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Dana Delany on ABC's "Desperate Housewives" |
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Dana Delany made her mark as Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on ABC's critically acclaimed "China Beach," for which she received four Emmy nominations and two Emmy Awards for Best Actress.
A Stamford, Connecticut native, Dana Delany graduated from Wesleyan University, then went to New York, where she honed her skills in daytime television drama and theatre. Dana Delany starred in the Broadway show "A Life" and received critical acclaim in a number of off-Broadway productions. Dana Delany's starring role in Nicholas Kazan's "Bloodmoon" in New York led to her arrival in Los Angeles for the west coast production of the controversial drama. Opting to stay in LA after the run of the play, Dana Delany was soon cast in popular television shows, including "Moonlighting" and "Magnum, P.I.," as well as in the movies "Tombstone," "HouseSitter," "Live Nude Girls," "Exit to Eden," "Light Sleeper," "Moon Over Parador," 'Masquerade," "Patty Hearst," "Where the River Runs Black" and "Almost You."
Other television credits for Dana Delany include the CBS miniseries "Shake, Rattle & Roll," "True Women," the telefilms "Resurrection" (ABC) and "The Patron Saint of Liars" (CBS), both directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the critically acclaimed ABC telepic "For Hope," in which she played a woman suffering from scleroderma. Dana Delany also starred in Lifetime's "Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story," Showtime's "Sirens," "Rescuers: Stories of Courage" and in "The Right Temptation" for HBO. Dana Delany is the voice of Lois Lane on "The New Batman - Superman Adventures" on Kids WB! In 2000 Dana Delany completed a tour-de-force performance in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Dinner with Friends," alternating roles in New York, Los Angeles and Boston. Dana Delany also produced and starred in the ABC telefilm "Double Jeopardy," the first in a series of films based on New York sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein's novels.
Dana Delany shone in the role of Catherine, the matriarch in waiting to the wealthy Greeley family on "Pasadena," an hour-long drama for Columbia TriStar Television which aired on Fox. Dana Delany followed that up with the griping "Presidio Med" on CBS, a medical drama revolving around a group of female doctors in San Francisco. Dana Delany also co-starred in the Showtime drama "Conviction" with Omar Epps.
In 2003 Dana Delany joined Doris Roberts in the Alzheimer themed drama, "A Time to Remember," for The Hallmark Channel, and appeared in the big screen in the James Redford independent film, "Spin." A year later Dana Delany treaded the boards in "Much Ado About Nothing" at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre opposite Billy Campbell, and captivated audiences in the Lifetime drama "Baby for Sale." Dana Delany has also guest starred in NBC's "Law & Order: SVU," ABC's "Boston Legal," USA's "Kojak," Showtime's "The L Word" and WB's "Related."
Most recently Dana Delany starred in NBC's "Kidnapped" with Timothy Hutton. Dana Delany's latest project, "Multiple Sarcasm," co-starring Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino and Stockard Channing, is currently in production.
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