Biography
Mary Ellen Trainor was an American actress. She studied broadcast journalism at San Diego State University and began her career working at radio stations before her first television appearance in a 1983 episode of Cheers. Her big-screen debut came the following year as Elaine in Romancing the Stone (1984).
She became known for roles including Mrs. Walsh in The Goonies (1985), Dr. Stephanie Woods in the Lethal Weapon films (1987–1998), and Gail Wallens in Die Hard (1988). Trainor appeared in several films directed by her then-husband Robert Zemeckis, to whom she was married from 1980 until their divorce in 2000. She died on 20 May 2015 in Montecito, California.
