Background
Glynn, Carlin was born on February 19, 1940 in Cleveland. Daughter of Guilford Cresse and Lois Carlin (Wilks) Glynn.
Glynn, Carlin was born on February 19, 1940 in Cleveland. Daughter of Guilford Cresse and Lois Carlin (Wilks) Glynn.
Glynn attended Mirabeau B. Lamar High School in Houston, Texas.
She is the mother of actress Mary Stuart Masterson. Glynn"s award-winning performance would be reprised in the 1982 revival. Glynn"s first movie appearance was as Mae Barber in Three Days of the Condor (1975).
Her other film credits include roles in Resurrection (1980), Continental Divide (1981), The Escape Artist (1982), Gardens of Stone (1987), Blood Red (1989), Night Game (1989), Convicts (1991), and Judy Berlin (1999).
A life member of The Actors Studio, Glynn made her belated but Tony-winning Broadway debut - as 1979"s Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical - portraying "Mona Stangley" in the original production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, a musical comedy adapted by Glynn"s husband and fellow Studio member, Peter Masterson, from a non-fiction article published in Playboy Magazine, in collaboration with the article"s author, Larry L. King, and songwriter Carol Hall, and developed at length in workshop performances at the Studio.
Married Peter Masterson, December 29, 1960. Children: Carlin Alexandra, Mary Stuart, Peter C.B.