Nancy Barrett

Nancy Barrett is an American actress and singer born in Shreveport, Louisiana on October 5th, 1943. She spent the majority of her early years growing up in Oklahoma, but relocated to Waco, Texas where she attended school at Baylor University.

Career
Nancy Barrett is best known for playing the role of Carolyn Stoddard on the 1960s ABC gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. Barrett appeared on a total of 402 episodes of the series, playing multiple characters in addition to Carolyn Stoddard. She also played the role of 18th century ancestor Millicent Collins in twenty-five episodes of the series. She played a character named Charity Trask in forty-three episodes during the "1840 Flashback" story-arc. She played Leticia Faye in twenty-one episodes and Melanie Collins in twenty-seven episodes during the 1841 Parallel Time storyline.

In 1976, Nancy Barrett played Faith Coleridge on nine episodes of the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope. She was the second actress to play the role, the first being Faith Caitlin, who began playing the character with the very first episode. Barrett only appeared in nine episodes of the show however. She departed from the series citing that she was unhappy with the role she was playing.

Episode credits
Incomplete

Notes & Trivia

 * Nancy Barrett originally tried out for the part of Victoria Winters, but the role went to Alexandra Moltke instead. While still casting for the series, Barrett was invited back to try out for Carolyn Stoddard, a role that many agreed was better suited for her.


 * Was married to Dark Shadows co-star David Ford from 1967 to 1968.


 * Provides a cast interview on disc one of Dark Shadows DVD Collection 7.

Other works

 * Nancy Barrett reprised the role of Carolyn Stoddard in the 1970 film House of Dark Shadows. For the movie's 1971 sequel, Night of Dark Shadows, Barrett played Claire Jenkins, a character unique to the film with no previous series counterpart.