Carrie Henn or Caroline Marie Henn is a former American actress who is very famous for her role pertraying  Rebecca Newt of Aliens-The Return (1986). She has since quit acting and went totally out of limelight.

Henn was born as the daughter of a former non-commissioned officer of the United States Air Force, Master Sergeant Kenneth Henn and his wife Roseleen Henn, a nurse. She spent most of her childhood in  Lakenheath, England  where her father was stationed in the mid-1980’s.

Career

Henn attended school near her father’s base. One day while in the school cafeteria a casting director noticed her and took a picture of her. She was later invited to audition at Pinewood Studios where she was caste for a role in Aliens-The Return as Newt.

Henn did not have any acting experience nor did she study acting. She happened to be near the shooting spot and was unexpectedly caste into the role. Her brother Christopher Henn was also caste in the movie but, he did not appear in the final release. We can see his scenes in the original extended version.

After the success of the movie, she found that she was suddenly famous, something she had never sought out nor wanted. In many of her interviews, she stated that she would never take up any more movie projects and she kept her word, never appearing in another movie role. Though it seems she had been willing to make an exception for the 2015 fan film Alien Identity but the film was never made ands instead the project lead to the film Triborn..

Henn won a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor for her role in Aliens, . The entire Aliens cast, including Henn, was reunited for the first time since the films release at the Comic & Entertainment Expo On April 26, 2014, in the Stampede Corral in algary.

By the time the movie was released, Henn and her family had moved to America and started focusing more on her education. After completing high School Henn attended California State University for her graduating in 2000 with a degree in Liberal Science and Child Development. She now works as a teacher in Atwater, California for fourth grade students. Every now and then, some kids in her class used to bring DVDs for her to sign but she has no plans to return to the acting field and she never talked about her career too much. Her net worth is not known to public.