- Carrie Barton
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Carrie Barton born August 10th in Sherman Oaks, CA is an American Actress who is known in the entertainment industry on both stage and screen as a versatile performer.
Career
She has recurred on such television series as
Tribes (series) andAaron Spelling ’sSunset Beach (TV series) and was a series regular on Apple Valley Knights, aka Sitting on a Rainbow. She has received critical acclaim for her diverse roles in the independent film genre as well. Recently she appeared as Sadie Pray in the indie favorite, Lucky which won many awards on the festival circuit including Best Director atThe Sundance Film Festival (No Dance), Best Feature at TheNew York City Horror Film Festival , The Los Angeles International Horror/Science Fiction Film Festival, and at the MicroCineFest, and Best Screenplay at the B-Movie Theater Film Fest to name a few. Her stage credits range from Agnes inAgnes of God to Queen Elizabeth inMary of Scotland and most everything in between. At age 19 at theAnnie Russell Theatre she played an 11-year-old stuttering Scottish girl, Mary Macgregor inJay Presson Allen ’s popular play,The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for which she won Best Supporting Actress. She has enjoyed stellar reviews in such regional stage productions of "Crimes of the Heart ", "The Crucible ", "Modigliani ", andIngmar Bergman 's "Face to Face" as well as many original works.Barton was a theater major and a dance minor at
Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Between college years she studied at the famedCircle in the Square in the summer program. Upon college graduation she toured with the Seaside Music Theater inKiss Me Kate before moving to New York City. Once there, she studied with Alan Langdon ofCircle in the Square fame before landing a national tour, which finally took her back to her hometown ofLos Angeles .As a young girl Carrie began her career in her native
Sherman Oaks , a suburb of Los Angeles, doing television commercials. Once back in Los Angeles from New York, she resumed her training and enrolled at TheBeverly Hills Playhouse where she studied underMilton Katselas ,Jeffrey Tambor andDorothy Lyman . After four years there she began training withJeff Goldblum and Robert Carnegie at Playhouse West School and Repertory Theater starring in many main stage productions during her six-year stay there, again receiving outstanding notices.Carrie Barton was also a competitive gymnast and retired due to an injury but not before she claimed first place on the uneven parallel bars at the state level in Florida.
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