Linda Hoy is a character actress who appeared in the Puppetman pilot as production crew member Dee. Both the script and her end credit billing ("And Linda Hoy as 'Dee'") indicate she was intended to recur had the pilot gone to series.
Often cast as nurses or clerks, Hoy had a recurring role on The Wonder Years as Mrs. Ritvo and appeared in episodes of Quantum Leap, Three's Company, Little House on the Prairie, Dynasty, St. Elsewhere, Cheers, ALF, Night Court, Beauty and the Beast, and the 1980s Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Films include My Science Project (with Raphael Sbarge), Cracking Up (with Jerry Lewis), Soul Man (with James Earl Jones), and True Crime (with Clint Eastwood). She shifted to stage work after that, primarily in San Francisco.