A student of Northern Illinois University, Carrie switched to drama at Chicago's Goodman Theatre School where she won the Sarah Siddons Award as outstanding graduate. After graduating, Carrie worked in Television and also appeared in Television movies. She made her big screen debut in _Rabbit, Run .
Gave birth to her only child at age 26, a son Zeke Snodgress Young on September 8, 1972. Childs father is her ex-boyfriend, Neil Young.
Was initially tapped to star opposite Sylvester Stallone in Rocky but lost the role over a salary dispute.
Hospitalized at the University of California Medical Center in Los Angeles, she succumbed to heart failure while awaiting a liver transplant. Her son was at her side when she died.
Carries son Zeke Young by rocker Neil Young was born with cerebral palsy. She and Young separated in 1975 after four years. Young married in 1977 and the next year had a second son, Ben Young, who also had cerebral palsy. Carrie later sued Young for child support in 1983. Young was ordered to pay Carrie $10,000 a month and up to $300,000 on a home for mother and child.
Neil Young s 1972 album "Harvest" was greatly influenced by his relationship at the time with Carrie.
In 1979, her ex-boyfriend, songwriter Jack Nitzsche , was charged with threatening to kill her after he drunkenly forced his way into her home and bludgeoned her with a handgun. Nitzsche pleaded guilty to threatening her, and was fined and placed on three years probation.
Her husband, Robert Jones, was a painter.
She attended Maine Township High School East (class of 1963) in Park Ridge, Illinois. The same high school attended by Harrison Ford (class of 1960) and Hillary Rodham (class of 1965).
She was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance in Molires "Tartuffe" on stage in Chicago.
Following her sudden death, she was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
