Biography
Park Overall is an American actress and political activist. Born on 15 March 1957 in Tennessee, she graduated from Tusculum College with a degree in English before moving to New York to pursue acting.
She made her Broadway debut as Rowena in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues and reprised the role in the 1988 film adaptation. Overall is known for playing nurse Laverne Todd in the sitcom Empty Nest (1988–1995) and has appeared in films including Mississippi Burning (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990) and The Vanishing (1993), as well as the series Reba. She ran as a Democratic candidate in the 2012 U.S. Senate primary in Tennessee.
