Nakahara was born in
Honolulu. Before becoming an actress, Nakahara moved to
San Francisco to pursue a career in art. In 1967, she married David Wallett and moved to
Los Angeles where she began a career as an actress. Halfway through the first season of
M*A*S*H, she was cast as Nurse Kellye; she appeared in 167 episodes of the long-running series. Following the series finale of
M*A*S*H, Nakahara appeared in television commercials as a spokesperson for
IBM. She appeared in several other television shows, and had small parts in the films
Clue (1985) as Mrs. Ho, the domestic cook, and in 1995's
Black Day Blue Night. She also played a labor and delivery nurse in the 1988 John Hughes film ''
She's Having a Baby''. Nakahara was also a
watercolor artist, who painted and exhibited under her married name, Kellye Wallett. ==Death==