Dana Delany

At 68 years old, Dana Delany has this physical status:

Dana Welles Delany (born March 13, 1956) is an American actor, producer, and activist.

Delany began her career with small roles as Colleen McMurphy in ABC television drama China Beach (1988–1991), for which she twice received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1989 and 1992.

She received more prominence for her appearances in the films Light Sleeper (1992), Tombstone (1993), Exit to Eden (1994), and Wide Awake (1998). Delany appeared in several short-lived television series, including Pasadena (2001), Presidio Med (2002–2003), and Kidnapped (2006–2007).

Katherine Mayfair appeared on ABC's Desperate Housewives from 2007 to 2010, for which she was given the Prism Award in 2009.

Megan Hunt on ABC Medical drama Body of Proof (2011–2013), and Crystal Harris on the Amazon drama series Hand of God (2014–2017).

Early life

Delany was born in New York City, the daughter of Mary and Jack Delany. She has a sister, Corey, and a brother, Sean. She is of Irish and English descent and was raised Roman Catholic. She has said that even as a young child, she always wanted to go into acting. According to a reporter, "the reason a person first steps into acting is because you want attention from your parents as a little child." She went to many Broadway shows in her youth and was captivated by films.

She attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, for her senior year, and was a participant of the school's first co-educational class after growing up in Stamford, Connecticut. In 1974, Then-senior Delany op-ed about her first year as a one-year student during the school's first year of co-education. "Andover was the greatest time of my life," she recalled. Emile Nellie Forbush in the school's spring musical production of South Pacific opposite Peter Kahn appeared as Emile. "It was just a little uncomfortable to be Nellie at first because she refused to marry Emile because he had once lived with a Polynesian woman," she said. In a film class taught by Steve Marx, she appeared in a student video directed by classmate Jonathan Meath. She graduated from 1974 with the academic distinction of being nominated to the Cum Laude Society's school chapter, a distinction that was given to 80 percent of 378 graduating seniors.

She majored in theater at Wesleyan University, where (among other productions) she appeared in one of Mara Irene Fornés' feminist play Fefu and Her Friends in the first performances. Until graduating in 1978, Delany also worked summer stock raisings during vacations. In a later interview, she confessed to experiencing eating disorders during this time of her life. "I binged" she said. I was starving... I was just a step away from anorexia: a piece of toast and an apple would be all I could eat in a day.

Personal and public life

Delany served on the Hollywood Women's Political Committee. Delany has been on the board of Scleroderma Research Foundation since the mid-1990s, and with her companion Sharon Monsky, she campaigned for relief in finding a cure for scleroderma. She appeared in the television film For Hope (1996), based on Saget's sister Gay, who died as a result of the disease, based on Saget's sister Gay, who had died as a result of the disease. She appeared on Celebrity Jeopardy in 2001, 2006, and 2009 to raise money for scleroderma research. "These women are not only their own lives in some instances, but also robs their families, which include countless children," Scleroderma wrote in 2002.

Delany is a board member of the Creative Coalition, an arts advocacy group. She appeared in onstage in New York in June 2009 alongside White House social secretary Desiree Rogers to discuss how to foster American cinematic innovation. Delany was named co-president of the Creative Coalition in August 2009, bringing Tim Daly into the team's leadership. In an interview, Delany expressed her support for the arts: "I just think it's so important for children and the country's future and people's general happiness." I'm one of those people who, whether I'm physically or mentally exhausted, I go to a museum or a film, and I'm transported." She appeared in fundraising activities that promote the rights of same-sex couples to marry.

In addition, she has endorsed Planned Parenthood. In 2006, she attended the organization's 90th birthday celebration in New York City. "It's difficult to imagine where we'd be in this world if Margaret Sanger did not create the first clinic in New York, 90 years ago," Delany said. She appeared at events sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. She ran for President Hillary Clinton in 2016 as a Democrat.

Delany has never been married nor had any children. In an interview in 2006, she talked about her personal life: "I turned 50 and I'm ready to get married." I'm not sure who he is, but I'm excited... He has to be as smart, joking, and kind as possible." "Marriage has never been a big deal for me," she wrote a year later. But I think I'm set now... I want to have all the fun in the world, meet a lot of people, and figure out what I love doing." Delany (in 1988) said she doesn't find being a celebrity to be alluring: "I'm not a 'personality.' I am never recognized, which I take as a compliment. Publicity has a love-hate relationship with me.

