Judy Farrell (néeHayden; May 11, 1938 – April 2, 2023) was an American actress most noted for her role as Nurse Able on the television comedy series M*A*S*H. She performed small roles in several other television series, then later wrote 13 episodes for the soap operaPort Charles.
While studying for a master's degree at UCLA in 1961, she met actor Mike Farrell.[1] She worked as a high-school English and drama teacher at Laguna Beach High School in Laguna Beach, California.[2] In August 1963, she married Farrell, with whom she subsequently had two children, Erin and Michael.[2] In the 1960s, Farrell and she performed together at the Laguna Playhouse.[1] They divorced in the early 1980s.[2]
The Farrells' marriage was worked into the script of one episode of M*A*S*H: In the episode "The Colonel's Horse," Mike's character B.J. Hunnicutt said his wife Peg (played by Catherine Bergstrom in two onscreen appearances and a few photographs) was from Judy's hometown of Quapaw, and that her father's name was Floyd Hayden.[3] His daughter in the show was also named Erin, as is his real-life daughter.
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