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Over the course of her six-decade career, O\u2019Brien graced screens small and large, appearing in films including \u201cThe Incredible Shrinking Woman<\/a>\u201d and \u201cTable for Five<\/a>.\u201d She also made guest appearances on a number of shows including \u201cMurder She Wrote<\/a>,\u201d \u201cMagnum Pi<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThe Love Boat<\/a>,\u201d \u201cLA Law<\/a>\u201d and \u201cCHiPs<\/a>,\u201d amongst others. She acted alongside stars like Melanie Griffith<\/a>, Lily Tomlin<\/a>, Angela Lansbury<\/a>, Tom Selleck<\/a> and Goldie Hawn<\/a>.<\/p>\n O\u2019Brien began her career as an acting coach in the late 1990s when she was hired on the daytime dramas \u201cSunset Beach<\/a>\u201d and \u201cPassions<\/a>.\u201d She also held a 15-year position as the acting coach on the beloved drama series \u201cDays of Our Lives<\/a>\u201d until her retirement in 2022. In 1990, O\u2019Brien…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maria O\u2019Brien, an acting coach and actor known for roles in films including 1975\u2019s \u201cSmile\u201d and 1984\u2019s \u201cProtocol\u201d and numerous TV appearances in the 1980s and \u201990s, died on Feb. 24. She was 75. Over the course of her six-decade career, O\u2019Brien graced screens small and large, appearing in films including \u201cThe Incredible Shrinking Woman\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2311423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2311422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Maria-OBrien-\u2018Days-of-Our-Lives-Acting-Coach-and-Actor.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311424,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311422\/revisions\/2311424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}