Delany, a 2003 botox injection, tried botox injections in her forehead, but the needle struck a nerve and caused a bruise in her right eye, causing it to droop slightly. She vowed never to have plastic surgery in 2010. She told Prevention in 2010 that she likes eating healthily, including vegetables, tofu, fish, gluten-free pasta, and bread.

Delany ranked 9th in People magazine's annual Top 100 Most Beautiful lists in April 2011.

Delany wrote about her acting in 2019:

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Career

She began performing in commercials such as Wisk laundry detergent in New York City after college, including Love of Life and As the World Turns. In 1983, she appeared in A Life in Nicholas Kazan's off-Broadway Blood Moon, where The New York Times praised her "skillful verisimilitude" in a demanding role that demands two different roles "and she does it both with authority." Delany moved to Hollywood and found work in television shows such as Moonlighting and Magnum, P.I., for the next two years. Thirtysomething and Thirtysomething.

Colleen McMurphy, Delany's first attempt at the lead role, was unsuccessful. In an interview, she said, "They didn't think I wasn't pretty enough." She eventually earned the role after the producers lost their first choice (she had cut her hair at the request of producer Paul Schrader who had cast her in the film Patty Hearst). From 1988 to 1991, China Beach attracted a lot of media interest, particularly because of the actress's heightened media attention. This role received two Primetime Emmy Awards, but two additional Primetime Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Award nominations were not included in the package. In 1991, the show came to an end.

Delany was selected by People magazine as one of the world's most beautiful people in 1991. Delany spent years after China Beach working in television, film, and theater. In addition, she established herself as a top voice actor.

Delany has appeared in a number of films, including the TV film A Promise to Keep, Light Sleeper, Housesitter, and Fly Away Home, as well as the TV mini-series Wild Palms. In addition, actress Mistress Lisa in Exit to Eden, where one film critic said, "The script was horrible—Dana looked fantastic." Josephine Marcus, her love interest and future bride, played her best known role of the decade in blockbuster Tombstone in 1992.

The stage was set for the triumph she would see later in her career as she became a box office draw in her own right. At a bachelorette party, live Nude Girls included open discussion by women of their sexual fantasies in a low-budget improvisational comedy style with good chemistry between the actors. Reports were mixed: Richard Natale, a Los Angeles Times writer, loved the film but wrote an older male film executive who thought it was "uncommercial" but "didn't have a lot of substance" and viewers "don't get to know the characters in the film." Margaret Sanger appeared in the television film Choices of the Heart (1995), the controversial nurse who campaigned for women's reproductive rights in the early 1900s.

Delany appeared in the Broadway show Translations in 1995, and in May 1997, she returned to her alma mater Phillips Academy to work with theater students as an artist-in-residence. She appeared in television shows such as True Women (1997) and Resurrection (1999).

According to reports, Delany renounced Carrie Bradshaw's role in the hit TV show Sex and the City in 1998. She canceled the role partly due to poor audience reaction she received in a similar film, Exit to Eden, a few years ago. Sex and the City became a hit series, and Carrie's appearance made Sarah Jessica Parker world-famous.

In an episode of the television series Family Law (1999), Delany appeared as a gun-toting mother, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, but the program was not rerun due to sponsorship withdrawal.

Delany has done a good job with voice. Andrea Beaumont appeared in the 1993 animated film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, based on the popular television show Batman: The Animated Series. Delany's voice in the film impressed filmmakers, leading to her being cast as Lois Lane in Superman: The Animated Series, which also mentions Bruce Wayne in the crossover episode "World's Finest." In one version of Animaniacs' theme song, she was also listed by name, according to another Warner Bros. production. Lois Lane appeared in Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, and The Batman, reversing her role as Lois Lane for the character's guest appearances. Vilsi, an alternate universe interpretation of Lois Lane, returned to the DC Universe in an episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold. Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, a 2013 animated film starring her.

