Lily Mariye is an American actress and filmmaker.
From 1994-2009 she had a regular role as nurse Lily Jarvik on the NBC television series ER

ER (TV series)

ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

, for which she has won the Screen Actors Guild

Screen Actors Guild

The Screen Actors Guild is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide...

 Award for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series four times.

Mariye was born in Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

 and graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Theatre Arts.

She has since appeared in many films such as The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a musical with a book by Texas author Larry L. King and Peter Masterson and music and lyrics by Carol Hall...

, Mighty Joe Young

Mighty Joe Young (1998 film)

The Music was composed and conduced by James Horner. The Soundtrack was released on December of the year 1998.- Tracklist :...

, The Shadow

The Shadow (1994 film)

The Shadow is a 1994 American superhero film, directed by Russell Mulcahy, and based on the character of the same name created by Walter B. Gibson in 1931. Alec Baldwin starred in the title role...

, The New Age, and The Doctor

The Doctor (film)

The Doctor is a 1991 American drama film directed by Randa Haines and starring William Hurt as a doctor who undergoes a transformation in his views about life, illness and human relationships. It is loosely based on the book A Taste Of My Own Medicine....

. Lily has guest-starred in over 25 television shows including Judging Amy

Judging Amy

Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly...

, Ally McBeal

Ally McBeal

Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama series which aired on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E. Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia...

, Family Ties

Family Ties

Family Ties is an American sitcom that aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. The sitcom reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. This was particularly expressed through the relationship between young...

, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe...

, and Chicago Hope

Chicago Hope

Chicago Hope is an American medical drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994, to May 5, 2000. It takes place in a fictional private charity hospital.-Premise:The show stars Mandy Patinkin as Dr...

. She is also an award-winning theatre actress, performing in New York, Los Angeles and other regional theatres around the country. She has written several full-length screenplays, one of which, The Shangri-la Cafe

The Shangri-la Cafe

The Shangri-la Cafe is a 2000 film written and directed by Lily Mariye. The film is about a Japanese American family who conceals their identity and reluctantly adopts discriminatory practices in order to operate a Chinese restaurant within the hostile cold war climate of Las Vegas in the late...

, was accepted into the second round of the application process for development in the Sundance Feature Film Labs, has won Best Screenplay in the Ohio International Independent Film Festival, the Gaffers Film Festival, and is the basis for her short film endeavor, which won her a grant from the AFI Conservatory

AFI Conservatory

The AFI Conservatory is a division of the American Film Institute founded in 1969, located in Hollywood's Griffith Park. The school is the only existing Master of Fine Arts conservatory in advanced film education...

's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, 13th Cycle.

Lily has directed four short films for Instant Films, an independent film project held every two months in which eight short films are written, filmed, edited and screened in 48 hours. A resident of Los Angeles, Mariye lives with husband, 3 time Grammy-nominated Verve recording artist, saxophonist Boney James

Boney James

Boney James, is a saxophonist, songwriter and producer who popularized urban jazz...

, who also contributed to the soundtrack for The Shangri-la Cafe

The Shangri-la Cafe

The Shangri-la Cafe is a 2000 film written and directed by Lily Mariye. The film is about a Japanese American family who conceals their identity and reluctantly adopts discriminatory practices in order to operate a Chinese restaurant within the hostile cold war climate of Las Vegas in the late...

. She is currently working on directing her first feature film, "Model Minority".

Film

Title	Director
Monster Movie Monster Movie Monster Movie is the debut album by the German krautrock band Can, recorded and released in 1969.After the release of their first two singles in 1968, Can produced an album that was to be their full-length debut, entitled Prepared to Meet Thy Pnoom, but no record company was willing to release it...	Michael Lansing
American Pie Presents: Band Camp	Dr. Susan Choi
Mighty Joe Young Mighty Joe Young (1998 film) The Music was composed and conduced by James Horner. The Soundtrack was released on December of the year 1998.- Tracklist :...  (1998 film)	Ron Underwood
Signs And Wonders Signs and Wonders Signs and Wonders was a phrase used often by leaders of the Charismatic movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It is closely associated with the ministry of John Wimber and the Vineyard Movement...	Maurice Phillips
The Shadow The Shadow The Shadow is a collection of serialized dramas, originally in pulp magazines, then on 1930s radio and then in a wide variety of media, that follow the exploits of the title character, a crime-fighting vigilante in the pulps, which carried over to the airwaves as a "wealthy, young man about town"...	Russell Mulcahy
California Myth	Michel Katz
The New Age The New Age The New Age was a British literary magazine, noted for its wide influence under the editorship of A. R. Orage from 1907 to 1922. It began life in 1894 as a publication of the Christian Socialist movement; but in 1907 as a radical weekly edited by Joseph Clayton, it was struggling...	Michael Tolkin
Ted & Venus Ted & Venus Ted & Venus is a 1991 film directed by Bud Cort. This comedy is written by Bud Cort and Paul Ciotti, and features and all-star cast including Brian Thompson. The original music is composed by David Robbins....	Bud Cort
The Doctor The Doctor (film) The Doctor is a 1991 American drama film directed by Randa Haines and starring William Hurt as a doctor who undergoes a transformation in his views about life, illness and human relationships. It is loosely based on the book A Taste Of My Own Medicine....	Randa Haines
Switch Switch In electronics, a switch is an electrical component that can break an electrical circuit, interrupting the current or diverting it from one conductor to another....	Blake Edwards
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a musical with a book by Texas author Larry L. King and Peter Masterson and music and lyrics by Carol Hall...	Colin Higgins

