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I jumped at the opportunity. That's invalw-able to work with a television company for that many months and really see it from behind the scenes. (Besides) I thought there was nothing I couldn't handle. "Then you get a few years older and you realize, 'Wait a minute. I'm not invincible.

Maybe this isn't the greatest (One of the people she doubled for was Margot Kidder in Superman, doing the several story fall from the helicopter.) Returning to acting fulltime, she got roles in Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, The Amazing Spider-Man and Dallas before landing the plum role of Shirley Daniels. Now, however, she is branching out. She's already guested on Hotel and Murder, She Wrote, and hopes to do feature films, but is keeping an eye out for a new series. And she has no qualms about auditioning for producers. "I could never let that stand in the way.

I feel I'm a good actress and I don't mind showing my But her role as Daniels has a lot of producers thinking she can't do anything else, so they don't even call her for parts she'd like to do. "It's crazy-making! It makes me nuts! "(But) let's face it's easier to break down their misconception of me than it is to get a foot in the door for the first time. I love being known as a serious dramatic actress. That's fine because that's basically what my forte is, but I find it very hard to get in for comedies. The fact is I can do comedy.

I'm an actress. I can do pretty much anything you ask me to do." WHISTLER, B.C. Of the nearly 'twenty stars who recently attended the Pepsi Celebrity Ski Invitational at Whistler, B.C., one of the most delightful was St. Elsewhere' Ellen Bry. Much of her happiness, she admits, comes from the critically-acclaimed work she's doing on St.

Elsewhere as Nurse Shirley Daniels, the gun-toting, border-' line-psychotic who killed Dr. Peter White when he turned rapist. And Bry feels she has more of Daniels that she wants to show. Says Bry, "I've never felt I've gone as far as I can with that character because she's so complex. There are areas to keep going in.

It's such a stroke of luck to get a role like Shirley Daniels with so much meat on it." This season Shirley Daniels was back at the hospital, on temporary release from prison and bodies are turning up again. Is she responsible? That's to be revealed during this Wednesday's season-closing episode (at press time there are strong indications it may also be the series-closing episode with St. Eligius being torn down by a Japanese consortium). But until it airs, Ellen Bry isn't giving any hints. She doesn't want to spoil the attention she's getting.

And attention is something she's enjoyed ever since she was a child growing up in New York, then Stamford, Connecticut. "Ever since I can remember like three or four years old I liked being centre stage. I used to commandeer my two brothers into putting on skits and plays for the family. And, of course," she laughs, "I would always cast myself in the best parts. "In school, I was almost tunnel-vi-sioned about it.

I did school plays and community theatre workshops, then I Ellen Bry: will be back next season if series is renewed 40 OFF Select Verticals Venetians 30 0FF Duettes started doing summer stock." She knew acting would be her life. "It's almost like you're cursed. Because Lord knows there are easier ways to make a living. It's the sort of thing where if you can walk away, you do. I can't." Setting her sights on Broadway, she moved back to New York and started pounding the pavements, going to all open calls imaginable, doing off-Broadway plays for no money and supporting herself by appearing in commercials.

Then she got a small role on a Kojak episode and it led her into becoming a stuntwoman. "It was actually the first acting job on television I'd ever gotten. They asked me Serving Calgary for over 25 years A ted -avoid inhaling. Av. per cigarette: lurier: Reg: 13 mg 1.0 mg nicotine; mm LI I 1 I DRAPERIES 8dNTERIORS(82) 2707 17th Avenue S.W..