Stephanie Hodge
A brash stand-up comic turned sitcom lead, Stephanie Hodge first caught the attention of TV audiences as the cynical Sandy Miller in the NBC sitcom "Nurses." Series creator Susan Harris created the role specifically for the comic, who was on the show for two years (1991-93) before being unceremoniously fired when the network wanted to add Loni Anderson as the show's lead. Hodge rebounded as the taskmaster wife and mother (whose character was briefly a ghost) on The WB sitcom "Unhappily Ever After" on which she appeared from 1995 to 1998.