Mary T. Mara, ER, Nash Bridges and Law Order star found dead in river

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Mary T. Mara, ER, Nash Bridges and Law Order star found dead in river

Mary T. Mara, a veteran of television dramas, including ER, Nash Bridges and Law Order, was found dead in a river, New York State Police said Monday.

The actor, 61, was believed to have drowned while swimming in the St. Lawrence River in the town of Cape Vincent on Sunday morning, state police said.

State troopers and Cape Vincent emergency medical service workers made the discovery after 8 a.m.

Mary was one of the finest actresses I've ever met, said Craig Dorfman, Mara's manager. She was a true individual, funny and electric. She will be missed. The actor made her television debut in 1989 in the made-for TV film The Preppie Murder, the same year she hit the big screen with a small role in Jamie Lee Curtis' Blue Steel. She brought her recurring roles on ER and Nash Bridges as well as guest appearances on Law Order, NYPD Blue and West Wing in the 1990s. She scored roles on Dexter, Crossing Jordan, Lost and The Practice in the 2000s. She won the Angel Film Award as the second supporting actress at the Monaco International Film Festival in 2003 for her work in the briefly distributed Em and Me. Mara studied acting at the Yale School of Drama and San Francisco State University. She founded the theater company HART Haight Ashbury Repertory Theatre at San Francisco State, according to the book Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television.