Carol Eve Rossen

Carol Eve Rossen is an American actress.

Early years Born in Los Angeles, California, The family lived in California until she was 12 years old. She said, "I had a very normal childhood. I was never surrounded by the children of show business." Then they moved to the eastern United States, living in Connecticut and New York. Bessie Schonberg, head of Sarah Lawrence's theater department, urged Rossen to try acting. Schonberg's efforts included spending three years trying to get Rossen to take a worshop course. "When I finally did," Rossen said, "I loved it." She went beyond acting to write and direct shows that were performed on campus for children from the area around the college. Other programs on which she appeared included The Heidi Chronicles, Branded, CBS Playhouse, The Untouchables, Dr. Kildare. Corey: For the People (1977), The Oath (1976), and Scene of the Crime V (1985).

Rossen's Broadway credits include Nobody Loves an Albatross (1963) and The Glass Menagerie (1965). and a play with John Houseman's Theater Group.

Critical response A review in The New York Times said that she gave a strong performance in a "Shadow Game", a 1969 episode of CBS Playhouse. Another Times review included Rossen's work in the television movie A Question of Honor (1982) among the program's "impressive performances". Time magazine called an episode of East Side West Side in which she starred "this series' best episode".

Hiatus and return Rossen left show business when her daughter was born. When she sought to return to the profession seven years later, she found it difficult. She said, "Allowing myself to become known as merely Mrs. Hal Holbrook was the worst thing I could have done professionally." She tried to make people think she was active during that span "by telling New York friends I had assignments in Los Angeles, and telling people in Los Angeles that I had projects going in New York". Her 2019 book, Mother Goose Drank Scotch, is a biography of her father. The review said that the book would have had more effect if Rossen had used a simpler, more direct writing style. but "Still, Counterpunch deserves to be read." They had a daughter,