Sherry Hursey is an American actress. She is best known for her recurring role as Ilene Markham on the sitcom ''
Home Improvement
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'' and her 1988–1989 stint as Paula Carson on the soap opera ''
Days of Our Lives''.
Her other television credits include ''
The Rookies
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'', ''
Happy Days
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'', ''
The Six Million Dollar Man
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'', ''
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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''
, ''
Rhoda'', ''
Simon & Simon
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'', ''
Matlock'', ''
Step by Step'', ''
Major Dad'', ''
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
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'', ''
NYPD Blue'' and ''
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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''. She also appeared in a number of television films and the theatrical films ''
Tom and Huck
Tom or TOM may refer to:
* Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name)
Characters
* Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head''
* Tom Beck, a character ...
'' (1995) and ''
Bring It On Bring It On may refer to:
Books
* ''Bring It On'' (book), by Pat Robertson
* ''Bring It On!'' (manhwa), a romance manhwa by Baek Hye-Kyung
Film and stage
* ''Bring It On'' (film series), an American series of teen comedy cheerleading films capit ...
'' (2000), playing the mother of
Kirsten Dunst
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's character. In 1996, she appeared in the television film ''
Lying Eyes''.
In 2010, Hursey starred and produced the
television pilot
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''Lilly's Light,'' starring in the titular role. The series was about a Lilly (Hursey) a foster mother living in an enchanted lighthouse raising three foster children. Actors
Mindy Sterling
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and
Fred Willard
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also co-starred.
''Lilly's Light'' home page
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Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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Living people
Actresses from North Carolina
American film actresses
American musical theatre actresses
American soap opera actresses
American television actresses
American voice actresses
People from Rutherfordton, North Carolina
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
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