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Dana Delany

Milestones

  • Birthplace: New York, New York
  • Birthday: March 13, 1956
  • 2006

    Guest-starred on an episode of Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi)

  • 2004

    Appeared on an episode of ABC s freshman drama Boston Legal as a friend of Alan Shore (James Spader)

  • 2004

    Cast in Lifetime s Baby for Sale

  • 2002

    Co-Starred in the CBS drama series Presidio Med, which also co-starred Blythe Danner

  • 2001

    Made guest appearance on the CBS drama Family Law ; received Emmy nomination

  • 2000

    Joined cast of the Pulitzer-winning Off-Broadway play Dinner With Friends

  • 1999

    Had lead in the small screen remake of Resurrection ; played a woman who develops healing powers after surviving an automobile accident

  • 1998

    Played opposite Martin Donovan in the Showtime original drama Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples

  • 1997

    Starred in the CBS miniseries True Women

  • 1996

    Appeared in Fly Away Home

  • 1996

    Starred in the ABC TV-movie For Hope , playing a schoolteacher stricken with schleroderma

  • 1996

    Voiced the character of Lois Lane on the animated series Superman (The WB)

  • 1995

    Portrayed birth control advocate Margaret Sanger in the Lifetime TV biopic Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story

  • 1995

    Returned to Broadway as co-star of the short-lived Translations

  • 1994

    Played first leading role in a feature, cast as a leather-clad dominatrix in the comedy-drama Exit to Eden

  • 1993

    Cast as actress Josephine Marcus in the feature Western Tombstone

  • 1993

    Had featured role as James Belushi s wife in the ABC miniseries Wild Palms

  • 1992

    Returned to feature films after a four-year absence to play prominent supporting roles in Housesitter and Schrader s Light Sleeper

  • 1988 to 1991

    Breakthrough TV role as Nurse Coleen McMurphy on the ABC drama China Beach ; won two Emmy Awards for the role

  • 1988

    First film with Paul Schrader, Patty Hearst

  • 1987

    TV series debut in NBC s Sweet Surrender

  • 1984

    Primetime TV debut in the busted NBC pilot The Streets

  • 1981

    Briefly acted on the CBS daytime serial As the World Turns

  • 1981

    Feature debut, small role in The Fan , starring Lauren Bacall

  • 1980

    Performed in the Broadway play A Life

  • 1979 to 1980

    Appeared in the CBS soap opera Love of Life

  • After college, moved to NYC to pursue an acting career

  • Appeared in the Off-Broadway and L.A. stagings of Bloodmoon by Nicholas Kazan

  • Began appearing in TV commercials

  • Raised in Stamford, Connecticut

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