U.S. actress Mary Ellen Trainor, who starred in films like “The Goonies” and “Lethal Weapon,” has died at the age of 62.

    Trainor was best-known for playing the mother, Irene Walsh, in “The Goonies,” and police psychiatrist Dr. Stephanie Woods in all four “Lethal Weapon” movies.

    She was married to director Robert Zemeckis for 20 years and appeared in several of his films including “Forrest Gump” and “Back to the Future Part II.”

    She died last month of complications from pancreatic cancer.

    Trainor began her Hollywood career as a producer’s assistant on movies such as Steven Spielberg’s 1979 film “1941,” which Zemeckis wrote.

    The pair married the following year and Zemeckis cast his wife as the kidnapped sister of Kathleen Turner’s character in 1984’s “Romancing the Stone.”

    She went on to win parts in other classic 1980s movies like “Die Hard,” “Scrooged” and “Ghostbusters II.”

    On TV, she had regular roles on sitcom “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose” and dramas “Relativity” and “Roswell.”

    (SD-Agencies)