Lily Mariye

Lily Mariye (born September 25, 1964) is an American television director, filmmaker and actress.

Early life Mariye was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and graduated from UCLA with a BA in theater arts.

Career From 1994 to 2009 she had a regular role as nurse Lily Jarvik on the NBC television series ER. She has appeared in many films such as The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Mighty Joe Young, The Shadow, The New Age, The Doctor and Extraordinary Measures. Mariye has guest-starred in over 25 television shows including Teen Wolf, Criminal Minds, Shameless, NCIS: Los Angeles, Judging Amy, Ally McBeal, Family Ties, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Chicago Hope. She is also an award-winning theatre actress, performing in New York, Los Angeles and other regional theatres around the country.

Mariye's debut feature film as a writer and director, Model Minority had its world premiere at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, where it received three awards: Special Jury Outstanding Director, Breakthrough Performance by a New Actor and Outstanding Cinematography as well as being a nominee for the Grand Jury Prize in Narrative Feature Filmmaking. Model Minority also won Best Micro-Budget Film and Best Female Director at The London Independent Film Festival, and Outstanding Feature at The Sacramento International Film Festival.

She has written several full-length screenplays, one of which, The Shangri-la Cafe, was accepted into the second round of the application process for development in the Sundance Feature Film Labs. The Shangri-la Cafe won Best Screenplay at the Ohio International Independent Film Festival and the Gaffers Film Festival, and won her a grant from the AFI Conservatory's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, 13th Cycle. While at AFI she produced and directed an award-winning short film version of the script (Best Short Film Award - Moondance International Film Festival, Best Screenplay Award - Brussels Independent Film Festival). The short film version of The Shangri-la Cafe was included on a DVD release of AFI shorts entitled Celebrating AFI.

In 2012, Mariye was chosen to participate in the Disney/ABC/DGA Directing Program.

In 2016, she directed Episode 14, Season 4 of ABC's Nashville and season 5, episode 14 after the show moved to CMT. She also directed an episode of Season 2 of Amazon's Just Add Magic and episode 17, Season 4 of Freeform's The Fosters.

In 2016, she participated in The CBS Directing Initiative.

In 2017, Mariye directed episodes of Chicago P.D., NCIS: Los Angeles and helmed her third episode on Nashville.

In 2018 Mariye directed two episodes of CBS's Criminal Minds, Chicago P.D., NCIS: Los Angeles, MacGyver and The Enemy Within.

In 2018 she received a DGA Award Nomination at the 70th Annual DGA Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Program for her work on Just Add Magic.

Mariye also received the Visionary Award from East West Players in April 2018 for her contributions in raising "the visibility of the Asian Pacific American (APA) community through [her] craft."

Personal life A resident of Los Angeles, Mariye lives with her husband, saxophonist Boney James.

Directing credits

Film Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes 2000 The Shangri-la Café Short film 2002 Err 2003 Thumbing It 2012 Model Minority Feature film

Television

Year Title Notes 2016–2018 Nashville 3 episodes 2017–2019 Chicago P.D. 2 episodes 2017 The Fosters Episode: “Diamond in the Rough” 2017 Just Add Magic Episode: “Just Add Meddling”; DGA Award Nomination 2023–2025 Godfather of Harlem 3 episodes 2025 Elsbeth Episode: “I’ve Got a Little List”

Theatre

YearTitlePlaywrightNotess 2017 "God of Carnage" Yasmina Reza East West Players Theatre

Acting credits

Film

Year Title Role Notes 1982 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Chicken Ranch Girl 1985 American Geisha Shizue TV Movie 1987 Right to Die Unknown TV Movie 1991 Switch Nurse 1991 The Doctor O.R. Nurse 1991 Ted & Venus Rose 1992 Exclusive Doctor TV Movie 1994 The Shadow Mrs. Tam 1994 The New Age Sue 1994 Roseanne & Tom: Behind the Scenes Secretary TV Movie 1998 Mighty Joe Young Ticket Clerk 2005 American Pie Presents: Band Camp Dr. Susan Choi 2010 Extraordinary Measures Dr. Waldman

Television series

Year Title Role Notes 1982 Lou Grant Judy Episode: “Unthinkable” 1982 Fame Dr. Chen Episode: “Childhood's End” 1982 Knots Landing Nurse Episode: “Emergency” 1984 Family Ties Eleanor Episode: “Best Man” 1985 Remington Steele Teller #1 Episode: “Have I Got a Steele for You” 1985 St. Elsewhere Nurse Sherry Long Episode: “Slice O’Life 1986 Disneyland Teacher #3 Episode: “Fuzzbucket” 1988 Disneyland Commentator Episode: “Justin Case” 1988 Murphy Brown Secretary #6 Episode: “Nowhere to Run” 1989 Jake and the Fatman Mrs. DeLuca Episode: “Easy to Love” 1989 China Beach Servant Episode: “Independence Day” 1991 Back to the Future (voice) Episode: “Brothers” 1991 Who's the Boss? Nurse Episode: “Tony Bags a Big One” 1992 Rachel Gunn, R.N. Registrar Episode: “My Left Feet” 1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Ops Officer Episode: “Emissary” 1993 Bob Sishu Episode: “The Phantom of AmCanTranConComCo” 1993 George Reporter #3 Episode: “Nobody Up There Likes Me” 1994–2009 ER Nurse Lily Jarvik 127 episodes 1995 Signs and Wonders Agent Sung 3 episodes 1995–1996 Melrose Place Dr. Fisher 2 episodes 1996 Chicago Hope Kayoko Miyamoto Episode: “V-Fibbing” 2002 Ally McBeal Dr. Franklin Episode: “Homecoming” 2005 Judging Amy Dr. Clara Kim Episode: “You Don't Know Me” 2011 Shameless Malaya Episode: “Killer Carl” 2013 NCIS: Los Angeles Ashley Hong Episode: “Purity” 2014 Teen Wolf Satomi Ito 3 episodes 2014 Criminal Minds Dr. Lee Episode: “X” 2015 General Hospital Madame Bellot 1 episode 2016 Murder in the First Beth Crotty Episode: “Black and Blue” 2016 One Mississippi Doctor Episode: “New Contact” 2018 NCIS: Los Angeles Shirley Hidoko Episode: “Superhuman”

Theatre

Year Title Role Director Location Notes 1987; 1988; 1991 Tea Teruko Julianne Boyd Manhattan Theatre Club, NY; Old Globe Theatre, San Diego; Odyssey Theatre, LA Dramalogue Award 1990 Delicacies Unknown Bruce Whitney Carpet Co. Stage 1992 Into the Woods Unknown DTim Dang East West Players 1995 Trojan Women Unknown Michael Arabian CBS Studios Center 1996 Kokoro (True Heart) Yasako Jan Lewis Odyssey Theatre LA Weekly Best Actress nomination Unknown Runaways Unknown Matt Casella Richmond Shepard Unknown The Bacchae Unknown Unknown Mark Taper Workshop Unknown Pastorale Unknown Susan Dietz Beverly Hills Playhouse Unknown Cabaret Unknown John Allison Glendale Playhouse Unknown Kimchee & Chitlins Unknown Unknown Mark Taper Workshop Unknown Daniel in Babylon Unknown Matt Casella L.A. Stage Co. Unknown Lesbian Seagulls Unknown Catherine Coke Celebration Theatre, L.A.