In 2019, Sutton played Lena Younger in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. In 2012, Sutton received a New Orleans Lifetime Achievement Award. She recorded a large number of supporting roles in American film and television, participating in productions such as The Pelican Brief, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, American Horror Story: Coven, True Detective, Kidnap, The Last Exorcism, Outer Banks and Killer Joe. Sutton devoted much of her career to the theater and also served as an acting teacher in her hometown. Her acting debut came in the 1974 television film The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. She joined the Dashiki Project Theatre in the 1960s. The sixth episode of the second season of Outer Banks, titled "My Druthers", is dedicated in her memory. She is interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sutton died from complications of COVID-19 on December 10, 2020, seven days after her 76th birthday, during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Orleans. She was also a parishioner at St Francis de Sales Catholic Church in New Orleans. She worked for Total Community Action and earned certification in early childhood development from Texas Southern University in Houston. She attended the Xavier University Preparatory School and then later enrolled at Xavier University of Louisiana, but dropped out of the latter after marrying Archie Sutton, whom she later divorced. Carol Dickerson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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