DANA DELANY, GREAT TV ROLES & STRONG ACTIVISM

Today, The Grandma has been watching some TV series like China Beach and Desperate Housewives, both of them interpreted by Dana Delany, the American actress and activist who was born on a day like today in 1956.

Dana Welles Delany (born March 13, 1956) is an American actress.

After appearing in small roles early in her career, Delany received her breakthrough role as Colleen McMurphy on the ABC television drama China Beach (1988-1991), for which she twice received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1989 and 1992.

She received further recognition for her appearances in the films Light Sleeper (1992), Tombstone (1993), Exit to Eden (1994), The Margaret Sanger Story (1995), Fly Away Home (1996), True Women (1997), and Wide Awake (1998).

Delany is also a known voice actress, having voiced characters in the DC Animated Universe, notably as Andrea Beaumont in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and Lois Lane in Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, subsequently reprising the latter role in several projects unrelated to the DCAU.

In the 2000s, Delany appeared in main roles on several short-lived television series, including Pasadena (2001), Presidio Med (2002-2003), and Kidnapped (2006-2007).

From 2007 to 2010, she starred as Katherine Mayfair on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives, for which she received a Prism Award in 2009. Delany then starred as Megan Hunt on the ABC medical drama Body of Proof (2011-2013), and as Crystal Harris on the Amazon drama series Hand of God (2014-2017).

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Delany was born in New York City, the daughter of Mary and Jack Delany. She has a sister, Corey, and a brother, Sean. She is of Irish and English descent and was raised Roman Catholic. She has stated that, even as a little girl, she always wanted to go into acting.

The reason a person first gets into acting is because you want attention from your parents as a little girl, she told a reporter. In her childhood, she went with her family to many Broadway shows and was fascinated by films.

Delany was a member of the Hollywood Women's Political Committee. 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.

Delany is a board member of the arts advocacy organization Creative Coalition. In addition, she has supported Planned Parenthood.

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Television is more of a business.
You can't take as many risks,
because there's so many channels now,
and the advertising's dropping.

Dana Delany