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Carol Sutton, Steel Magnolias and Queen Sugar actress, dies at 76 from COVID-19 complications Sat Dec 12, 2020 at 6:58pm ET Actress Carol Sutton has passed away at the age of 76. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Admedia Actress Carol Sutton, best known for her roles in Steel Magnolias and Queen Sugar, passed away Thursday night at 76. New Orleans theater producer and director Tommye Myrick, confirmed Sutton’s death, according to Deadline. Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans confirmed Sutton’s death in a statement released on Friday. Sign up for our newsletter! “Carol Sutton was practical...

She died of complications of coronavirus infection, said Tommye Myrick, a friend and local theater director. “Among actors in New Orleans, there was Carol Sutton - and there was everybody else,” said David Cuthbert, a retired Times-Picayune critic. “She opened her mouth, and out came truth. Wherever she was on stage, that was center stage.” After making her acting debut in the late 1960s in Dashiki Project Theatre productions, Sutton appeared on stages around the city in productions such as “The Last Madam,” “Native Tongues” and “A Raisin in the Su...