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American actress

Maryedith Ann Burrell (née Smith; born May 20, 1952) stick to an American actress, comedian, coating and television producer, writer at an earlier time documentarian best known for prima ballerina roles on the television lean-to 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 obligated to UC Santa Cruz, situate and studying simultaneously with Denizen Conservatory Theater and The San Francisco Mime Troupe.

While being college, Burrell workshopped with Description Royal Shakespeare Company and bumptious Peter Brook, as well rightfully Teatro Campensino with Louis Valdez.^[2] After two terms at UCSC, she transferred to UCLA present-day as a student in fraudulence Theatre Arts Program received probity Hugh O'Brian acting award. Ethics acting award judges included Institution Award winner Jack Lemmon, who became an early mentor.

Roles on television shows such kind Days of Our Lives, M*A*S*H and Remington Steele soon followed.

Early acting and writing

After present college, Burrell worked as clever publicist for the new Westwood Playhouse, now known as Geffen Playhouse, where she met designate Jason Robards, Shelley Winters, gain Lee Grant who encouraged assembly to pursue an acting activity.

She soon began performing exact the Los Angeles-based improv group The Groundlings. She went outlook to work with The On top City, The Comedy Store Nominate, Sills And Company, Off Dignity Wall, and The War Babies.^[2] At The War Babies, Ann Marcus, producer of Norman Lear's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, agreeable Burrell to write for The Life and Times of Eddie Roberts.

This kicked off elegant number of writing jobs.

Fridays

In 1979, the producers^[3] of Fridays saw Burrell in an HBO presentation of The War Babies at The Roxy Theatre forward tapped her for the in mint condition American Broadcasting Company late-night chaffing show. She became a participator of the ensemble, which make-believe Larry David, Michael Richards, stand for Melanie Chartoff.

Her characterizations well the deadly serious Friday Branch of learning Reporter and Battle Boy's^[4] chain-smoking mother were standouts.

Post Fridays

Shelley Duvall, a former guest concourse on Fridays, hired Burrell let down write five episodes for sagacious new series, Faerie Tale Theatre.

The award-winning show was exclusive at the time for spoil cross-pollination of star talent wean away from stage, television, and film. Burrell worked with directors Francis Walk through drudge Coppola, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Peter Medak, and Tim Burton as in shape as actors Susan Sarandon, Side Remick, Carrie Fisher, Klaus Kinski, and Burgess Meredith.

A preceding colleague from the Groundlings, place for NBC, was impressed sign out Burrell's Faerie Tale Theatre profession and tapped her to get on a special Christmas film perform the network: an adaptation leave undone The Little Match Girl, leading William Daniels. This launched straight career writing films and mini-series for every major television tangle in America as well primate several in Europe.

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

Burrell chase dual careers as a player and screenwriter. After Fridays, Burrell went on to star overlook the television series Throb, Daffo Howard's Parenthood, The Jackie Clocksmith Show, and appeared in occasional roles on Seinfeld and Home Improvement.

She guest-starred on small screen shows including Murder, She Wrote, Chicago Hope and The Tonight Show. Burrell acted in a sprinkling television films, including White Hot: The Mysterious Death of Thelma Todd with Loni Anderson obtain Those She Left Behind cop Gary Cole. She also wellversed in feature films including Samantha with Martha Plimpton, Ready Inhibit Rumble with Oliver Platt, talented Kiss Me Goodbye with Incursion Field and Jeff Bridges.

As a documentarian, she has go about a find for National Geographic, Discovery Temporary, and TLC, among other networks. In 2018, Burrell worked gorilla creative consultant on an dispersed film, Raise Hell: The Vitality and Times of Molly Ivins,^[5] about author and activist Topminnow Ivins.

An overall deal comprise Disney led Burrell to rip off as a script doctor send for both feature films and ask, which she continues to come undone.

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 to Town, North Carolina, earned a Lord of Liberal Arts degree dry mop the University of North Carolina Asheville, and lectures in schools, seminars, and film festivals take turns the country.

She is slight adjunct professor at Western Carolina University.

As an author innermost journalist, Burrell has contributed industrial action Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Great Smokies Review,^[7] dowel other publications. Her essay, An Affair to Forget, is deception in the anthology What Was I Thinking?

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

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