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Piper Laurie is born (b. Rosetta Jacobs January 22, 1932, Detroit, Michigan is an American actress. Piper, a sexy leading lady of the 1960s, was lured out of early retirement by director Brian De Palma, who cast her as Margaret White, the demented mother of a telekinetic teen in the 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie. She garnered an Oscar nomination (the second of three) for that classic performance. Piper's other genre appearances include The Faculty (1998), Dario Argento's Trauma (1993), Return to Oz (1985), and Ruby (1977), in which she played the owner of a haunted drive-in theater. She was also featured in episodes of Beauty and the Beast, Dead Like Me, and the updated Twilight Zone.

External Links

• Piper Laurie at Internet Movie Database