Television

Title	Director	Role
Judging Amy Judging Amy Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly...	Dir: James Kramer	Guest Star
ER ER (TV series) ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television... (4 SAG Awards, Best Ensemble)	Dir: Jonathan Kaplan (et al.)	Recurring, 15 seasons
Ally McBeal Ally McBeal Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama series which aired on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E. Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia...	Dir: Billy Dickson	Guest Star
Reunited Reunited "Reunited" was a hit song for R&B vocal duo Peaches & Herb. Released from their 1978 album, 2 Hot, the song was a huge crossover smash, topping both the pop and soul charts...	Dir: Asaad Kelada	Recurring
Chicago Hope Chicago Hope Chicago Hope is an American medical drama series created by David E. Kelley that ran from September 18, 1994, to May 5, 2000. It takes place in a fictional private charity hospital.-Premise:The show stars Mandy Patinkin as Dr...	Dir: Sandy Smolin	Guest Star
Melrose Place	Dir: James Darren	Guest Star, 2 episodes
Murphy Brown Murphy Brown Murphy Brown is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS from November 14, 1988, to May 18, 1998, for a total of 247 episodes. The program starred Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for FYI, a fictional CBS television...	Dir: Barnet Kellman	Guest Star
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe...	Dir: David Carson	Guest Star
George George (TV series) George was a Swiss-Canadian television series which aired on CTV on Thursday evenings in 1972-74.The series was based on the 1971 film George!, about the adventures of a St. Bernard dog and his owner who live in Switzerland. Marshall Thompson starred in both the film and the resulting half-hour...	Dir: Tony Singletary	Co-Star
Who's the Boss? Who's the Boss? Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, which aired on ABC from September 20, 1984 to April 25, 1992...	Dir: Tony Singletary	Co-Star
China Beach China Beach China Beach is an American dramatic television series set at an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War. The title refers to My Khe beach in the city of Da Nang, Vietnam, which was nicknamed "China Beach" by unknown foreigners, most likely Americans...	Dir: Mimi Leder	Co-Star

Theatre

Title	Director	Location
Tea (Dramalogue Award)	Dir: Julianne Boyd	Manhattan Theatre Club, NY Old Globe Theatre, San Diego
Kokoro (L.A Weekly Best Actress Nom.)	Dir: Jan Lewis	Odyssey Theatre
Into the Woods Into the Woods Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim...	Dir: Tim Dang	East/West Players
Reunited	Dir: Asaad Kelada	Recurring
Delicacies	Dir: Bruce Whitney
Runaways Runaways (musical) Runaways is a musical which was written, composed and directed by Elizabeth Swados, about the lives of children who run away from home and live on the city streets...	Dir: Matt Casella	Richmond Shepard
Trojan Women		CBS Studios
The Bacchae		Mark Taper Workshop
Pastorale	Dir: Susan Dietz	Beverly Hills Playhouse
Cabaret Cabaret (musical) Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and spawned a 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....	Dir: John Allison
Kimchee & Chitlins		Mark Taper Workshop
Daniel in Babylon	Dir: Matt Casella	L.A. Stage Co.
Lesbian Seagulls	Dir: Catherine Coke	Celebration Theatre Celebration Theatre The Celebration Theatre is a 501 non-profit theatre company in Los Angeles, founded in 1982. The company is located in West Hollywood, on the west end of Theatre Row, and specializes in works representing the Gay and Lesbian experience.-History:... , L.A.

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