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Her cause of death wasn\u2019t immediately available.<\/p>\n
Born on Aug. 14, 1950, in Los Angeles, O\u2019Brien grew up in a Hollywood family, as her father was Oscar winner Edmond O\u2019Brien<\/a> and her mother was musical comedy star Olga San Juan<\/a>. After following in her parents\u2019 footsteps, she landed her first onscreen credit in 1963 on the TV series Sam Benedict<\/a>.<\/p>\n She also appeared in the 1984 film Protocol<\/a>, starring Goldie Hawn<\/a> and Chris Sarandon<\/a>, as well as Smile,<\/a> Good Luck<\/a>, Promised a Miracle, The Incredible Shrinking Woman<\/a>, Table for Five<\/a>, False Arrest<\/a> and In Sickness and in Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n O\u2019Brien\u2019s television credits included Viva Valdez<\/a>, The Love Boat<\/a>, How the West Was Won<\/a>, The Life and Times of Eddie Roberts<\/a>, CHiPs, Quincy<\/a>, M.E., Magnum, P.<\/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 actress in Protocol and Matlock, who also worked as an acting coach on Days of Our Lives, died on Feb. 24. She was 75. Her cause of death wasn\u2019t immediately available. Born on Aug. 14, 1950, in Los Angeles, O\u2019Brien grew up in a Hollywood family, as her father was Oscar winner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2311470,"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-2311469","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-\u2018Protocol-and-\u2018Matlock-Actress-Dies-at-75.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311469","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=2311469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311471,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311469\/revisions\/2311471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}