ERs 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: Shed 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 Im sitting around anyway, I might as well be learning something, Mariye, who has appeared as nurse Lily Jarvik since the shows 1994 debut, recalled...
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