| Dana Delany  AKA Dana Welles Delany
Born: 13-Mar-1956
Birthplace: Manhattan, NY
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: China Beach, Exit to Eden Delany has said she wanted to act since she was three years old, mostly to get attention from her parents. She started in soap operas, Love of Life in the late 1970s and As the World Turns in the early '80s. She was featured in a quickly-canceled mid-80s sit-com, Sweet Surrender, but she was still relatively unknown in 1988 when chosen over Helen Hunt for the role of Nurse McMurphy on the Vietnam war drama China Beach. The show was well-written and acted, critically acclaimed, and never jumped the shark. Delany won two Emmys, and deserved them.
After China Beach ended in 1991, Delany faded into odd or small roles, mostly on television and in independent films. She was featured with Dan Aykroyd in the ludicrous S&M comedy East to Eden, and starred in an unnecessary TV remake of an Ellen Burstyn movie, Resurrection. She played Margaret Sanger in a Lifetime biopic, Choices of the Heart, and she has been the cartoon and video game voice of Superman's girlfriend Lois Lane since 1996. She also voiced Batman/Bruce Wayne's girlfriend in the 1993 cartoon Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.
Her grandfather, John J. Delany, invented the Delany valve, a component still used in today's flush toilets. The family name lives on at Coyne & Delany of Charlottesville, VA, where they manufacture bathtubs, flush tanks, fittings and ballcocks.
Father: (d. 1981)
Boyfriend: Treat Williams (1984)
Boyfriend: John Sacret Young
Boyfriend: Darius Anderson (1993)
Boyfriend: Henry Czerny
Boyfriend: (Los Angeles wine expert, 2000)
High School: Phillips Academy Andover (1974)
University: BA Drama, Wesleyan University (1978)
Democracy for America
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
John Kerry for President
NARAL
PAC For a Change
Planned Parenthood
Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, China Beach (1989)
Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, China Beach (1992)
Irish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Yoga
TELEVISION
Desperate Housewives Katherine Mayfair (2007-)
Kidnapped Ellie Cain (2006-07)
Justice League Lois Lane (2003-05)
Presidio Med Dr. Rae Brennan (2002-03)
Pasadena Catherine McAllister (2001-05)
China Beach Nurse Colleen McMurphy (1988-91)
As the World Turns Hayley Wilson Hollister (1981)
Love of Life Amy Russell (1979-80)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Spin (8-Nov-2003)
The Right Temptation (2000)
Sirens (26-Sep-1999)
The Batman/Superman Movie (18-Aug-1998) [VOICE]
Wide Awake (20-Mar-1998)
The Curve (24-Jan-1998)
True Women (18-May-1997)
Fly Away Home (5-Sep-1996)
Live Nude Girls (08-Dec-1995)
Exit to Eden (14-Oct-1994)
The Enemy Within (22-Feb-1994)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (25-Dec-1993) [VOICE]
Tombstone (25-Dec-1993)
Donato and Daughter (21-Sep-1993)
Light Sleeper (21-Aug-1992)
HouseSitter (12-Jun-1992)
Patty Hearst (23-Sep-1988)
Moon Over Parador (9-Sep-1988)
Masquerade (11-Mar-1988)
Where the River Runs Black (11-Sep-1986)
A Winner Never Quits (14-Apr-1986)
The Fan (15-May-1981)
Official Website:
http://www.danadelany.com/
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