Actor: Piper Laurie

Piper Laurie was nominated for The Hustler, Carrie and Children of a Lesser God, spread across twenty-five years.

She left acting entirely for fifteen years after The Hustler, working as a sculptor and political activist, and returned for Carrie, in which she plays a religious fanatic mother with a conviction that makes the film work. Twin Peaks gave her a strange late role including an extended disguise as a Japanese businessman.