Comments (0) Best Supporting Actress in a Shakespeare Tragedy - 2012
Leslie O'Carroll
In the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's production of Romeo and Juliet, Leslie O'Carroll's Nurse was a tough old peasant who was more than a match for a group of rudely teasing young aristocrats, but was also properly obsequious before Lord and Lady Capulet. She was also a woman who loved her charge, Juliet — but not so much that she'd give up job and security to defend her. O'Carroll brought a rough-edged humor to the show, filling her scenes with bawdy and sometimes poignant life.
