Mary Mara dead at 61: ‘Law and Order’ entertainer suffocated in New York waterway

Mary Mara, a veteran entertainer who showed up on TV shows such for example “Law and Order,” “NYPD Blue”, and “Beam Donovan,” has kicked the bucket after drowning in the St. Lawrence River throughout the end of the week.

She was 61.

Officers answered a potential drowning call at 8 a.m. Sunday. On the scene in Cape Vincent, they tracked down her body, as per the New York State Police report by The Post.

Mara was visiting her sister and also was swimming in the water, police said. TMZ revealed she bounced in to work out.

Her body displayed no unfairness and has been taken to the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy, as per the state police.

“Mary was perhaps of the best entertainer I at any point met,” Craig Dorfman, her director, said in a statement to Variety. “I recollect seeing her dramatic in 1992 in ‘Distraught Forest’ off-Broadway. She was electric, entertaining and a genuine person. Everybody cherished her. She will be remembered fondly.”

Mara, who lived in Cape Vincent, was a Syracuse local. She moved on from Corcoran High School before going to San Francisco State University and Yale — she procured a graduate degree in expressive arts from the last option’s School of Drama — to become familiar with the abilities she utilized in her over three-decade proficient vocation.

Mara proceeded to act in the north than 20 films and 40 TV shows, including “The West Wing,” “
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” “emergency room,” “Nash Bridges,” “The Practice,” “Star Trek: Enterprise,” “Lost”, and “Improper,” among others. She also appeared in the movies “Mr Saturday Night,” featuring Billy Crystal, and “Love Potion No. 9,” inverse Sandra Bullock.

As indicated by her IMDb page, her latest gig was 2020’s “Break Even.”

Mara likewise showed inverse Michelle Pfeiffer and Jeff Goldblum in the 1989 Shakespeare in the Park creation of the Bard’s “Twelfth Night,” trailed by a line of 1990s appearances for NYC’s acclaimed Manhattan Theater Club.