Sharon Gless

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Sharon Marguerite Gless (born May 31, 1943) is an American actress, who is known for her television roles as Maggie Philbin on Switch (1975–78), Sgt.

Christine Cagney in the police procedural drama series Cagney & Lacey (1982–88), the title role in The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (1990–92), Debbie Novotny in the Showtime cable television series Queer as Folk (2000–2005), and Madeline Westen on Burn Notice (2007–2013).

A 10-time Emmy Award nominee and seven-time Golden Globe Award nominee, she won a Golden Globe in 1986 and Emmys in 1986 and 1987 for Cagney & Lacey, and a second Golden Globe in 1991 for The Trials of Rosie O'Neill.

Gless received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995.

Personal life

In 1991, Gless married Barney Rosenzweig, the producer of Cagney & Lacey.

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Early life and career

Gless, a fifth-generation Californian, was born in Los Angeles, California, and the niece of Marjorie (McCarthy) and sportswear manufacturing executive Dennis J. Gless was born. She was born Catholic. Michael McCarthy Gless and Arick Dennis Gless are her two brothers. When she was in her teens, her parents divorced. Neil McCarthy, a well-known Los Angeles lawyer who also had a large clientele of major film studio executives and actors, was her maternal grandfather. She wanted to be a star, but her grandfather gave her his advice and told her, "Stay out of it, it's a filthy profession." A few years later, when she talked to him again about acting, he encouraged her and gave her money for acting classes.

She worked as a secretary for Grey Advertising & Young & Rubicam and then for independent film production companies Sassafras Film Corporation and GM & Corporation.

Gless, a production assistant, loved drama with acting coach Estelle Harman. She began working with Universal Studios in 1972 and stayed on the job until Universal ended all unions in 1981. She was branded as the last of the contract players in the media, a salaried, old Hollywood apprentice scheme that Universal was the last to hire near the end of her term.

Elizabeth Baur, an actor, was Gless' first cousin.

Career

Gless appeared in several television series and television films, including Revenge of the Stepford Wives, Faraday & Company, 1973 and 1974, episode 24, Emergency! In 1975, he was a sculptor and the Rockford Files. She appeared in Marcus Welby, M.D., for a brief period of time. (1969–1976) before being given the role of Kathleen Faverty, which she played from 1974 to 1976. This was in addition to a number of guest appearances on television, including Maggie Philbin, the classy young secretary who appeared alongside Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner on the CBS private detective/con artist series Switch (1975–1978). Despite being a newcomer to the series, she did a fantastic job with both Albert and Wagner, both on and off-screen. When the show was cancelled after the third season, she thanked Albert and Wagner for providing a jump start to her career and remained close friends with them.

She appeared in a number of films, including the 1979 Steven Bochco television sitcom Turnabout (based on a Thorne Smith 1931 book about a husband and wife who had to temporarily switch bodies), and the sitcom House Calls, in which Lynn Redgrave was replaced by a labor controversy).

Meg Foster was replaced by actress Meg Foster in the role of NYPD police detective Christine Cagney on Cagney & Lacey, beginning with the series's seventh episode/first full season. (In Loretta Swit's pilot series, the role had been created.) Swit, like Foster, was chosen as Cagney because, although the character of Cagney had been created with Gless in mind, she was unable to attend either the pilot or the first seven installments of the first season. Barney Rosenzweig, the series's executive producer, started the series in 1991 and Gless was unaffordable due to her relationship with Universal.

Rosenzweig created the CBS drama series The Trials of Rosie O'Neill for Gless in 1990 to 1992, and Rosie O'Neill, uncredited, was the only partially seen psychiatrist to whom Fiona "Rosie" O'Neill confided at the start of each episode. Gless, who had received six Emmy nominations for her role as Cagney, received two more Emmy nominations and her second Golden Globe nomination for her second Golden Globe win in this upcoming series.

Gless and her television companion, Tyne Daly, re-created their titles in a series of critically acclaimed and well-received Cagney & Lacey television films between 1993 and 1995. "The Menopause Years" were jokingly described by Gless and Tyne Daly.

Gless narrated Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.

Debbie Novotny, Hal Sparks' mother, appeared in her most popular and critically acclaimed role since Cagney & Lacey in the acclaimed Showtime cable television series Queer as Folk from 2000 to 2005.

She appeared on "The Perfect Game" on Touched by an Angel in 2000.

Gless, along with ex-Switch co-stars Robert Wagner and Charlie Callas, died on May 26, 2005.

Gless appeared on BBC television show The State Within in 2006. Madeline Westen, Michael Westen's (Jeffrey Donovan) mother, co-starred in the USA Network cable television series Burn Notice for the next year. In addition,, Gless appeared on several episodes of the FX Network cable television series Nip/Tuck as an ambiguous agent named Colleen Rose, which earned her an Emmy Award nomination.

Gless starred in her first role in the independent film Hannah Free (Ripe Fruit Films) in 2009 as a woman who calls home after a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she identifies as. The film is based on a screenplay by Claudia Allen, a Jeff Award-winning playwright, and directed by Wendy Jo Carlton.

In 2017, it was announced that Gless would appear in one episode of the world's longest-running medical drama as surgeon Zsa Zsa Harper-Jenkinson. She appears in the thirteenth episode of the serial's thirty-second series. Zsa Zsa Zsa was a "wonderful character," Gless said. One of the producers invited Gless to participate in the exhibition and expressed a keen interest in reprising the role. The appearance of Gless was the first time the show has flown an American to the United Kingdom to film a role. On the October 13, 2018 episode, she reprised her role.

Gless served on the Los Angeles Student Film Institute's advisory board.

Jane Juska in A Round-Heeled Woman, Jane Prowse's stage version of Jane Juska's book A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance was her most recent stage appearance. In early 2010, the first production in San Francisco debuted. Sharon appeared in a new production in Miami, directed by Jane Prowse in December 2010. In November 2011, a performance in London changed from Riverside Studios to the Aldwych Theatre, where the show came to a close on January 14, 2012.

At Stage West in Springfield, Massachusetts, Gless made her debut in Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine. Gless has extensive stage experience, including two appearances in London's West End, first with Bill Paterson in 1993 when she created Annie Wilkes in Stephen King's Misery on stage, and then with Tom Conti in Neil Simon's Chapter Two in 1996.

She appeared in The Victory Gardens Theater in Claudia Allen's Cahoots, as well as several stints, including an evening with the National Company of Eve Ensler's The Vain Monologues, in Madison Square Garden. On October 17, 2011, Gless appeared on The Alan Titchmarsh Show.

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