Mary McCusker

Mary McCusker is the actress who appeared as a nurse in the third season episode . Some filmed scenes with her were cut from the final aired episode, because of time's sake.
McCusker studied acting at the Boston Conservatory of Music, graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse, and started her acting career in the early '70s when she had guest roles in the television series Play for Today (1971, with Maurice Roëves). In the following years she had supporting roles in (1976, with Gerrit Graham and William Schallert), the comedy Cracking Up (1977, with Michael McKean and Leslie Ackerman), the thriller The Border (1979), and the television drama The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979, with Jonathan Banks and Star Trek voice casting agent Barbara Harris).
In the '80s, she portrayed guest roles in episodes of CHiPs (1980, with Robert Pine), (1983, with William Daniels and Patricia McPherson), Bay City Blues (1983, starring Michael Nouri), (1985, with William Frankfather and Harry Groener), Highway to Heaven (1984 and 1986, along Georgia Schmidt), and (1987, starring William Daniels, Norman Lloyd, Ed Begley, Jr., and Bruce Greenwood).
Her feature film credits include (1981, with Henry Gibson, John Glover, Betty McGuire, and David Ruprecht), (1982, with Michael Ensign), (1985, with Leslie Ackerman, Denise Crosby, Mark L. Taylor, Jason Wingreen and Anne Haney), and (1989, with Kenneth Tigar, Clyde Kusatsu, Nick Dimitri and Jim Beaver).
In the '90s, McCusker focused on her acting coach career and appeared in a handful of productions, including (1994), (1995), the Doctor Finlay episode The Life of Men (1996), and (1997, with Allan Graf and Jake Sakson).
McCusker has worked as acting and dialogue coach for several teenage and child actors such as in …First Do No Harm (1997), in The Next Best Thing (2000), and for the on the television pilot J.O.N.A.S! (2009). Other acting coach credits include (1994), (1995), (1995), (1996), (1998), (1998), (for seven years), The Bernie Mac Show, and .
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