Piper Laurie

She had a recurring role in the television series Twin Peaks. Her star will be installed in early 2005. She received another Supporting Actress nomination in 1987 for Children of a Lesser God. In late 2004, Lucci revealed to Soap Opera Digest that she has earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She appeared in the Australian film Tim opposite a very young Mel Gibson, but perhaps her most famous role in her later career was as the fanatically religious mother in Carrie, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. After eighteen failed nominations, it came as a shock to both her as well as the viewing audience when she finally won in 1999. Once again disenchanted with the work available, Laurie returned to semi-retirement to raise a family. Lucci's name became synonymous with never winning an award, and she was even asked to parody her loss on Saturday Night Live (in the skit, even the hairdresser won an Emmy, while she did not).

In 1961 she returned to Hollywood to star opposite Paul Newman in The Hustler, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. The long period without a win ended up being the source of many jokes. Dissatisfied with the work she was being offered in Hollywood, Laurie went to New York City in 1955 to work on the live television programs of the 1950s, in such productions as Twelfth Night and Days of Wine and Roses. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on All My Children almost every year since 1978, losing many times to fellow ABC soap actress, Erika Slezak. She signed a contract with Universal Studios when she was 17, co-starring with Ronald Reagan in Louisa. Many critics praised her performance and the film has become a holiday favorite. Born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Los Angeles, California when she was young. Lucci played a Scrooge-like department store owner visited by Marley and the three ghosts on Christmas.

Piper Laurie (born January 22, 1932) is an American actress. This film was an updated version of Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol. In 1995, Lucci appeared in the Lifetime television movie Ebbie. She has appeared in a number of television shows and made-for-TV movies. She is best known for the role of Erica Kane (full name Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick) on the ABC television soap opera All My Children, on which she has appeared since the show's inception on January 5, 1970.

She is the mother of fellow soap actress Liza Huber. Susan Lucci (born December 23, 1947 in Scarsdale, New York) is an Italian American Daytime Emmy-award winning actress.