<Li> Shawn - Douglas Brady </Li> <Li> Andrew Donovan IV </Li> <P> Carrie Brady is a fictional character from the NBC soap opera, Days of Our Lives, a long - running serial about working class life in the fictional town of Salem . Created by head writer Margaret DePriest, the role of Carrie has been most notably portrayed by Christie Clark, who took over the role in 1986 as a teenager . Clark remained with the series off - and - on until leaving in October 2006, however, returned again as a series regular in September 2011 as part of a reboot of the series . On September 15, 2016, it was announced that Clark would again reprise her portrayal as Carrie in 2017 . </P> <P> Throughout the show, Carrie has been involved in classic soap opera storylines . Her romantic pairing with Austin Reed (Austin Peck; Patrick Muldoon) led them to be labeled a supercouple . She is the daughter of Anna DiMera (Leann Hunley) and Roman Brady (at the time Wayne Northrop, later Josh Taylor), though as a child she was mainly raised by her step - parents, Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall) and John Black (Drake Hogestyn). Carrie is a member of the Brady family, one of the show's two core families . She has a long - standing rivalry with her sister Sami Brady (Alison Sweeney); Sami has routinely tried to steal Austin from Carrie . Carrie and Sami started to get along better, but their closeness fell apart when Carrie fell in love with Sami's then - husband, Rafe Hernandez, in 2012 . </P>

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