Carrie Louise Hamilton (December 5, 1963 – January 20, 2002) was an American actress, playwright and singer.
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Hamilton was a daughter of comedian Carol Burnett and producer Joe Hamilton. Hamilton worked in a number of productions for film, stage, television and video. She took the role of Reggie Higgins in the TV version of the musical Fame for the fifth and sixth seasons (1985–1987), and portrayed the role of Maureen Johnson in the first national tour of the stage musical Rent to considerable acclaim. She also studied music and acting at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. One of her films was Tokyo Pop (1988), in which she played an American singer who journeys to Japan. There, she found a relationship with both a singer (played by Diamond Yukai also known as Yutaka Tadokoro) and a band who made it into the Tokyo pop charts Top Ten. She performed several songs in the film. In 1991 she was a guest musician on the band Ugly Kid Joe's "As Ugly as They Wanna Be" album, playing piano on the track "Everything About You." In 1992, Hamilton had a minor role in the live-action movie Cool World.
Hamilton married musician Mark Templin in 1994 on the same sound stage where The Carol Burnett Show was videotaped. The couple divorced in 1998.
