- Maggie O'Connell
Mary Margaret O’Connell, known as Maggie, is a
fiction al character in the television series "Northern Exposure ", and was played by actressJanine Turner . [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005508/ Janine Turner] from [http://www.imdb.com The Internet Movie Database] ]Fictional biography
Maggie was born in
Grosse Pointe, Michigan , to the youngestCEO inautomotive history. She became abush pilot at an early age and went toAlaska with herboyfriend Dave, who was writing a book onmountain climbing . He fell asleep unprotected on aglacier and froze to death.Maggie remained in the small town of Cicely,
Alaska , flying an air taxi and supplementing her income as the local real estate agent. She served a term asmayor of Cicely.She has a
love-hate relationship with the town's residentphysician ,Joel Fleischman , to whom she was even engaged at one point. However, in the end, Maggie ends up with Chris Stevens.Victims of the "O’Connell Curse"
Maggie's
boyfriend s have all died in improbable accidents. Cicely residents attribute this to the "O’Connell Curse", though Maggie denies it and Joel refuses to believe in it. Her most recent beau, fellow pilot Rick Pedersen, was hit by a fallingsatellite .* Steve Escandon was hit by
lightning while photographing anoil rig for a corporation's annual report.
* Harry ate taintedpotato salad on apicnic .
* Bruce had an unspecifiedfishing accident.
* Glen took a wrong turn (in hisVolvo , according to Chris Stevens) onto amissile test range.
* Dave took a nap on aglacier .
* Rick Pederson was hit by a fallingsatellite .She had a brief relationship with Mike Monroe, an ex-lawyer with
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity [MCS] during the fourth season. Mike inadvertently fell victim to Maggie's curse, but only in the sense that it wasn't fatal, but actually cured him of his condition and inspired him to practice environmental law.References
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