Carol Sutton was an American actress.

With a career that spanned a half-century, Sutton first began acting in local New Orleans theater productions such as Native Tongues and A Raisin in the Sun. In 1974, she landed her first television role in the made-for-TV movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Sutton would go on to have a recurring role in the series In the Heat of the Night and appear on the small screen in other programs such as Orleans, Treme, American Horror Story, True Detective, Scream Queens, Claws, Queen Sugar, and Lovecraft Counry.

On the big screen, Sutton was known for her roles in The Big Easy (1986), Steel Magnolias (1989), The Pelican Brief (1993), Monster's Ball (2001), Ray (2004), The Help (2011), and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014).

Sutton died December 10, 2020, in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was 76.