Annette McCarthy

McCarthy was stage trained in both New York City and Los Angeles and continued to work in theater. She also acted in several commercials. Earlier in her career, she was also a rock musician, opening for Twisted Sister.{{Cite web |title=Lost in the Movies: Evelyn Marsh (TWIN PEAKS Character Series #46) |url=https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2017/04/evelyn-marsh-twin-peaks-character.html |access-date=January 14, 2023 |website=lostinthemovies.com}} She began acting in 1978.

McCarthy made her feature film debut in Second Thoughts (1983). She would later play Dr. Wendy Oliver in Creature (1985), considered to be her breakout role.{{Cite book |last=Maltin |first=Leonard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F60TAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT515 |title=Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide |date=September 2, 2014 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-698-18361-2 |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=January 10, 2023 |title=Nie żyje Annette McCarthy. Aktorka miała 64 lata |trans-title=Annette McCarthy is dead. The actress was 64 years old |url=https://film.wp.pl/nie-zyje-annette-mccarthy-aktorka-z-miasteczka-twin-peaks-miala-64-lata-6853980688501664a |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110160140/https://film.wp.pl/nie-zyje-annette-mccarthy-aktorka-z-miasteczka-twin-peaks-miala-64-lata-6853980688501664a |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |access-date=January 10, 2023 |publisher=WP Film |lang=pl}}{{Cite book |last=Fischer |first=Dennis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f2srAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA420 |title=Science Fiction Film Directors, 1895-1998 |date=June 17, 2011 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-6091-5 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Barsanti |first=Chris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kA8ABQAAQBAJ&pg=PT178 |title=The Sci-Fi Movie Guide: The Universe of Film from Alien to Zardoz |date=September 22, 2014 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |isbn=978-1-57859-534-1 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Lentz |first=Harris M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a21ZAAAAMAAJ |title=Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy Film and Television Credits: Filmography |date=2001 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-0951-8 |language=en}}

Under contract to ABC, McCarthy starred in several made-for-TV movies, including her debut A Cry For Love (1980), Crazy Times (1981), and Fugitive Among Us (1992).{{Cite news |last=O'Connor |first=John J. |date=February 3, 1992 |title=Review/Television; A Father and His Son In 'The Broken Cord' (Published 1992) |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/03/arts/review-television-a-father-and-his-son-in-the-broken-cord.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115043523/http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/03/arts/review-television-a-father-and-his-son-in-the-broken-cord.html |archive-date=January 15, 2018 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite book |last=Prouty |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RxHbPxbBM1AC&pg=PP292 |title=Variety TV REV 1991–92 17 |date=1994 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-8240-3796-3 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Tropiano |first=Stephen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rLhJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT339 |title=The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV |date=May 1, 2002 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |isbn=978-1-4768-4798-6 |language=en}}

McCarthy had roles in a variety of major television shows, including: St. Elsewhere, The Twilight Zone, Happy Days, Beauty and the Beast, Magnum, P.I., The Fall Guy, and played a lesbian character in an episode of Night Court called "Passion Plundered" that has been noted by critics.{{Cite web |title=Annette McCarthy |url=https://lezwatchtv.com/actor/annette-mccarthy/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201121745/https://lezwatchtv.com/actor/annette-mccarthy/ |archive-date=February 1, 2021 |access-date=January 27, 2021 |website=LezWatch.TV |language=en-US}}

A notable role came in Riptide. McCarthy also played "Rosalind Grant", the name derived from Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant but the character itself a parody of Cybill Shepherd's character Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting, in the penultimate episode of the series called "If You Can't Beat Em, Join Em." The episode aired shortly before the series' cancellation, in part due to it being beaten in the ratings by Moonlighting.{{Cite book |last=Abbott |first=Jon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dc0TF0GHAmAC&pg=PA189 |title=Stephen J. Cannell Television Productions: A History of All Series and Pilots |date=September 12, 2009 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5401-3 |language=en}} This episode drew a lot of press attention at the time, with both Entertainment Tonight and the Los Angeles Times running features on it.{{Cite web |title=The Moonlighting Parody Episode of Riptide |url=http://davidandmaddie.com/riptide/index.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507093837/http://davidandmaddie.com/riptide/index.htm |archive-date=May 7, 2021 |access-date=February 1, 2021 |website=davidandmaddie.com}}

She also played wealthy heiress Kathleen Huntington on a few episodes of Baywatch, which was her final on-screen role.

