Cara Duff-MacCormick

Born in Woodstock, Ontario, Duff-MacCormick studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.

Duff-MacCormick made her professional debut Off-Broadway in December 1969 at the Cherry Lane Theatre as Faith Detweiler in Harold J. Chapler's Love Your Crooked Neighbor.

She made her Broadway debut as Shelly in Michael Weller's Moonchildren in 1972, a role she had performed the year before at the Arena Stage in 1971.{{cite web|author=Mel Gussow|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00B15F93B5C1A7493C4AB178AD95F458785F9&scp=2&sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&st=p|title=Review of Moonchildren|publisher=Select.nytimes.com|date=November 26, 1971|accessdate=January 8, 2012}} For this performance the actress won a Theatre World Award and garnered a Tony Award nomination.{{cite web|url=http://www.theatreworldawards.org/award.html|title=Theatre World Awards|publisher=Theatre World Awards|accessdate=January 8, 2012}} Because Duff-MacCormick was performing in a production at the Wayside Theatre when she won the Theatre World Award, her mother accepted the award on her behalf.{{cite news | title=Wayside Actess Receives Theater World Award | work=The Northern Virginia Daily | date=June 22, 1972 | pages=14}}

The following year she returned to Broadway to portray Clare in Tennessee Williams's play Out Cry at the Lyceum Theatre{{cite web|last=Gussow|first=Mel|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/11/archives/catharsis-for-tennessee-williams-catharsis-for-williams.html?sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&scp=4&st=p |title=Review of Out Cry|publisher=Select.nytimes.com|date=March 11, 1973|accessdate=January 8, 2012}} and played Nina in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey.{{cite web|author=Clive Barnes|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/08/archives/the-theater-chekhovs-the-seagull-new-english-version-staged-in.html?sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&scp=6&st=p|title=Review of The Seagull|publisher=Select.nytimes.com|date=October 8, 1973|accessdate=January 8, 2012}} In 1975, she won an Obie Award for her performance in Craig's Wife.

In 1976, Duff-MacCormick was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her portrayal of Julia Craven in George Bernard Shaw's The Philanderer with the Roundabout Theatre Company.{{cite web|last=Barnes|first=Clive|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/30/archives/stage-roundabout-gives-attractive-version-of-tired-philanderer.html?sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&scp=9&st=p|title=Review of The Philanderer|publisher=Select.nytimes.com|date=September 30, 1976|accessdate=January 8, 2012}} That same year she also played Helen in Kevin O'Morrison's Ladyhouse Blues at the Marymount Manhattan Theatre{{cite web|last=Barnes|first=Clive|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20D12FA395B167493C6A9178AD95F428785F9&scp=11&sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&st=p|title=Review of Ladyhouse Blues|publisher=Select.nytimes.com|date=November 4, 1976|accessdate=January 8, 2012}} and played Tammy Ulrich in the film All the President's Men.

In 1977, she starred in Albert Innaurato's Earthworms at Playwrights Horizons.{{cite web|last=Gussow|first=Mel|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/05/27/archives/stage-earth-worms-innauratos-grand-opera.html?sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&scp=12&st=p|title=Review of Earthworms|publisher=Select.nytimes.com|date=May 27, 1977|accessdate=January 8, 2012}} In 1978 she portrayed the role of Hakon's wife in Ibsen's The Pretenders alongside Randall Duk Kim and Stephen Lang at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis.{{cite web|last=Eder|first=Richard|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/24/archives/stage-ibsen-at-the-guthrie-struggle-for-crown.html?sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&scp=14&st=p|title=Review of The Pretenders|publisher=Select.nytimes.com|date=July 24, 1978|accessdate=January 8, 2012}} That same year she played Agafya Tikhonovna in Nikolai Gogol's Marriage, also at the Guthrie Theatre.{{cite web|last=Eder|first=Richard|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/14/archives/theater-marriage-the-hidden-menace.html?sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&scp=16&st=p|title=Review of Marriage|publisher=Select.nytimes.com|date=November 14, 1978|accessdate=January 8, 2012}}

