grantham in the classic 1982 horror film Creepshow.


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Creepshow ( 1982 )

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