From 1994 to 2009 she had a regular role as nurse
Lily Jarvik on the
NBC television series
ER. She has appeared in many films such as
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,
Mighty Joe Young,
The Shadow,
The New Age,
The Doctor and
Extraordinary Measures. Mariye has guest-starred in over 25 television shows including
Teen Wolf,
Criminal Minds,
Shameless,
NCIS: Los Angeles,
Judging Amy,
Ally McBeal,
Family Ties,
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and
Chicago Hope. She is also an award-winning theatre actress, performing in
New York,
Los Angeles and other regional theatres around the country. Mariye's debut feature film as a
writer and
director,
Model Minority had its world premiere at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, where it received three awards: Special Jury Outstanding Director, Breakthrough Performance by a New Actor and Outstanding Cinematography as well as being a nominee for the Grand Jury Prize in Narrative Feature Filmmaking.
Model Minority also won Best Micro-Budget Film and Best Female Director at The London Independent Film Festival, and Outstanding Feature at The Sacramento International Film Festival. She has written several full-length screenplays, one of which,
The Shangri-la Cafe, was accepted into the second round of the application process for development in the Sundance Feature Film Labs.
The Shangri-la Cafe won Best Screenplay at the Ohio International Independent Film Festival and the Gaffers Film Festival, and won her a grant from the
AFI Conservatory's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, 13th Cycle. While at AFI she produced and directed an award-winning short film version of the script (Best Short Film Award - Moondance International Film Festival, Best Screenplay Award - Brussels Independent Film Festival). The short film version of
The Shangri-la Cafe was included on a DVD release of AFI shorts entitled
Celebrating AFI. In 2012, Mariye was chosen to participate in the Disney/ABC/DGA Directing Program. In 2016, she directed Episode 14, Season 4 of ABC's
Nashville and
season 5, episode 14 after the show moved to CMT. She also directed an episode of Season 2 of Amazon's
Just Add Magic and episode 17, Season 4 of Freeform's
The Fosters. In 2016, she participated in The CBS Directing Initiative. In 2017, Mariye directed episodes of
Chicago P.D.,
NCIS: Los Angeles and helmed her third episode on
Nashville. In 2018 Mariye directed two episodes of CBS's
Criminal Minds,
Chicago P.D.,
NCIS: Los Angeles,
MacGyver and
The Enemy Within. In 2018 she received a DGA Award Nomination at the 70th Annual DGA Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Program for her work on
Just Add Magic. Mariye also received the Visionary Award from
East West Players in April 2018 for her contributions in raising "the visibility of the
Asian Pacific American (APA) community through [her] craft." ==Personal life==