Dana Delany

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Dana Delany
Delany in "A Time To Remember" 2003
Born	March 13, 1956 (age 51) New York City
Official site	http://www.danadelany.com
Notable roles	Colleen McMurphy in China Beach (TV)

Dana Welles Delany (born March 13, 1956 in New York City) is an American film, stage, and television actress.

Known mainly for her two-time Emmy Award winning performance as Colleen McMurphy on the ABC television show China Beach (1988-1991), Delany has been active in film, television, and stage since the late 1970s.

After growing up in Connecticut, Delany attended Phillips Academy in Andover, then Wesleyan University.

Her early career included a TV role on Love of Life (1979), performing on Broadway in A Life (1980), then back to TV on As the World Turns (1981). The west coast production of the controversial play Bloodmoon (1983-1984) took Dana to Hollywood. The next few years consisted of small parts in various films and TV guest spots, including an appearance on Moonlighting (1985) and three notable episodes on Magnum P.I. (1986).

She was cast as Colleen McMurphy on China Beach, airing from 1988 to 1991, bringing intense media attention to the actress. This role not only garnered two Emmy awards, but two other Emmy nominations, and two Golden Globe nominations.

Leveraging this newfound fame, she appeared in feature films such as Light Sleeper (1992), Housesitter (1992), Tombstone (1993), and Fly Away Home (1996) and TV movies such as Promise to Keep (1991), and Wild Palms (1993).

She took on controversial roles, such as Margaret Sanger in the TV movie Choices of the Heart (1995), Mistress Lisa in the 1994 feature film Exit to Eden (adaptated from the Anne Rice book), and an Emmy nominated role as a gun-owning mother in an episode of the TV series Family Law (1999) (which was not rerun, due to sponsorship withdrawal).

Delany provided voice-over work as Lois Lane in the Warner Bros. animated production of Superman, starting in the mid 1990s, and continuing through 2005. She was also mentioned by name in the theme song of Animaniacs, another Warner Bros. production.

During the latter part of the 1990s and early 2000s, she focused on roles in TV series, such as the short-lived Pasadena (2001) and Presidio Med (2002); TV movies like True Women (1997), Resurrection (1999), A Time to Remember (2003) and Baby for Sale (2004); and feature films by indie film producers, such as The Outfitters (1999), Mother Ghost (2002), and Spin (2003).

During this period, she found time to get back to the stage, on and off Broadway, in Translations (1995 - Broadway), Dinner With Friends (2000 - New York City, Los Angeles, Boston), and Much Ado About Nothing (2003 - San Diego).

From 2004 to 2006, Delany played many guest roles on TV shows such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Boston Legal, Kojak, Related, The L Word, and Battlestar Galactica. Dana also starred in the short-lived TV series Kidnapped (2006).

[edit] Personal and public life

Since the mid-1990s, Delany has served on the board of the Scleroderma Research Foundation, and with her friend Sharon Monsky, she helped campaign for support in finding a cure for scleroderma. Working with director Bob Saget, Dana starred in the TV movie For Hope (1996), based on Saget's sister Gay, who had died as a result of the disease.

Since the mid-1990s, she has had a notable World Wide Web presence. She has participated in several online chat events promoting various projects. Her Official Web Site, online since 1996, includes a guestbook in which she participates.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2006	Kidnapped	Ellie Cain
2006	The Woman with the Hungry Eyes	Theda Bara (voice)
2006	Superman: Brainiac Attacks	Lois Lane
2006	Battlestar Galactica	Sesha Abinell
2004	Spin	Margaret Swift-Bejarano
2004	Justice League Unlimited: For the Man Who Has Everything	Loana (voice)
2004	Baby for Sale	Natalie Johnson
2003	Justice League: A Better World, Part 1	Lois Lane (voice)
2003	Justice League: Only a Dream, Part 2	Lois Lane (voice)
2003	Justice League: Hereafter, Part 1	Lois Lane (voice)
2003	Intimate Portrait: Dana Delany	Herself
2002	Conviction	Martha
2001	Final Jeopardy	Alexandra Cooper
2000	The Right Temptation	Anthea Farrow-Smith
1999	Sirens	Sally Rawlings
1999	Outfitters	Cat Bonfaim
1998	The Patron Saint of Liars	Rose Cleardon Abbott
1998	Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples	Johtje Vos
1998	The Curve	Dr. Ashley
1998	Wide Awake	Mrs. Beal
1997	True Women	Sarah Ashby McClure
1996	For Hope	Hope Altman
1996	The Adventures of Mowgli	Bagheera (voice) [English version]
1996	Fly Away Home	Susan Barnes
1996	Superman: The Animated Series	Lois Lane
1995	Live Nude Girls	Jill
1995	Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story	Margaret Sanger
1994	Exit to Eden	Lisa Emerson
1994	The Enemy Within	Betsy Corcoran
1993	Batman: Mask of the Phantasm	Andrea Beaumont
1993	Tombstone	Josephine Marcus
1993	Donato and Daughter	Lieutenant Dena Donato
1993	Wild Palms	Grace Wyckoff
1992	Housesitter	Becky Metcalf
1992	Light Sleeper	Marianne
1990	A Promise to Keep	Jane Goodrich
1988	Moon over Parador	Jenny
1988	Masquerade	Anne Briscoe
1988	Patty Hearst	Gelina
1986	Where the River Runs Black	Sister Ana
1986	A Winner Never Quits	Nora
1984	Threesome	Laura Shaper
1984	Almost You	Susan McCall
1981	The Fan	Saleswoman

[edit] External links

• Dana Delany at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Dana Delany web site