One of her most notable roles was in Twin Peaks. McCarthy had been introduced to the show by Steven Soderbergh, a friend of her husband's, sound editor Mark Mangini, who showed her the pilot.{{Cite web |last=Ro |first=April Salud, Crystal |title=99 Things You Might Not Have Known About 'Twin Peaks' |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/aprilsalud/a-damn-fine-list |access-date=January 14, 2023 |website=BuzzFeed |language=en}} She had a casting meeting with Johanna Ray and was later personally hired by David Lynch."Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks" by Brad Dukes|{{Cite book |last=Dukes |first=Brad |title=Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks |date=June 24, 2014 |publisher=Short/Tall Press |isbn=978-0615968834}}{{Cite book |last=Muir |first=John Kenneth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yxpDUAFrwfwC&pg=PT419 |title=Terror Television: American Series, 1970-1999 |date=February 25, 2013 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0416-9 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Clarke |first1=James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5KFZAAAAMAAJ |title=The Complete Lynch |last2=Hughes |first2=David |last3=Smith |first3=Jim |date=2001 |publisher=Virgin |isbn=978-0-7535-0598-4 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Lavery |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m6mjuWXrqb8C&pg=PA237 |title=Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks |date=1995 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |isbn=978-0-8143-2506-3 |language=en}} Her character Evelyn Marsh{{Cite web |title=Lost in the Movies: Evelyn Marsh (TWIN PEAKS Character Series #46) |url=https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2017/04/evelyn-marsh-twin-peaks-character.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128111910/https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2017/04/evelyn-marsh-twin-peaks-character.html |archive-date=January 28, 2021 |access-date=February 25, 2021 |website=lostinthemovies.com}} was a controversial addition, appearing in a string of episodes in a storyline that was meant to emulate film noir{{Cite web |date=August 26, 2017 |title=The Surprising (Other) Reason for the Sunset Boulevard Allusion in Twin Peaks |url=https://25yearslatersite.com/2017/08/25/the-surprising-other-reason-for-the-twin-peaks-allusion-to-sunset-boulevard/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121172527/https://25yearslatersite.com/2017/08/25/the-surprising-other-reason-for-the-twin-peaks-allusion-to-sunset-boulevard/ |archive-date=January 21, 2021 |access-date=February 25, 2021 |website=25YL |language=en-US}} during a weak stretch of the show's second season,{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Charles |date=May 18, 2017 |title=Twin Peaks, The Second Season: A look back, and why you don't have to hate it just because… |url=https://charlesevans.medium.com/twin-peaks-the-second-season-a-look-back-and-why-you-dont-have-to-hate-it-just-because-bdff9e2e6358 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107010754/https://charlesevans.medium.com/twin-peaks-the-second-season-a-look-back-and-why-you-dont-have-to-hate-it-just-because-bdff9e2e6358 |archive-date=January 7, 2021 |access-date=February 25, 2021 |website=Medium |language=en}} shortly after the conclusion of its main plotline (the reveal of Laura Palmer's killer) when the writers were struggling to come up with new storylines. One episode was one of the rare directorial projects of actress Diane Keaton, which McCarthy found memorable.{{Cite web |last=Wilkins |first=Budd |date=May 13, 2017 |title=Twin Peaks: Every Episode Ranked |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/tv/twin-peaks-every-episode-ranked/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206021516/https://www.slantmagazine.com/tv/twin-peaks-every-episode-ranked/ |archive-date=February 6, 2021 |access-date=January 27, 2021 |website=Slant Magazine |language=en-US}}{{Cite book |last1=Weinstock |first1=Jeffrey Andrew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OIxaCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA110 |title=Return to Twin Peaks: New Approaches to Materiality, Theory, and Genre on Television |last2=Spooner |first2=Catherine |date=November 17, 2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-55695-0 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Nochimson |first=Martha P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iHliAAAAMAAJ |title=The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood |date=November 1, 1997 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-75566-6 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EYuGAAAAIAAJ&q=evelyn+marsh+twin+peaks+-wikipedia |title=Video Watchdog |date=1990 |publisher=Tim & Donna Lucas |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Murray |first=Noel |date=May 11, 2017 |title='Twin Peaks' Season 2, Episodes 8–21: The Mumbo Jumbo (Published 2017) |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/watching/twin-peaks-recap-season-2-episodes-8-21.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113152456/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/watching/twin-peaks-recap-season-2-episodes-8-21.html |archive-date=January 13, 2021 |issn=0362-4331}} McCarthy commented on her role in a later interview, saying "my scenes with James (Marshall) were a little overdramatic and some of the lines were pretty silly, but it was cute, what can I say?" Marshall also commented on working with McCarthy, saying, "It was totally fun working with Annette though, she was really cool. She was really fun and a really good actress."

