Editing Sherry Stringfield (section)

===Early career===
She got her first role on the [[CBS Daytime]] [[soap opera]] ''[[Guiding Light]]'', playing [[Blake Marler|Christina "Blake" Thorpe]] from 1989 until 1992. After three years she left the show to spend a year traveling [[Europe]], but soon returned to television on the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] drama, ''[[NYPD Blue]]''. She played [[Manhattan]] Assistant District Attorney Laura Kelly, the ex-wife of officer [[John Kelly (NYPD Blue)|John Kelly]] ([[David Caruso]]) during the first season (1993–94) of the series. Unsatisfied, she was released early from her contract.<ref name="why" >{{cite news| url = https://ew.com/article/1997/10/17/sherry-stringfield-goodbye-girl/| title = Why I left ER, by Sherry Stringfield| publisher = Entertainment Weekly| date = 1997-10-17| access-date = 2007-02-24| first = Dana| last = Kennedy| archive-date = 2009-04-21| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090421153230/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,289870,00.html| url-status = live}}</ref>