Known in the main for her Deuce-period Emmy Award winning performance as Colleen McMurphy on the ABC television show China Beach (1988-1991), Dana Delany has been an actress in films, television, & stage since a late 1970s.

Fallowing growing higher within Connecticut, Dana attended Phillips Academy in Andover, then Wesleyan University.

Her early career involved the TV role in Love of Life (1979), performing on Broadway in A Life (1980), so back to TV in As the World Turns (1981). A west coast production of the controversial play Bloodmoon (1983-1984) took Dana to Hollywood. A next couple of years consisted of little area inside various films & TV guest spots, including an appearance in Moonlighting (TV series) (1985) and Trine notable episodes in Magnum P.I. (1986).

A important break for Dana occurred once she wwhen cast as Colleen McMurphy on China Beach, airing from 1988 to 1991, bringing unbearable media attention to the actress. This role non simply garnered Ii Emmy awards, but Ii more Emmy nominations, & Deuce Golden Globe nominations.

Leveraging this newfound fame, Dana appeared within feature like Weak Sleeper (1992), Housesitter (1992), & Tombstone (1993), and TV picture like Promise to Keep (1991), & Wild Palms (1993).

Dana took in controversial roles like Margaret Sanger in the TV movie Choices of the Heart (1995), Mistress Lisa in the 1994 feature film adaptation of the Anne Rice book Exit to Eden, and an Emmy nominated role as a gun-with mother around an episode of the TV series Personal Law (1999) (which was non run, due to sponsorship withdrawal).

Dana provided voice-over work as Lois Lane in the Warner Bros. animated productions of Superman, starting in the mid 1990s, & continuing across 2005. This resulted within her existence one of a couple to become mentioned by title in the Animaniacs theme song.

A latter a portion of the Nineties & early 2000s showed Dana's preference for projects that challenged her. So, she focused within roles in TV series, like a shortlived Pasadena (2001) & Presidio Med (2002); TV movies such as True Women (1997), Resurrection (1999), The Instance to Remember (2003) & Little one purchasable (2004); & feature by indie film producers, such as A Outfitters (1999), & Spin (2003).

Dana likewise noticed instance for back to the stage, off and on Broadway, in Translations (1995 - Broadway), Dinner By using Friends (2000 - New York City, Los Angeles, Boston), and Much Ado About Nothing (2003 - San Diego).

She continues to exist as featured around guest roles in TV shows like Law & Order:SVU and Boston Legal (both in 2004), and Kojak (2005).

Inside February 2006, Delany will pop up around an episode of Battlestar Galactica which she recently filmed.

Personal and public life

Since a mid-'90s, Dana has served on the board of the [http://www.srfcure.org/srf/index.htm Scleroderma Research Foundation], & by owning her friend Sharon Monsky, she helped campaign for support around locating the remedy for scleroderma. Working sustaining director Bob Saget, Dana starred in the TV movie For Hope (1996), based on Saget's sister Gay, world health organization got died following of the disease.

The like unique facet to Dana's career is her presence on the internet. Since a mid-1990s, she has participated within many online chat events promoting various projects. However her independent net venue has been her [http://www.danadelany.com/ Official Web Site], low since 1996, which includes the guestbook that she occasionally posts to, answering questions from either her fans, & updating the babies in her life & act.