Finn Carter - Film Career

Film Career

Carter became well known while playing Sierra Estaban Reyes Montgomery on the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns, from 1985–1988 and a short reprise in 1994. She appeared in the television series China Beach as nurse Linda Matlock Lanier, and later as Rhonda LeBeck in the motion picture Tremors (with Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward). Her film debut was in How I Got into College opposite Anthony Edwards. Most recently she co-starred with Ernie Hudson in the 2005 independent film Halfway Decent. Carter regularly appears as a guest star on television series as well as lead roles on many made-for-television movies.

Carter began her career in the theatre and was a member of The Circle Repertory Company in New York. She created the role of Effie Herrington at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre in Up In Saratoga, written by Terrence McNally and directed by Jack O'Brien. Her co-stars were Mary-Louise Parker and Jon Tenney. Her second West Coast theatre appearance was at the Pasadena Playhouse in a revival of Biloxi Blues and most recently she wrote for and performed in an evening of poetry and storytelling at The Altadena Junction.