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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. This resulted in her being one of the few to be mentioned by name in the Animaniacs theme song.
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).
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.
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
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
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