Delany continued to work on a variety of platforms, including pilots, TV series, made-for-TV films, and feature films. She appeared in the NBC drama Good Guys/Bad Guys (2000), which Newsweek characterized as a "Sopranos knock-off." She appeared in Pasadena (2001), a Fox film with a "twisted rich-family saga" with a "great cast." In an interview, Delany said, "You can see Pasadena as a black comedy or see it as tragic." A number of soaps on television now don't have the same tragic flavor to them. Final Jeopardy (2001), an actor and co-executive producer. "Delany, as always, does pensive and independent better than most actresses," a writer for New York Daily News TV critic David Bianculli gave her a favorable review. She portrayed herself as a physician in the TV series Presidio Med (2002) as a "conventional but pleasant drama populated by characters dedicated to medicine who also have tumultuous personal lives." She appeared in TV shows including A Time to Remember (2003) and Baby for Sale (2004). She appeared in independent film franchises such as The Outfitters (1999), Mother Ghost (2004), and Spin (2003).

Since learning her husband's involvement in the Pulitzer-prize winning Dinner With Friends (2000, Los Angeles, Boston), she performed an artsy and incompetent woman questioning society's "imposed values of society" after discovering her husband's affair in the Pulitzer-prize winning Dinner With Friends (2000, New York City, Boston); her appearance earned favorable feedback throughout. She appeared Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (2003, San Diego); one commentator characterized Delany and actor Billy Campbell's "verbal sparring" between them as a "joy."

Delany appeared on television shows ranging from 2004 to 2006, such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Boston Legal, Kojak, Int., Battlestar Galactica, and Battlestar Galactica. She appeared in Kidnapped (2006), a short-lived television series. "Delany is alternately agitated and despondent as Ellie," one commentator wrote, and she and Hutton (Timothy Hutton) can do more without words than some actors can do with pages of dialogue. They're completely convincing as wealthy, complicated Manhattanites, and as parents who come face with the frightening truth that they can't always protect their children.

After returning to the United States, Delany appeared as herself in the TV series Vietnam Nurses with Dana Delany, which explored their lives and care. According to Los Angeles Times writer Susan King, Delany has been "something of a hero to the nurses who served in Vietnam." The actress was part of a nationwide nurse recruitment initiative called the McMurphy Project in 1990.

Delany appeared in the films A Beautiful Life, Camp Hope, and Multiple Sarcasms in 2007.

Delany had initially turned down the opportunity to portray Bree Van De Kamp, one of the four Desperate Housewives' main characters, because it was too similar to her character on Pasadena. With high ratings, the show became a well-known prime-time soap opera. However, she was still a supporting housewife when she was cast in the well-established series for the 2007–08 season. Delany's reaction was positive; one observer wrote, "Encountering Dana Delany as Katherine Mayfair in Season 4 is one of the most intelligent things Cherry has ever done." Delany makes it seem that not many actors can deftly deliver both comedy and drama, but it does not appear that these actors are as good as it is." Katherine Mayfair wrote about playing housewife Katherine Mayfair: "It's been the most difficult thing for me was figuring out the tone of the piece because it's such a specific tone – so it was more of an acting challenge than anything else." "I hope that she doesn't lose her snarkiness," she said in 2008, "it's always am amusing to play." Delany will reprise her appearance on Desperate Housewives for season five on May 13, 2008, having been promoted to the sixth lead.

Delany appeared as FBI agent Jordan Shaw in a two-part series on the TV show Castle, starring Nathan Fillion, who played her character's second husband on Desperate Housewives in March 2010.

Delany has arranged Desperate Housewives to appear in the new ABC series Body of Evidence, which was supposed to premiere in late 2010. Margaret Rosenblatt was also featured in the film Firebreather in 2010.

Delany, a doctor, became a brilliant neurosurgeon and medical examiner in 2011, after a car crash caused her to lose dexterity in her hands. Delany had an encounter similar to her character Dr. Megan Hunt's in real life. Delany's vehicle was struck by a bus in Santa Monica two weeks before filming the pilot episode; two fingers of her hand were broken and her vehicle was totaled. Delany's character in Body of Proof is described as "complex, smart, and certainly complicated."

Delany's annual list of the Top Beautiful People in April 2011 ranked him 9th in the People magazine's annual 100 Most Beautiful List.

Delany was the host of the fourth annual Television Academy Honors in May 2011.

Delany appeared in the crime drama Freelancers with producer Jessy Terrero. Robert De Niro, Forest Whitaker, and 50 Cent are also included in the film. It was limited to DVD in theaters on August 21, 2012, and in theatres, only limited theatres were available.

Delany, the primetime guest host on Turner Classic Movies, appeared on December 26, 2016. She appeared in hundreds of wraparounds on the channel, filling in for Robert Osborne.

In August 2018, Delany appeared on CBS' Drama The Code.

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