Full Name Judy Hayden Role Actress Name Judy Farrell | Years active 1969–2006 Occupation Actress, Writer | |
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Children Erin Farrell, Michael Farrell Movies and TV shows Long‑Term Relationship, Fame, Chapter Two, Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia Similar People Mike Farrell, Kellye Nakahara, Enid Kent, Eileen Saki, Shelley Fabares | ||
Judy Farrell (born March 1, 1938) is an American actress most noted for her role as Nurse Able on the television comedy series M*A*S*M*A*S*H. She performed small roles in several other television series, then later wrote 13 episodes for the soap opera Port Charles.
Farrell was born Judy Hayden and raised in Quapaw, Oklahoma. She graduated from Oklahoma State University with a fine arts degree in theater. While studying for a master's degree at UCLA in 1961, she met actor Mike Farrell. She worked as a high school English and Drama teacher at Laguna Beach High School in Laguna Beach, California. In August 1963, she married Farrell with whom she subsequently had two children, Erin and Michael. In the 1960s, she and Farrell performed together at the Laguna Playhouse. They divorced in the early 1980s.
The Farrells' marriage was worked into the show's script: In the episode "The Colonel's Horse," Mike's character B.J. Hunnicutt said his wife Peg (played by Catherine Bergstrom in two onscreen appearances and a few photographs) was from Judy's hometown of Quapaw, and that her father's name was Floyd Hayden.
Personal life
In August 1963, Hayden married actor Mike Farrell, when she was working as a high school English and drama teacher in Laguna Beach, California. They were separated in 1980 and divorced in 1983. They have two children, Michael and Erin. On M*A*S*H, B.J. Hunnicutt's daughter also was named Erin. She has been married to Joe Bratcher since 1985.