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A beloved sitcom actress from the 1990s was spotted dashing around sweltering Los Angeles this week as she ran her errands.
Her star-making series was a workplace comedy that ran eight seasons on NBC, although she herself only featured on the final three.
She was associated with two other iconic TV comedies, having auditioned for one and been married to the leading man of another.
On the big screen, she worked with the era's reigning A-listers including Jim Carrey and Julia Roberts and served as a replacement for Daryl Hannah.
When she surfaced this week, her face was shaded by sunglasses and a wide-brimmed hat, but her winning features were still distinct at the age of 63.
Can you guess who she is?
A beloved sitcom actress from the 1990s was spotted dashing around sweltering Los Angeles this week as she ran her errands
When she surfaced this week, her face was shaded by sunglasses and a wide-brimmed hat, but her winning features were still distinct at the age of 63
Her star-making series was a workplace comedy that ran eight seasons on NBC, although she herself only featured on the final three
She is none other than Amy Yasbeck, who featured on Wings as Casey, the sister of the sitcom's principal female character Helen, played by Crystal Bernard.
The Daily Mail has contacted Yasbeck's representative for comment.
Set largely at an airport, Wings starred Tim Daly and Steven Weber respectively as two pilots called Joe and Brian who happen also to be brothers.
The series was spun off from Cheers and contained guest appearances from several of the original show's alumni, including Kelsey Grammer and the late Kirstie Alley.
Yasbeck, who was added to the cast on season six, has shared that she 'loved' being the 'new one' on set, absorbing the dynamics between the established actors.
Joe and Helen were paired off as love interests who eventually married, while Brian and Casey would 'hate-F each other,' as Yasbeck characterized their bond on Still Here Hollywood.
Yasbeck also featured in Pretty Woman as the wife of the Jason Alexander character, who himself is the lawyer of the leading man played by Richard Gere.
She was a mainstay of what have become the classic comedy films of the 1990s, such as The Mask, starring her opposite Jim Carrey, or Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights, in which she played Maid Marian alongside Cary Elwes in the title role.
Yasbeck re-teamed with Brooks for Dracula: Dead and Loving It, which had Leslie Nielsen as the iconic vampire and also featured her Wings co-star Steven Weber.
She is none other than Amy Yasbeck, who featured (right) on Wings as Casey, the sister of the sitcom's principal female character Helen, played by Crystal Bernard (right)
Yasbeck, who was added to the cast on season six, has shared that she 'loved' being the 'new one' on set, absorbing the dynamics between the established actors
Set largely at an airport, Wings starred Tim Daly (right) and Steve Weber (second from left) respectively as two pilots called Joe and Brian who happen also to be brothers
Disney Channel fans may have glimpsed her on That's So Raven as the mother of the main character's best friend Chelsea, played by Anneliese van der Pol.
Born in Ohio to a Lebanese-Irish family, Amy Yasbeck entered the public eye as a child when she was pictured on the packaging of Betty Crocker's Easy-Bake Oven.
She caught the acting bug early and studied theater at the University of Detroit, only to drop out in order to move to New York and work.
Yasbeck jobbed around on several of the premier TV shows of the 1980s, including Dallas; Murphy Brown; Magnum, PI and Days of Our Lives.
Near the end of that decade she also auditioned unsuccessfully for what became the Julia Louis-Dreyfus role of Elaine Benes on Seinfeld.
In 1988 she reached homes around the country in Splash, Too, the made-for-TV sequel to Ron Howard's hit 1984 fantasy comedy Splash, which had starred Daryl Hannah in the part that Yasbeck eventually occupied on the small screen.
Then in 1990 she landed a supporting role in the comedy film Problem Child and struck up a romance with its leading man, Three's Company star John Ritter.
They dated throughout that decade before exchanging vows in 1999, just four years before his shock death of an aortic dissection at the age of only 54.
She could be spotted in several of the classic comedy films of the 1990s, such as The Mask, starring her opposite Jim Carrey (left)
In 1993 she appeared in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights, in which she played Maid Marian alongside Cary Elwes (left) in the title role
Yasbeck is pictured with her husband John Ritter in 2002, a year before his shock death of an aortic dissection when he was only 54 years old
At that point, their daughter Stella - who has since transitioned into a man called Noah - was only five years old and had just begun kindergarten.
While discussing Ritter's death, Yasbeck reflected that 'you can never imagine, until it happens to you, what it’s like to witness your child’s suffering,' via Today.
'As much pain as I was in, trying to wrap my head and heart around my own loss, nothing will ever compare with the absolute despair of experiencing this tragedy through my daughter’s eyes,' she added.
In the wake of the bereavement, Yasbeck dialed back her acting career in order to focus on family, but in the 2010s she stepped up her professional commitments and guested on such shows as Modern Family, Pretty Little Liars and Bones.
She was on an episode of The Bold and the Beautiful as recently as last year, and currently has a sports movie in the pipeline called The Big Game.
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