[1] Before becoming an actress, Nakahara moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in art.
[3] In 1967, she married David Wallett and moved to Los Angeles where she began a career as an actress.
[4] 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.
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.
[6] Nakahara was also a watercolor artist, who painted and exhibited under her married name, Kellye Wallett.