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Feb 19, 2007 · After 12 years on television’s enduring hit medical drama, ER, last month Emmy-winning actor and director Laura Innes finally hung up her stethoscope as Dr. Kerry Weaver, the hospital’s resident tough-as-nails administrator and lesbian.
Feb 28, 2018 · Dr Weaver’s limp ended up becoming a real problem for Laura Innes. Getty Images In season 11, Dr Weaver undergoes a surgery for her congenital hip dysplasia to eliminate her limp.
For a dozen seasons, Laura Innes played ER’s Dr. Kerry Weaver, a tart-tongued surgeon with an unnamed disability that caused her to walk with a limp. Initially Innes, who is able bodied, thought little of that aspect of her new role.
Feb 28, 2019 · FIGHTING FOR THE DISABLED. 2019-02-28 -. MEDICAL emergencies were nothing new to actress Laura Innes when she joined NBC’s hit medical drama ER in 1995, as lesbian doc Kerry Weaver, who used a cane and limped. As an infant, Laura swallowed an acorn, requiring three tracheostomies, suffered a burst appendix in 1987 and her first child, Cal ...
Eventually, in Season 11, we learned that Weaver's limp was caused by congenital hip dysplasia, and in the following season, she had corrective surgery that allowed her to walk without use of the cane.
Laura Innes is an American actress and television director. She is best known for her starring role as Kerry Weaver in the medical drama ER (1995–2009), which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
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In 2006, Innes told the Daily Mirror that ten years of portraying Dr. Kerry Weaver's limp had caused her to experience the early stages of actual spinal damage, and that as a consequence, the showrunners decided to have Weaver undergo surgery that would remove her limp.
