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Laura Innes is an American actress and television director. She is best known for her starring role as Kerry Weaver in the medical drama ER (1995–2009), which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Laura Innes is an American actress best known for her role as Dr. Kerry Weaver on ER. She has also directed and written for several TV shows, and appeared in films such as Deep Impact and The Good Neighbor.
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Laura Innes is a TV director and actress who played Dr. Kerry Weaver on ER for 12 seasons. She talks about her casting choices, her experience as a person with a disability, and her advocacy for actors with disabilities. Learn how she became aware of the realities of disability and how she uses her role as a director to support actors with disabilities.
Feb 19, 2007 · Laura Innes talks about her role as Dr. Kerry Weaver, the longest-running lesbian character on prime time TV, on ER. She shares her input on the development of her character, the lesbian story lines, and the ways that viewers have reacted to her portrayal. She also discusses her other projects and her views on lesbian representation on TV.
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- ‘ER’ sat on the shelf for 20 years. Medical doctor/writer Michael Crichton wrote the screenplay for ER in 1974, but it didn’t get produced until 1994. The one change the producers made was in changing the all-white male docs in the original script to reflect reality a bit better.
- The ensemble cast was headlined by Anthony Edwards. Back in 1994, the cast of ER was an ensemble of relatively equally-known actors. Perhaps the best known was Anthony Edwards — Goose in 1986’s Top Gun.
- Laura Innes’ Dr. Weaver was in ‘ER’ for 13 out of 15 seasons. Kerry Weaver came to Chicago’s fictional County General in Season 2 of the show. She walked with a limp, but that was never addressed until Season 14.
- Laura Innes and Noah Wyle were in the cast longer than anyone else. Noah Wyle’s character, Dr. John Carter, first appeared on ER in Season 1 and stayed through the Season 11 finale.
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Laura Innes is an American actress and director, best known for her role as Dr. Kerry Weaver in ER. Learn about her life, career, and achievements on The Movie Database (TMDB), a comprehensive source of information on movies and TV shows.
Learn about Laura Innes' career as an actress and director, best known for her role as Dr. Kerry Weaver on "ER". See her credits, awards, photos and biography on TV Insider.