McCarthy was born on April 12, 1958,{{Cite news |date=January 10, 2023 |title=Nie żyje Annette McCarthy. Była gwiazdą "Miasteczka Twin Peaks" |publisher=Świat Seriali |url=https://swiatseriali.interia.pl/newsy/seriale/miasteczko-twin-peaks-1156/news-nie-zyje-annette-mccarthy-byla-gwiazda-miasteczka-twin-peaks,nId,6525302 |url-status=live |access-date=January 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110183453/https://swiatseriali.interia.pl/newsy/seriale/miasteczko-twin-peaks-1156/news-nie-zyje-annette-mccarthy-byla-gwiazda-miasteczka-twin-peaks,nId,6525302 |archive-date=January 10, 2023}} and was the niece of Oscar-nominated actress Joan Hackett.

She majored in theater in the early 1980s.{{Cite web |title=Atriz Annette McCarthy, de Twin Peaks e A Criatura, morre aos 64 anos de idade |url=https://www.memoriascinematograficas.com.br/2023/01/atriz-annette-mccarthy-de-twin-peaks-e.html |access-date=January 14, 2023 |language=en-US}} She married sound editor Mark Mangini in 1984, and they had two sons. They separated or divorced some time later.{{Cite web |title=MyHeritage |url=https://www.myheritage.com/names/mark_mangini |access-date=January 14, 2023 |website=myheritage.com}}{{Cite web |title=Annette McCarthy on Twitter |url=https://mobile.twitter.com/amac550/status/704041848839540736 |access-date=January 14, 2023 |via=Twitter |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Annette McCarthy on Instagram: "My boys, Matt and Joe Mangini, getting ready with their dad." |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CRNxt8xpkgy/ |access-date=January 14, 2023 |website=Instagram |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Annette McCarthy unexpectedly passed away recently. I loved her dearly. She was one of my best friends. We spent a lot of time together... I especially loved our picnics at Hollywood Forever where we'd talk for hours about everything. |url=https://www.facebook.com/SteveLeeHwd/posts/pfbid033tHCvUcQA1EPamttgLrkYHbb1yRHRMi6vZUj8ML1u4wBA93vXDzKndJwUitrhkVEl |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110175154/https://www.facebook.com/SteveLeeHwd/posts/pfbid033tHCvUcQA1EPamttgLrkYHbb1yRHRMi6vZUj8ML1u4wBA93vXDzKndJwUitrhkVEl |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |access-date=January 10, 2023 |website=Steve Lee on Facebook}}

McCarthy was a babysitter for both Sofia Coppola and Zooey Deschanel.

After her role in Baywatch in 1995, she semi-retired from acting, though she continued to appear in theater and commercials for at least another decade, until 2005. She later became an executive chef, specializing in Italian cuisine,{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/annette-mccarthy-447bab11|title=Annette McCarthy LinkedIn page}} and a director of client services at Mercury Sound Studios.

McCarthy died on January 6, 2023, at the age of 64.{{cite web |title=Special Issue 2024 Magazine |url=https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1514720-special-2024/108? |website=SAG-AFTRA |access-date=26 January 2024 |pages=107}}{{cite web |title=Spring 2023 magazine |url=https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1498689-spring-2023/87? |website=SAG-AFTRA |access-date=16 May 2023 |pages=87}}

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