Nancy Barrett

About Nancy Barrett

Who is it?: Actress
Birth Day: October 05, 1943
Birth Place:  Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
Birth Sign: Scorpio
Occupation: Actress
Years active: 1966–present
Spouse(s): Ralph Pine David Ford Harold Kaplan Stuart S. Leichter

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Nancy Barrett was born on October 05, 1943 in  Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, is Actress. Barrett was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and she grew up in Oklahoma. Like many youngsters who would go on to find acting success, as a child Nancy put on plays in her backyard, co-starring her sister, Martha. Nancy attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, for two years. There, she met Ivan Rider, then a drama professor (later a director in New York), who was the greatest influences on her early years on stage.After her second year at Baylor, Nancy and two girlfriends spent a summer in Los Angeles. She starred in a production of "Little Mary Sunshine", and fell in love with Los Angeles. She transferred to UCLA, where she graduated a year later. She then played the lead in L.A., in "The Fantasticks" (with Bill Bixby, later the star of TV classics "My Favorite Martian" and "The Incredible Hulk"). From there, she moved to New York and more stage work. She made her Broadway debut in "Pickwick" along with Davy Jones (who later starred in "The Monkees" on TV).In 1966, Nancy became part of the original cast of Dark Shadows (1966), in the role of Carolyn Stoddard, daughter of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the family matriarch played by screen legend Joan Bennett. While on the show (playing seven characters in 405 episodes), Nancy took breaks to appear in plays, including Neil Simon's "The Star-Spangled Girl" and "The Physicists".Nancy was married briefly and divorced in the early 60s. While on Dark Shadows, Nancy was married to co-star David Ford. The couple also divorced. In the early 1970s, she married Dr. Harold Kaplan, a prominent New York psychiatrist. Dr. Kaplan died in 1997. Before his death, Nancy's husband got a chance to see her fulfill a dream. For years she'd considered performing a one-woman show, and in August 1997, she did, in "As If We Never Said Good-bye", at the annual Dark Shadows Festival in New York City. She has since performed similar shows in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, the mid-west, and at the New York cabaret club, ,Don't Tell Mama'.During the holiday season of 1999, Nancy made her ballet debut in a production of "The Nutcracker". She is currently in the planning stages of a music CD which she hopes to have completed in early 2003.
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Biography/Timeline

1966

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.

1986

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.

2009

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.

2013

While on Dark Shadows, she appeared in two films 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.