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Wikipedia / Ellen Bry

Ellen Bry is an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of nurse-turned-vigilante Shirley Daniels on the hospital drama St. Elsewhere.

Bry gained acting experience in school plays, community theater productions, Tufts University and summer stock theatre. At one point, she left acting and worked as a paralegal for New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs. A scripted fight on an episode of Kojak led to Bry's working for a while as a stuntwoman in New York.

Bry also appeared as medical student Jean Hallinan in three episodes of the television series Dallas (Season Four, 1981) and as photographer Julie Masters on the 1978 CBS series The Amazing Spider-Man.

Bry's family moved to Stamford, Connecticut, when she was a child.

Filmography

Year

Title

Role

Notes

1976

To Fly!

Herself

Documentary short

1978

Superman

Stunts, Uncredited

1979

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

Joanne Vail

TV movie

1979

CHiPs

Beth

Episode: "High Octane"

1978–1979

The Amazing Spider-Man

Julie Masters

8 episodes

1980

Quincy, M.E.

Linda Hayes

Episode: "The Final Gift"

1982–1987

St. Elsewhere

Nurse Shirley Daniels

52 episodes

1983

Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land

Laura

TV movie

1984

Battle of the Network Stars XVI

Self - NBC Team

TV special

1986

MacGyver

Carole Tanner

Episode: "Countdown"

1986

Disneyland

Karen McCorder

Episode: "I-Man"

1986

The Love Boat

Gretchen Sommers

Episode: "Miss Mom/Who's the Champ/Gopher's Delusion"

1987

Murder, She Wrote

Linda Stevens

Episode: "The Cemetery Vote"

1992

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Dr. Farallon

Episode: "The Quality of Life"

1994

Renegade

Waitress

Episode: "Charlie"

1994

Mrs. Greer

Katherine

Short

1995

Bye Bye Love

Debbie

1998

Deep Impact

Stofsky

1999

Emergency Room 2

Video Game

2000

Highway 395

2006

Mission: Impossible III

Lindsey's Mother

2009

The Lost & Found Family

Ester

References