Dana Welles Delany was born on March 13,1956 and is an American actress.
53 Facts About Dana Delany
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Dana Delany received further recognition for her appearances in the films Light Sleeper, Tombstone, Exit to Eden, The Margaret Sanger Story, Fly Away Home, True Women, and Wide Awake.
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Dana Delany is 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.
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Dana Delany then starred as Megan Hunt on the ABC medical drama Body of Proof, and as Crystal Harris on the Amazon Prime Video drama series Hand of God.
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Dana Delany was born in New York City, the daughter of Mary and Jack Dana Delany.
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Dana Delany has a sister, Corey, and a brother, Sean.
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Dana Delany is of Irish and English descent and was raised Roman Catholic.
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Dana Delany has stated that, even as a little girl, she always wanted to go into acting.
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Dana Delany played the lead role of Nellie Forbush in the school's spring musical production of South Pacific opposite Peter Kapetan as Emile.
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Dana Delany majored in theater at Wesleyan University, where she appeared in one of the first performances of Maria Irene Fornes feminist play Fefu and Her Friends.
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Dana Delany worked summer stock productions during vacations before graduating in 1978.
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Dana Delany finally won the role after she showed up to her next audition with her "long tresses cut into a bob" after the producers lost their first choice.
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In 1991, Dana Delany was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
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Dana Delany won leading roles in a string of feature films such as the TV movie A Promise to Keep, Light Sleeper, Housesitter and Fly Away Home as well as appearing in the TV mini-series Wild Palms.
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In 1993, Dana Delany was paired with Charles Bronson to lead in the CBS television film Donato and Daughter, directed by Rod Holcomb.
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Dana Delany starred as Margaret Sanger in the TV movie Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story, about the controversial nurse who crusaded for women's reproductive rights in the early 1900s.
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In 1995, Dana Delany appeared in the Broadway show Translations and in May 1997, she returned to her alma mater Phillips Academy to work with theater students as an artist-in-residence.
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Dana Delany appeared in TV movies such as True Women and Resurrection.
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Dana Delany declined the role partly because of the negative audience reaction she received with a similar film, Exit to Eden, a few years prior.
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Dana Delany played a gun-toting mother in an episode of the TV series Family Law for which she earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, but the series was not rerun due to sponsorship withdrawal.
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Dana Delany portrayed Andrea Beaumont in the 1993 animated feature film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm based on the popular TV show Batman: The Animated Series.
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Dana Delany was mentioned by name in one variation of the theme song of Animaniacs, another Warner Bros.
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Dana Delany reprised her role as Lois Lane for the character's guest appearances in Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, and The Batman.
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Dana Delany returned to the DC Universe in an episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold as Vilsi, an alternate universe variation of Lois Lane.
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Dana Delany reprised her role in the 2013 animated movie, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.
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Dana Delany continued to find work in a variety of projects, doing pilots, TV series, made-for-TV movies, and feature films.
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Dana Delany appeared in the short-lived Pasadena, a Fox production which was described as a "twisted rich-family saga" with a "great cast".
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Dana Delany appeared in feature films by indie film producers, such as The Outfitters, Mother Ghost, and Spin.
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Dana Delany played Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing ; one critic described the "verbal sparring" between Delany and actor Billy Campbell as a "joy".
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Dana Delany starred in the short-lived TV series Kidnapped.
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Delany appeared as herself in the TV documentary Vietnam Nurses with Dana Delany which explored their lives and treatment after returning to the United States.
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Dana Delany has become "something of a heroine to the nurses who served in Vietnam", according to Los Angeles Times writer Susan King, who noted that the actress worked on a nationwide nurse recruitment program in 1990 called the McMurphy project.
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In 2007, Dana Delany appeared in the films A Beautiful Life, Camp Hope, and Multiple Sarcasms.
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Dana Delany initially declined the offer to play one of the four Desperate Housewives principal characters, Bree Van De Kamp, saying it was too similar to her role on Pasadena.
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Not many actors can deftly deliver both comedy and drama, but Dana Delany makes it look easy.
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In March 2010, Dana Delany appeared as FBI agent Jordan Shaw in a two-part story on the TV series Castle, which stars Nathan Fillion, who played her character's second husband on Desperate Housewives.
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Dana Delany left Desperate Housewives to star in the new ABC series Body of Proof originally slated to begin airing in late 2010.
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Dana Delany voiced a character Margaret Rosenblatt in the film Firebreather in 2010.
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In 2011, in Body of Proof, Dana Delany played a brilliant neurosurgeon turned medical examiner after a car accident causes her to lose dexterity in her hands.
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Two weeks before filming the pilot episode, Dana Delany's car was hit by a bus in Santa Monica; two fingers of her hand were broken and her car was totaled.
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In May 2011, Dana Delany was the host of the fourth annual Television Academy Honors.
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Dana Delany appeared in the crime drama Freelancers with director Jessy Terrero.
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In December 2016, Dana Delany was the primetime guest host on Turner Classic Movies.
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Dana Delany appeared in dozens of wraparounds on the channel, filling in for Robert Osborne.
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Dana Delany was cast for CBS's Drama The Code in August 2018.
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Dana Delany was a member of the Hollywood Women's Political Committee.
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Since the mid-1990s, Dana 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.
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Dana Delany appeared as a contestant on Celebrity Jeopardy in 2001,2006 and 2009 to raise money for scleroderma research.
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Dana Delany is a board member of the arts advocacy organization Creative Coalition.
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Dana Delany appeared in June 2009 in an onstage meeting in New York alongside White House social secretary Desiree Rogers to discuss ways to promote American cinematic creativity.
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Dana Delany attended the organization's 90th birthday celebration in New York City in 2006.
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Dana Delany is a Democrat who campaigned for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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Dana Delany told Prevention in 2010 that she prefers eating healthily, including vegetables, tofu, fish, gluten-free pasta, and bread.