1. Sharon Marguerite Gless was born on May 31,1943 and is an American actress known for her television roles.
18 Facts About Sharon Gless
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Sharon Gless was Debbie Novotny in the Showtime cable television series Queer as Folk and Madeline Westen on Burn Notice.
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Sharon Gless received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995.
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Sharon Gless has two brothers, Michael McCarthy Gless and Aric Dennis Gless.
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Sharon Gless's parents divorced when she was in her teens.
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In 1998, Sharon Gless narrated the documentary Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.
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In 2006, Sharon Gless starred in the BBC television series The State Within.
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In 2009, Sharon Gless starred in her first leading role as a lesbian character in the independent film Hannah Free, described as a film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.
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In 2017, Sharon Gless was announced as appearing in one episode of the BBC's Casualty, the world's longest-running medical drama, as surgeon Zsa Zsa Harper-Jenkinson.
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Sharon Gless appears in the 13th episode of the serial's 32nd series.
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Sharon Gless was invited to appear in the show by one of the producers, and expressed interest in reprising the role.
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Sharon Gless' appearance marked the first time the show has flown an American to the UK to film a role.
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Sharon Gless reprised the role on the October 13,2018 episode.
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Sharon Gless served on the advisory board of the Los Angeles Student Film Institute.
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Sharon Gless made her stage debut in Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine at Stage West in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Sharon Gless had two appearances in London's West End, first in 1993 with Bill Paterson, when she created the role of Annie Wilkes in the stage version of Stephen King's Misery at the Criterion Theatre, and then in 1996, where she appeared opposite Tom Conti in Neil Simon's Chapter Two, at the Gielgud Theatre.
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Sharon Gless starred at Chicago playhouse The Victory Gardens Theater in Claudia Allen's Cahoots, as well as several stints, including an evening at Madison Square Garden with the National Company of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues.
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Sharon Gless starred in a new production in Miami, December 2010 - February 2011, directed by Jane Prowse.