Judy Farrell (born May 11, 1938) is an American actress most noted for her role as Nurse Able on the television comedy series M*A*S*H. She performed small roles in several other television series, then later wrote 13 episodes for the soap opera Port Charles.Farrell was born Judy Hayden and raised in Quapaw, Oklahoma. She graduated from Oklahoma State University with a fine arts degree in theater. While studying for a master's degree at UCLA in 1961, she met actor Mike Farrell.