Mary Ellen Trainor
Mary Ellen Trainor was an actress best known for her role as police psychologist Dr. Stephanie Woods in the four Lethal Weapon films. She also appeared in several movies directed by her then-husband, Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis, including her 1984 big-screen debut in Romancing the Stone.
Additionally, she had roles in Zemeckis’s Back to the Future Part II, Death Becomes Her and Forrest Gump, the latter of which earned him the Oscar for best director. She also appeared in the films Goonies (as Mrs. Walsh), Die Hard, Ghostbusters II, Action Jackson, Grand Canyon, Little Giants, Congo, Executive Decision, Moonlight Mile, Scrooged and Freaky Friday.
Her work in television included small roles on the series Cheers and Tales from the Crypt, and parts as recurring characters Estelle Becker on Remington Steele, Eve Lukens on Relativity, Diane Evans on Roswell, and as the title character’s mother on Fox’s teen comedy Parker Lewis Can’t Lose.
Mary Ellen Trainor was an actress best known for her role as police psychologist Dr. Stephanie Woods in the four Lethal Weapon films. She also appeared in several movies directed by her then-husband, Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis, including her 1984 big-screen debut in Romancing the Stone.
Additionally, she had roles in Zemeckis’s Back to the Future Part II, Death Becomes Her and Forrest Gump, the latter of which earned him the Oscar for best director. She also appeared in the films Goonies (as Mrs. Walsh), Die Hard, Ghostbusters II, Action Jackson, Grand Canyon, Little Giants, Congo, Executive Decision, Moonlight Mile, Scrooged and Freaky Friday.
Her work in television included small roles on the series Cheers and Tales from the Crypt, and parts as recurring characters Estelle Becker on Remington Steele, Eve Lukens on Relativity, Diane Evans on Roswell, and as the title character’s mother on Fox’s teen comedy Parker Lewis Can’t Lose.
Trainor got her start after studying broadcast journalism at San Diego State University, finding work as an on-air personality for radio station KSDO, a station editor at KCBS-TV, and an assistant to one of the producers on Steven Spielberg’s 1941, written by her future husband Zemeckis.
Trainor died May 20, 2015, in Montecito, California. She was 64.
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