Conni Marie Brazelton
Encyclopedia
Conni Marie Brazelton is an American
film
and television
actress. She's perhaps best known for her recurring role as Nurse Conni Oligario on the hit NBC
Medical drama
ER
.
, attended Waukegan High School
and studied drama at Southern Illinois University
. After graduation she moved to New York
and then Los Angeles
where she lived for nine months in C.C.H. Pounder's house while she worked on the television show ER
.
Brazelton designs jewelry for Banji Face Jewelry, a firm she owns with CCH Pounder
. Brazelton quoted, "I was inspired to the name by a script of Michael's (her husband) called Banji Girls" she explains. "Later, I discovered the real meaning of banji: To Go with God."
Brazelton married Michael George in 1991, they have one daughter.
Brazelton is present with two occupations having an acting career and a jewellery career. Brazelton is of African American
and Ugandan Jewish
ancestry.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
actress. She's perhaps best known for her recurring role as Nurse Conni Oligario on the hit NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
Medical drama
Medical drama
A medical drama is a television program, in which events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment.In the United States, most medical episodes are one hour long and, more often than not, are set in a hospital. Most current medical Dramatic programming go beyond the...
ER
ER (TV series)
ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
.
Biography
Brazelton was born and grew up in Waukegan, IllinoisWaukegan, Illinois
Waukegan is a city and county seat of Lake County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 87,901. The 2010 population was 89,078. It is the ninth-largest city in Illinois by population...
, attended Waukegan High School
Waukegan High School
Waukegan High School, or WHS, is a public, four-year high school located in Waukegan, Illinois, USA, a city to the North of Chicago, Illinois. WHS first opened its doors in 1870. Today, the Brookside Campus extends from Berwick Avenue to McAree Road, and from Brookside Avenue to the center line of...
and studied drama at Southern Illinois University
Southern Illinois University
Southern Illinois University is a state university system based in Carbondale, Illinois, in the Southern Illinois region of the state, with multiple campuses...
. After graduation she moved to New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
and then Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
where she lived for nine months in C.C.H. Pounder's house while she worked on the television show ER
ER (TV series)
ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
.
Brazelton designs jewelry for Banji Face Jewelry, a firm she owns with CCH Pounder
CCH Pounder
Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder , known professionally as C. C. H. Pounder , is a Guyanese-American film and television actress...
. Brazelton quoted, "I was inspired to the name by a script of Michael's (her husband) called Banji Girls" she explains. "Later, I discovered the real meaning of banji: To Go with God."
Brazelton married Michael George in 1991, they have one daughter.
Brazelton is present with two occupations having an acting career and a jewellery career. Brazelton is of African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
and Ugandan Jewish
History of the Jews in Uganda
The history of the Jews in Uganda is connected to some internal tribes who claim Jewish ancestry, such as the Abayudaya, down to the twentieth century when Uganda under British control was offered to the Jews of the world as a "Jewish homeland" under the British Uganda Programme known as the...
ancestry.
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Hill Street Blues Hill Street Blues Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. Chronicling the lives of the staff of a single police precinct in an unnamed American city, the show received critical acclaim and its production innovations ... |
Corinne | Episode: "Fathers and Guns" |
| Cagney & Lacey Cagney & Lacey Cagney & Lacey is an American television series that originally aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from October 8, 1981 to May 16, 1988... |
Professor Boucher | Episode: "The Rapist: Part 2" | |
| Misfits of Science Misfits of Science Misfits of Science is an American superhero fantasy television series that aired on NBC from October 1985 to February 1986. It featured a cast of super-powered humans and their madcap adventures... |
Director | Episode: "Grand Elusion" | |
| 1994–2003 | ER ER (TV series) ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television... |
Nurse Connie Oligario | |
| 2005 | Crossing Jordan Crossing Jordan Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that aired on NBC from September 24, 2001 to May 16, 2007. It stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Medical Examiner's Office... |
Dr. Ford | Episode: "Skin and Bone" |
| 2009 | Private Practice | Judge | Episode: "Strange Bedfellows" |