Name Lily Mariye Role Actress | Awards TV Land Icon Award | |
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Born September 25, 1964 (age 60) ( 1964-09-25 ) Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Movies and TV shows ER, American Pie Presents, Extraordinary Measures, Mighty Joe Young, The Doctor Similar People Boney James, Yvette Freeman, Ellen Crawford, Chris Tashima, Laura Ceron | ||
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Lily Mariye is an American actress, filmmaker and television director.
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- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Lily mariye cast of model minority interview los angeles asian pacific film festival
Early life
Mariye was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and graduated from UCLA with a BA in Theater Arts.
Career
From 1994 to 2009 she had a regular role as nurse Lily Jarvik on the NBC television series ER, for which she has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series four times. She has appeared in many films such as The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Mighty Joe Young, The Shadow, The New Age, The Doctor and Extraordinary Measures. Lily has guest-starred in over 25 television shows including Teen Wolf, Criminal Minds, Shameless, NCIS L.A., Judging Amy, Ally McBeal, Family Ties, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Chicago Hope. She is also an award-winning theatre actress, performing in New York, Los Angeles and other regional theatres around the country.
Lily Mariye's debut feature film as a writer and director, Model Minority had its world premiere at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, where it received three awards: Special Jury Outstanding Director, Breakthrough Performance by a New Actor and Outstanding Cinematography as well as being a nominee for the Grand Jury Prize in Narrative Feature Filmmaking. Model Minority also won Best Micro-Budget Film and Best Female Director at The London Independent Film Festival, and Outstanding Feature at The Sacramento International Film Festival.
She has written several full-length screenplays, one of which, The Shangri-la Cafe, was accepted into the second round of the application process for development in the Sundance Feature Film Labs. The Shangri-la Cafe won Best Screenplay at the Ohio International Independent Film Festival and the Gaffers Film Festival, and won her a grant from the AFI Conservatory's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, 13th Cycle. While at AFI she produced and directed an award-winning short film version of the script (Best Short Film Award - Moondance International Film Festival, Best Screenplay Award - Brussels Independent Film Festival). The short film version of The Shangri-la Cafe was included on a DVD release of AFI shorts entitled Celebrating AFI.
In 2012 Mariye was chosen to participate in the Disney/ABC/DGA Directing Program. In 2016 she directed Episode 14, Season 4 of ABC's Nashville (season 4) and Episode 4 after Nashville (season 5) moved to CMT. She also directed an episode of Season 2 of Amazon's "Just Add Magic" and episode 17, Season 4 of Freeform's "The Fosters."
In 2017 she participated in The CBS Directing Initiative. Also in 2017, Mariye directed episodes of Chicago P.D. (TV series), NCIS: Los Angeles and helmed her third episode on Nashville (season 6).
Personal life
A resident of Los Angeles, Mariye lives with husband, four time Grammy-nominated recording artist, saxophonist Boney James, who also contributed to the soundtracks for The Shangri-la Cafe and Model Minority.