Laurie took a break from film to marry critic Joseph Morgenstern in 1962. She has latterly re-emerged as a rather more flamboyant character player, co-starring with Sissy Spacek as the title character's deranged religious-fanatic mother in "Carrie" (1976), Marlee Matlin's cold mother in "Children of a Lesser God" (1986) and the scheming mill owner Catherine Martell on David Lynch's cult TV soap opera "Twin Peaks" (ABC, 1990-91). In 1995, she reteamed with Spacek, this time playing her sister, in Charlie Matthau's feature adaptation of Truman Capote's "The Grass Harp".