Mary Mara is this 'ER' actress drowning in New York river

Mary Mara is this 'ER' actress drowning in New York river

Mary T. Mara, a veteran of television dramas including "ER," "Nash Bridges," and "Law & Order," 

was found dead in a river, New York State Police said Monday. Police believe the actor, 61, drowned while swimming in the St.

Lawrence River in the town of Cape Vincent on Sunday morning, state police said in a statement. 

State troopers and Cape Vincent emergency medical service workers made the discovery after 8 a.m., they said. 

"Mary was one of the finest actresses I ever met," Mara’s manager, 

Craig Dorfman, said by email. "She was electric, funny and a true individual. Everyone loved her. She will be missed." 

The actor made her television debut in 1989 in the made-for-TV movie,  

The Preppie Murder,” the same year she hit the big screen with a small role Jamie Lee Curtis' "Blue Steel."