Carolyn Houlihan

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Carolyn Houlihan
NationalityAmerican
OccupationActress
Years active1981–1982 (film)

Carolyn Houlihan is an American former actress and beauty pageant contestant. [1] [2] In 1979, she won the Miss Ohio USA title and competed in Miss USA. Houlihan rose to prominence for her role as Karen in the cult horror film The Burning (1981), [3] where she shares a scene with Jason Alexander [4] and is the first victim. [5] After a brief appearance in the comedy A Little Sex (1982), Houlihan ceased acting and show business.

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Filmography

TitleYearRole
The Burning 1981Karen
A Little Sex 1982Bathing suit model

References

  1. ↑ "Titleholders". MISS OHIO USA® and MISS OHIO TEEN USA®. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
  2. ↑ Journals of the Senate of the ... General Assembly of the State of Ohio. Ohio General Assembly. 1979.
  3. ↑ Maslin, Janet (November 5, 1982). "'BURNING,' FROM HORROR GENRE". The New York Times. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
  4. ↑ Shimabukuro, Karrȧ; Clayton, Wickham (February 6, 2024). Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror Film and Television. Liverpool University Press. p. 97. ISBN   978-1-83553-281-2.
  5. ↑ Diffrient, David Scott (November 27, 2023). Body Genre: Anatomy of the Horror Film. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 115. ISBN   978-1-4968-4798-0.
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