She appeared frequently at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis during the 1970s, including portraying the roles of Mrs. Sullen in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem (1976),{{cite web |title=The Beaux Strategem: Production History Detail |url=http://www.repstl.org/productionhistory/detail/the_beaux_strategem/ |website=Repertory Theatre of St. Louis |accessdate=2019-11-21 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025134253/http://www.repstl.org/productionhistory/detail/the_beaux_strategem/ |archivedate=2007-10-25 |url-status=dead}} Bananas in John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves (1977),{{cite web |title=The House of Blue Leaves: Production History Detail |url=http://www.repstl.org/productionhistory/detail/the_house_of_blue_leaves/ |website=Repertory Theatre of St. Louis |accessdate=2019-11-21 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025054638/http://www.repstl.org/productionhistory/detail/the_house_of_blue_leaves/ |archivedate=2007-10-25 |url-status=dead}} Judith Anderson in Shaw's The Devil's Disciple (1977){{cite web |title=The Devil's Disciple: Production History Detail |url=http://www.repstl.org/productionhistory/detail/the_devils_disciple/ |website=Repertory Theatre of St. Louis |accessdate=2019-11-21 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025135259/http://www.repstl.org/productionhistory/detail/the_devils_disciple/ |archivedate=2007-10-25 |url-status=dead}} and Sister Rita in The Runner Stumbles (1978).{{cite web |title=The Runner Stumbles: Production History Detail |url=http://www.repstl.org/productionhistory/detail/the_runner_stumbles/ |website=Repertory Theatre of St. Louis |accessdate=2019-11-21 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025135400/http://www.repstl.org/productionhistory/detail/the_runner_stumbles/ |archivedate=2007-10-25 |url-status=dead}}

In 1980, Duff-MacCormick played Monique in Michel Tremblay's Bonjour, La, Bonjour at the Marymount Manhattan Theatre alongside Veronica Castang and Dianne Wiest.{{cite web|last=Rich|first=Frank|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/10/14/archives/theater-bonjour-la-bonjour-recounts-a-prodigals-return-smothered-by.html?sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&scp=18&st=p|title=Review of Bonjour, La, Bonjour|publisher=Select.nytimes.com|date=October 14, 1980|accessdate=January 8, 2012}} The following year she returned to Broadway to appear in Eddie Lawrence's Animals at the Princess Theatre. In 1982 she played Peggy Grant in a revival of The Front Page[http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9E04EED81F38F933A25755C0A964948260&scp=9&sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&st=nyt New York Times, June 10, 1982] and the following year played Carrie in Paul Kember's Not Quite Jerusalem, both at the Long Wharf Theater.[http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9E04E1D61438F936A15751C1A965948260&scp=7&sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&st=nyt New York Times review of Not Quite Jerusalem], December 25, 1983.

In 1985, she appeared Off-Broadway at the American Theater Exchange as Claire in Heather McDonald's Faulkner's Bicycle[http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9906E7D81239F935A25755C0A963948260&scp=5&sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&st=nyt New York Times, June 16, 1986] and she appeared at the Actors Theatre of Louisville as Carolyn Rose in Lee Blessing's War of the Roses, followed by a portrayal of Barbara Mears in Tom Strelich's Neon Psalms at the American Place Theatre in 1986.[http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9A0DE1DE1239F930A15753C1A960948260&scp=4&sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&st=nyt New York Times, October 23, 1986]

In 1987, she appeared at the Hartford Stage as Barbara in A. R. Gurney's Children.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/01/nyregion/theater-gurney-s-children-in-hartford.html?sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&scp=3&st=nyt|title=Review of A. R. Gurney's play, Children|work=New York Times|date=February 1, 1987|accessdate=January 8, 2012}} She returned to the Playwrights Horizons in 1989 to perform the role of Natalie Bauer Lechner in Albert Innaurato's Gus and Al.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/28/theater/review-theater-innaurato-befriends-mahler-in-gus-and-al.html?sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&scp=2&st=nyt|title=Review of Gus and Al|work=New York Times|date=February 28, 1989|accessdate=January 8, 2012}}

In 1992, she played Queen Isabella in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II at the Yale Repertory Theatre.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/05/nyregion/theater-edward-the-second-at-yale-rep.html?sq=Cara+Duff-MacCormick&scp=1&st=nyt|title=Review of Edward II|work=New York Times|date=April 5, 1992|accessdate=January 8, 2012}} That same year she appeared in a guest-starring role on Law & Order in the episode "Point of View".{{IMDb name|0240422}}

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