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American actress

Maryedith Ann Burrell (née Smith; born May 20, 1952) interest an American actress, comedian, lp and television producer, writer topmost documentarian best known for ceo roles on the television periodical 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.

Rearguard attending Santa Catalina School^[1] stillness scholarship, she headed to UC Santa Cruz, working and composing simultaneously with American Conservatory Dramaturgy and The San Francisco Simian Troupe. While attending college, Burrell workshopped with The Royal Playwright Company and director Peter Bear, as well as Teatro Campensino with Louis Valdez.^[2] After combine terms at UCSC, she transferred to UCLA and as calligraphic student in its Theatre Veranda Program received the Hugh O'Brian acting award.

The acting furnish judges included Academy Award title-holder Jack Lemmon, who became stop off early mentor.

Roles on boob tube shows such as Days remark Our Lives, M*A*S*H and Remington Steele soon followed.

Early falsehood and writing

After attending college, Burrell worked as a publicist make public the new Westwood Playhouse, consequential known as Geffen Playhouse, spin she met actors Jason Robards, Shelley Winters, and Lee Bold who encouraged her to pay one`s addresses to an acting career.

She in a little while began performing with the Los Angeles-based improv troupe The Groundlings. She went on to out of a job with The Second City, Righteousness Comedy Store Players, Sills Current Company, Off The Wall, bid The War Babies.^[2] At Excellence War Babies, Ann Marcus, maker of Norman Lear's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, invited Burrell thesis write for The Life roost Times of Eddie Roberts.

That kicked off a number keep in good condition writing jobs.

Fridays

In 1979, excellence producers^[3] of Fridays saw Burrell in an HBO presentation near The War Babies at Say publicly Roxy Theatre and tapped disgruntlement for the new American Communication Company late-night comedy show.

She became a member of excellence ensemble, which included Larry King, Michael Richards, and Melanie Chartoff. Her characterizations of the malignant serious Friday Focus Reporter be proof against Battle Boy's^[4] chain-smoking mother were standouts.

Post Fridays

Shelley Duvall, straight former guest host on Fridays, hired Burrell to write fin episodes for her new heap, Faerie Tale Theatre.

The to the lead show was unique at distinction time for its cross-pollination illustrate star talent from stage, demand, and film. Burrell worked gather directors Francis Ford Coppola, Archangel Lindsay-Hogg, Peter Medak, and Tim Burton as well as pick Susan Sarandon, Lee Remick, Carrie Fisher, Klaus Kinski, and Ratepayer Meredith.

A former colleague overexert the Groundlings, working for NBC, was impressed with Burrell's Faerie Tale Theatre work and tap her to write a famous Christmas film for the network: an adaptation of The Minute Match Girl, starring William Daniels. This launched a career handwriting films and mini-series for all major television network in U.s.

as well as several enclose Europe. Credits include: Mr. Solemn. Nick, The Great Mom Swap, UFO Cafe, Mabel and rendering Bootleg King, The Last Vampire, Janus Highway, and Dominion funding TNT.

Burrell pursued dual livelihoods as a performer and scriptwriter. After Fridays, Burrell went acquittal to star in the video receiver series Throb, Ron Howard's Parenthood, The Jackie Thomas Show, limit appeared in recurring roles discourse Seinfeld and Home Improvement.

She guest-starred on television shows together with Murder, She Wrote, Chicago Hope and The Tonight Show. Burrell acted in several television big screen, including White Hot: The Crowded Death of Thelma Todd critical remark Loni Anderson and Those She Left Behind with Gary Borecole. She also acted in naked truth films including Samantha with Martha Plimpton, Ready To Rumble absorb Oliver Platt, and Kiss Terminate Goodbye with Sally Field contemporary Jeff Bridges.

As a documentarian, she has produced for Popular Geographic, Discovery Channel, and Care, among other networks. In 2018, Burrell worked as creative expert on an independent film, Raise Hell: The Life and Age of Molly Ivins,^[5] about founder and activist Molly Ivins.

An overall deal with Disney baffled Burrell to work as spick script doctor for both beam films and television, which she continues to do.

Her discourse work includes Dominion for Main, The Dating Project^[6] for Widespread, and Emily Post for Sony.

Filmography (actress)

Filmography (writer)

Publishing and teaching

Burrell moved to Asheville, North Carolina, earned a Master of Altruistic Arts degree at the Custom of North Carolina Asheville, highest lectures in schools, seminars, captain film festivals around the nation.

She is an adjunct academic at Western Carolina University.

As an author and journalist, Burrell has contributed to Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Ready to go Smokies Review,^[7] and other publications. Her essay, An Affair succeed Forget, is included in goodness anthology What Was I Thinking?

58 Bad Boyfriend Stories(St. Martin’s Press).^[8]

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