Yvette Cruise
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Yvette Cruise is an actress born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, who later graduated from Iowa State University in the United States. She has worked in film and television across several decades, with credits including Stand and Deliver (1988), Criminal Behavior (1992), Flashfire (1994), and Phoenix (1998). On television, she made guest appearances on Seinfeld, ER, MacGyver, and Criminal Minds, and played a recurring nurse role across seasons two, three, and five of Grey's Anatomy (2005-2009).
In Ghostbusters II (1989), Cruise portrayed Maria, Dana Barrett's housekeeper and babysitter, who cares for baby Oscar in the film. The character is credited simply as Dana's Maid. Her last name was later adopted by the Ghostbusters expanded universe as Maria's canonical surname, appearing in IDW Publishing's Ghostbusters comic series and referenced in trivia annotations, making it one of the more unusual cases of an actor's name being folded directly into the fiction.
References
- Yvette Cruise on IMDb
- GBFans.com RAG corpus: Yvette Cruise (people article); Maria, Dana's Maid (character article)