Dana Delany
Milestones
- Birthplace: New York, New York
- Birthday: March 13, 1956
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2006
Guest-starred on an episode of Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi)
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2004
Appeared on an episode of ABC s freshman drama Boston Legal as a friend of Alan Shore (James Spader)
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2004
Cast in Lifetime s Baby for Sale
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2002
Co-Starred in the CBS drama series Presidio Med, which also co-starred Blythe Danner
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2001
Made guest appearance on the CBS drama Family Law ; received Emmy nomination
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2000
Joined cast of the Pulitzer-winning Off-Broadway play Dinner With Friends
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1999
Had lead in the small screen remake of Resurrection ; played a woman who develops healing powers after surviving an automobile accident
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1998
Played opposite Martin Donovan in the Showtime original drama Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples
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1997
Starred in the CBS miniseries True Women
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1996
Appeared in Fly Away Home
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1996
Starred in the ABC TV-movie For Hope , playing a schoolteacher stricken with schleroderma
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1996
Voiced the character of Lois Lane on the animated series Superman (The WB)
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1995
Portrayed birth control advocate Margaret Sanger in the Lifetime TV biopic Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story
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1995
Returned to Broadway as co-star of the short-lived Translations
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1994
Played first leading role in a feature, cast as a leather-clad dominatrix in the comedy-drama Exit to Eden
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1993
Cast as actress Josephine Marcus in the feature Western Tombstone
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1993
Had featured role as James Belushi s wife in the ABC miniseries Wild Palms
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1992
Returned to feature films after a four-year absence to play prominent supporting roles in Housesitter and Schrader s Light Sleeper
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1988 to 1991
Breakthrough TV role as Nurse Coleen McMurphy on the ABC drama China Beach ; won two Emmy Awards for the role
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1988
First film with Paul Schrader, Patty Hearst
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1987
TV series debut in NBC s Sweet Surrender
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1984
Primetime TV debut in the busted NBC pilot The Streets
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1981
Briefly acted on the CBS daytime serial As the World Turns
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1981
Feature debut, small role in The Fan , starring Lauren Bacall
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1980
Performed in the Broadway play A Life
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1979 to 1980
Appeared in the CBS soap opera Love of Life
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After college, moved to NYC to pursue an acting career
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Appeared in the Off-Broadway and L.A. stagings of Bloodmoon by Nicholas Kazan
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Began appearing in TV commercials
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Raised in Stamford, Connecticut