'Lovecraft Country' Actress Carol Sutton Passes Away At 76
Sutton appeared in more than one hundred film and television productions without leaving her hometown of New Orleans.
The
Eve’s Bayou, and
Sutton initially began performing in the theater. She appeared in the plays
The Last Madam, Native Tongues, and
A Raisin in the Sun before pivoting to television in 1974. She loved New Orleans so much that she refused to relocate for her career. She explained her choice to her friend and colleague Tommye Myrick in a 2019 interview.
“When everyone else left, I never had a desire to leave New Orleans. I never wanted to go to L.A. or New York,” she reportedly said.“In those places, there were hundreds of people trying to do the same things I wanted to do. If I wanted to get on stage or get in a movie, I was able to do that right here.”