Biography
Kellye Nakahara was an American actress. Born Kellye Nakahara Watson on 16 January 1948 in Honolulu, Hawaii, she died on 16 February 2020 in Pasadena, California.
She moved to San Francisco to study art before marrying David Wallett in 1967 and relocating to Los Angeles to pursue acting. She began as an extra on the television series MASH (1972–1983) and appeared in 167 episodes as Nurse Kellye Yamato. Film roles included the cook in Clue (1985), a nurse in She's Having a Baby (1988) and Lydia in Shattered (1991). She also appeared in Doctor Dolittle (1998) and guest spots on series such as NYPD Blue and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch*.
Nakahara worked as a watercolor artist under her married name, Kellye Wallett, and served as arts commissioner for Pasadena.
