Shelley Long
Shelley Long was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States on August 23rd, 1949 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 74, Shelley Long biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Shelley Lee Long (born August 23, 1949) is an American actress and comedian.
She is best known for her role as Diane Chambers on the hit sitcom Cheers, for which she received five Emmy nominations in 1983 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
She received two Golden Globe Awards for her role.
Diane Chambers appeared in four episodes of the spinoff Frasier, for which she received an additional guest star Emmy nomination.
She began appearing on ABC's Modern Family in 2009 as DeDe Pritchett. Long has appeared in many films, including Night Shift (1982), Irconcilable Differences (1984), Troop Beverly Hills (1989), A Very Brady Sequel (1995), and Dr. Connor (1994).
T & the Women (2000).
Early life
Shelley Long was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on August 23, 1949. She is the granddaughter of Ivadine, a school teacher, and Leland Long, a rubber teacher who worked in the rubber industry before becoming a teacher. She was active on her high school speech squad, as well as in the Indiana High School Forensic Association. In 1967, she was the National Forensic League's National Championship in Original Oratory.
She studied drama at Northwestern University but then moved to pursue a career in acting and modeling after graduating from South Side High School in Fort Wayne. When she first began doing local commercials for a Homemakers furniture store in the Chicago area, she had her first break as an actress.
Personal life
Ken Solomon's first marriage, long's first marriage, ended in divorce in the 1970s after only a few years. She met Bruce Tyson, a securities broker, in 1979. They married in 1981 and had a daughter, Juliana. Long and Tyson split in 2003 and divorced in 2004.
Career
She performed with The Second City comedy troupe in Chicago. She began writing, producing, and co-hosting the television show Sorting It Out on WMAQ-TV in 1975, and went on to win three Regional Emmys for her appearance on the program. Long advertisements for Homemakers Furniture and Camay soap were also on display in 1970s television commercials and commercials for Homemakers Furniture and Camay soap. In 1978, she appeared in A vignette on The Love Boat.
Long appeared in the television film The Cracker Factory in 1979 as a mental prisoner. M.D. and Trapper John, M.D., appeared on Family and Trapper John in the same year. In 1980, she appeared in A Small Circle of Friends, her first feature film role. The film about social unrest at Harvard University in the 1960s had a degree of critical success. She appeared in Caveman's 1981 appearance as Tala. She appeared in Nurse Mendenhall in a 1979 episode of M*A*S*H, Belinda, the good-natured prostitute neighbor of Henry Winkler's comedy Night Shift (also co-starring Michael Keaton), and appeared in Losin' It (1983). In Steven Spielberg's E.T., she was given the role of Mary, the mother. The Extra-Terrestrial was released, but she declined because she had already committed to appear in Night Shift.
Long, although she had already appeared in feature films, she became known for her appearance in Cheers' long-running television sitcom as Diane Chambers, who has a tense on-and-off relationship with Sam Malone. At first, the program was unable to please an audience, but it became one of the most popular on the air. Long left Cheers after season five in 1987 amid some controversies.
Ted Danson, a Cheers biography film, confessed that there was tension between them, but "never at a personal level and never at a work level" due to their different ways of working. Long was also more like her television appearance than she would have liked to admit, but she did not appear on television that many of her performances "carried the show." In later interviews, Long said that it didn't occur to her, when deciding to leave, that it would "sabotage a show" and that the remainder of the cast could continue without her.
Long talked to Graham Norton in 2003 about leaving for a variety of reasons, the most important of which was her desire to spend more time with her toddler daughter. Long said in a 2007 interview on Australian television that she "was a pleasure to work with" and that she related to co-star Nicholas Colasanto ("Coach"), who was "one of my closest friends on set." She said she left the show because she "didn't want to do the same episode over and over again, and the same story." "I didn't want it to get old and stale," the woman said. "Working at Cheers was a dream come true," she continued, "working at Cheers was one of my life's most pleasurable experiences." Well, I missed it, but I never regretted it."
Although appearing on Cheers simultaneously, she continued to appear in a number of motion pictures. In 1984, she was nominated for a Best Leading Actress Golden Globe for her appearance in Irreconcilable Differences. She appeared in a string of comedies, including The Money Pit, Outrageous Fortune, and Hello Again. She was also given lead roles in Working Girl, Jumpin' Jack Flash, and My Stepmother Is an Alien, but did not accept those positions.
She had signed a production deal with The Walt Disney Studios on August 12, 1986, Shesbinso Long Inc., to produce three films for the Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Films brands.
Troop Beverly Hills, a comedy in which a housewife who takes control of a 'Wilderness Girl' troop to bond with her daughter and distract herself from divorce proceedings, was her first post-Cheers project.
Long since 1990, the fact-based miniseries Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase. She was lauded for her role, which necessitated her to portray nearly 20 personalities. This brought her to more prominent roles in television dramas, after which she appeared in several more in the 1990s.
With Jami Gertz and Steve Guttenberg's comedy Don't Tell Me It's Me and Frozen Assets, a sperm bank that reunites her with Corbin Bernsen, a major feature film was followed.
She appeared in Fatal Memories: The Eileen Franklin Story, a fact-based television drama about a woman who recalls the trauma of being assaulted by her father and his children, as well as her uncle's murder of her childhood friend to discourage the child from "telling him." The fact that George Franklin's life term was convicted and sentencing was later reversibly dismissed owing to his still-controversial "recovered memories" based on his trial.
Lindsay Wagner appeared in the 1992 film A Message from Holly. Long is a workaholic who finds out that her best friend has cancer and just six months to live, and she remains with her in her last months.
The actress returned to Cheers for the show finale in 1993 and received another Emmy Award for her return as Diane. Treat Williams and Teri Garr appeared in the sitcom Good Advice, which also appeared in the two-season series Good Advice. Diane appeared in several episodes of Kelsey Grammer spinoff series Frasier, for which she was nominated for another Emmy Award.
Long appeared in The Brady Bunch Movie, a campy spin on the famous television show, fortnight. She reprised her role in A Very Brady Sequel, which had modest success, and The Brady Bunch in the White House in 1996. A number of ventures were launched, including the television version of Freaky Friday and Kelly Kelly's family sitcom, although these were limited to a few episodes. In a 1998 episode of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, she appeared as the Wicked Witch of the Beanstalk.
She appeared in another television film Vanished Without a Trace in 1999, about a woman who simply refuses to recognize her 13-year-old daughter's abduction and aggressively pursues the villain's capture (not to be confused with the 1996 film about the same name in 1976 Chowchilla). She appeared in Dr. T & the Women, directed by Robert Altman, in 2000. In the television film The Brady Bunch in the White House, she later returned for a third go-around as Carol Brady.
She appeared in numerous television shows, including 8 Simple Rules, Yes Dear, Strong Medicine, and Boston Legal. DeDe Pritchett, the ex-wife of Jay Pritchett, appeared on ABC's hit show Modern Family as DeDe Pritchett. She appeared in television films including Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door and Holiday Engagement. She appeared on Switched at Birth in 2012 as a guest host. She produced and appeared in the feature film Different Flowers in 2016.