An American actress, writer, and producer, born in a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Carolyn was selected as one of 400 girls in Ford Modeling Agency's search to represent Midwestern beauty during her freshman year of high school. She was picked to go to New York and appeared on CBS, after which Ford placed her in Chicago when she was 15, and she lived off her modeling career. She has posed for top photographers such as Ellen Von Unwerth, Odette Sugerman, Jill Greenberg, and Jeremy Goldberg, and has been featured in magazines including Italian Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Glamour. She went on to study theater at the University of Southern California, the University of Cambridge in England, the Stella Adler Studio of Acting affiliated with the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and the Imagined Life Theater in Los Angeles. She is known for Love & Mercy (2014) and Agent X (2015).