American actress (1952?2015)
Mary Ellen Trainor
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Born
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1952-07-08
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July 8, 1952
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Died
| May 20, 2015
(2015-05-20)
(aged 62)
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Occupation
| Actress
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Years active
| 1979?2007
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Spouse
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(
m.
1980;
div.
2000)
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Children
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Mary Ellen Trainor
(July 8, 1952
[1]
? May 20, 2015) was an American
character actress
best known for her roles as
LAPD
psychiatrist
Dr. Stephanie Woods in the
Lethal Weapon
films,
newscaster
Gail Wallens in
Die Hard
and
Ricochet
, and
working mother
Irene Walsh in
The Goonies
. She also appeared in numerous other well-known films including
Romancing the Stone
,
The Monster Squad
,
Death Becomes Her
,
Forrest Gump
, and
Freaky Friday
(2003).
Early life
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Trainor attended
San Diego State University
, where she studied broadcast journalism.
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Career
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Trainor started her career working at radio stations
KSDO
as well as
KCBS
.
[2]
Her first television appearance came in the 1983
Cheers
episode "
Father Knows Last
", and her big-screen debut came the following year in
Romancing the Stone
. She frequently appeared in the films of
Richard Donner
and her ex-husband
Robert Zemeckis
.
In addition to her film work she had recurring television roles as Judy Lewis in
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
(Pilot 1990; 1991?1993), as Eve Lukens in
Relativity
(1996?1997), and as Diane Evans in
Roswell
(1999?2002).
She has appeared in three films that have been selected for the
National Film Registry
by the
Library of Congress
as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant:
The Goonies
(1985),
Die Hard
(1988) and
Forrest Gump
(1994).
Personal life and death
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Trainor was married to director
Robert Zemeckis
for 20 years,
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citation needed
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with whom she had a son, Alexander.
[
citation needed
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She was good friends with producer
Kathleen Kennedy
,
[3]
who worked with
Steven Spielberg
extensively and serves as President of
Lucasfilm
. Trainor introduced the two.
[4]
Trainor died on May 20, 2015, at her home in
Montecito, California
, from complications of
pancreatic cancer
, at age 62.
[2]
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Filmography
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Film
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Television
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References
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External links
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