# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carlin-glynn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:28:47.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carlin-glynn"
name: "Carlin Glynn"
slug: "carlin-glynn"
description: "Carlin Elizabeth Glynn was an American singer and actress. Most notable for her work as a theater performer, she is best known for her Tony Award-winning performance, as Mona Stangley, in the original 1978 production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. She is also known for her roles in John Hughes' Sixteen Candles (1984) and Peter Masterson's The Trip to Bountiful (1985), which is based on the play of the same name, by Horton Foote. Glynn was the mother of actress Mary Stuart Masterson."
tagline: "American singer and actress"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Carlin_Glynn_nonfree.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1940-02-19"
deathDate: "2023-07-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.16
  momentum:             12.57418397626113
  historical:           9.60538
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0323344/"
    handle:    "nm0323344"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlin_Glynn"
    title: "Carlin Glynn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%BA%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "كارلين غلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "كارلين جلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlin_Glynn"
    title: "Carlin Glynn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlin_Glynn"
    title: "Carlin Glynn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%AF%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "کارلین گلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlin_Glynn"
    title: "Carlin Glynn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlin_Glynn"
    title: "Carlin Glynn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BD"
    title: "Карлін Глінн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%86_%DA%AF%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "کارلن گلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5041297"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/203731"
    title: "Carlin Glynn"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump