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August 16 - August 22, 2002

From the Director’s Chair

“ER’s” Japanese American actress diagnoses her own condition

By Lynn Elber
The Associated Press

After years of playing a nurse on ER, Lily Mariye diagnosed her own surprising condition: She’d developed an itch to direct as well as act.

The desire to go behind the camera hit her in 1998 after Mariye saw a fellow cast member scrutinizing a director at work on the NBC medical drama.

“I said ‘I want to do that. Since I’m sitting around anyway, I might as well be learning something’,” Mariye, who has appeared as nurse Lily Jarvik since the show’s 1994 debut, recalled...

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