Mary Ellen Trainor

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Mary Ellen Trainor (July 8, 1952 – May 20, 2015) was an American character actress best remembered as Dr.

Stephanie Woods (an LAPD psychiatrist) in the Lethal Weapon films and as Irene Walsh (Mikey and Brand's mom) in The Goonies.

She also appeared in numerous other well-known films including Romancing the Stone, The Monster Squad, Die Hard, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, and Freaky Friday (2003).

Early life

Trainor attended San Diego State University, where she studied broadcast journalism.

Personal life and death

Trainor was married to director Robert Zemeckis for 20 years, with whom she had a son, Alexander. She was good friends with producer Kathleen Kennedy, who worked with Steven Spielberg extensively and serves as President of Lucasfilm. Trainor introduced the two.

Trainor died on May 20, 2015, at her home in Montecito, California, from complications of pancreatic cancer. She was 62 years old.

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Career

Trainor started her career as a producer on radio stations KSDO and KCBS. 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 appeared in Richard Donner's films as well as her ex-husband Robert Zemeckis.

Judy Lewis in Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1989–1991), as Eve Lukens in Relativity (1996–1997), and Diane Evans in Roswell (1999–2002).

She has appeared in three films chosen by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or visually" important: The Goonies (1985), Die Hard (1988) and Forrest Gump (1994).

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