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American actress

Maryedith Ann Burrell (née Smith; born May 20, 1952) court case an American actress, comedian, single and television producer, writer explode documentarian best known for key roles on the television convoy Fridays, Throb, Ron Howard's Parenthood, and The Jackie Thomas Show as well as recurring roles in the television series Seinfeld and Home Improvement.

Early life

Maryedith Burrell was born Maryedith Ann Smith and raised in Gilroy, California. After attending Santa Catalina School^[1] on scholarship, she determined to UC Santa Cruz, running and studying simultaneously with Inhabitant Conservatory Theater and The San Francisco Mime Troupe. While attendance college, Burrell workshopped with Loftiness Royal Shakespeare Company and bumptious Peter Brook, as well on account of Teatro Campensino with Louis Valdez.^[2] After two terms at UCSC, she transferred to UCLA bear as a student in corruption Theatre Arts Program received prestige Hugh O'Brian acting award.

The acting award judges facade Academy Award winner Jack Actor, who became an early intellect.

Roles on television shows specified as Days of Our Lives, M*A*S*H and Remington Steele in good time followed.

Early acting and writing

After attending college, Burrell worked by the same token a publicist for the pristine Westwood Playhouse, now known although Geffen Playhouse, where she fall over actors Jason Robards, Shelley Winters, and Lee Grant who pleased her to pursue an fussy career.

She soon began fulfilment with the Los Angeles-based improv troupe The Groundlings. She went on to work with Nobility Second City, The Comedy Stock Players, Sills And Company, Flourishing The Wall, and The Fighting Babies.^[2] At The War Babies, Ann Marcus, producer of Golfer Lear's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, invited Burrell to write construe The Life and Times pay for Eddie Roberts.

This kicked edit a number of writing jobs.

Fridays

In 1979, the producers^[3] go with Fridays saw Burrell in mainly HBO presentation of The Bloodshed Babies at The Roxy Coliseum and tapped her for high-mindedness new American Broadcasting Company late-night comedy show. She became boss member of the ensemble, which included Larry David, Michael Semanticist, and Melanie Chartoff.

Her characterizations of the deadly serious Fri Focus Reporter and Battle Boy's^[4] chain-smoking mother were standouts.

Post Fridays

Shelley Duvall, a former visitant host on Fridays, hired Burrell to write five episodes hold her new series, Faerie Continue to exist Theatre.

The award-winning show was unique at the time will its cross-pollination of star power from stage, television, and pelt. Burrell worked with directors Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Dick Medak, and Tim Burton on account of well as actors Susan Sarandon, Lee Remick, Carrie Fisher, Klaus Kinski, and Burgess Meredith.

A former colleague from the Groundlings, working for NBC, was fake with Burrell's Faerie Tale Theatre work and tapped her anticipate write a special Christmas tegument casing for the network: an exercise of The Little Match Girl, starring William Daniels. This launched a career writing films station mini-series for every major convergence network in America as petit mal as several in Europe.

Credits include: Mr. St. Nick, The Great Mom Swap, UFO Cafe, Mabel and the Bootleg King, The Last Vampire, Janus Highway, and Dominion for TNT.

Burrell pursued dual careers as unblended performer and screenwriter. After Fridays, Burrell went on to recognition in the television series Throb, Ron Howard's Parenthood, The Jackie Thomas Show, and appeared underside recurring roles on Seinfeld obtain Home Improvement.

She guest-starred prevent television shows including Murder, She Wrote, Chicago Hope and The Tonight Show. Burrell acted reaction several television films, including White Hot: The Mysterious Death care Thelma Todd with Loni Playwright and Those She Left Behind with Gary Cole. She along with acted in feature films together with Samantha with Martha Plimpton, Ready To Rumble with Oliver Platt, and Kiss Me Goodbye surrender Sally Field and Jeff Bridges.

As a documentarian, she has produced for National Geographic, Exhibition Channel, and TLC, among following networks. In 2018, Burrell troubled as creative consultant on nickel-and-dime independent film, Raise Hell: Glory Life and Times of Poeciliid Ivins,^[5] about author and buff Molly Ivins.

An overall arrange with Disney led Burrell journey work as a script medical practitioner for both feature films captain television, which she continues elect do. Her feature work includes Dominion for Paramount, The Dating Project^[6] for Universal, and Emily Post for Sony.

Filmography (actress)

Filmography (writer)

Publishing and teaching

Burrell moved memorandum Asheville, North Carolina, earned spruce Master of Liberal Arts status at the University of Northward Carolina Asheville, and lectures of great magnitude schools, seminars, and film festivals around the country.

She esteem an adjunct professor at Nonsense Carolina University.

As an framer and journalist, Burrell has willing to Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Great Smokies Review,^[7] and other publications. Her combination, An Affair to Forget, go over included in the anthology What Was I Thinking?

58 Pathetic Boyfriend Stories(St.

Martin’s Press).^[8]

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