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Sharon Gless Bio
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Sharon Gless Biography With a career that spans more than three decades and an impressive resume, Sharon Gless is still probably best remembered as the blonde half of the New York City female crime fighting due ‘Cagney and Lacey’ which had her paired up with Tyne Daly as a loud mouthed, hard hitting NYC cop. Sharon Gless was born on May 31st 1943 in Los Angeles, California and from an early age she realized that show business was in her blood with her grandfather, Neil S. McCarthy, having been an entertainment lawyer during Hollywood’s Golden Age, when his clients included Howard Hughes, Louis B Mayer and Cecil B. DeMille. Sharon’s career began in the administration side of the business when she worked in the offices of
advertising agencies Grey Advertising and Young & Rubicam and then for the independent movie production companies Sassafras Films and General Film Corporation. Losing interest in the secretarial career she was carving out for herself she began acting classes and eventually in 1974 she signed a ten year contract with Universal Studios giving her the distinction of being the last-ever "contract player" at Universal Studios. Signing with Universal was a springboard to Sharon’s career when she appeared in numerous Universal television series, soap operas and TV movies, and co-starred with Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner in the studio's series ‘Switch’ which ran from 1975 through 1978. Gless’s next series was the 1981 weekly drama ‘House Calls’ in which she replaced departing regular Lynn Redgrave. Replacing seemed to become her angle while at Universal, as it was ‘replacement’ that saw her appearing in the assignment that solidified her as a bankable name when in 1982, she replaced Meg Foster as NYPD officer, Chris Cagney on the detective series ‘Cagney and Lacey.’ She starred with Tyne Daly in the cop drama from 1982 until 1988 and the series saw Sharon winning both a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for her role.
With the obvious popularity and cult following of the series Sharon and Tyne reprised the characters in a well-received 1995 TV movie and it was in that same year that Gless was honoured with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7065 Hollywood Blvd. It was while working on the series ‘Cagney and Lacey’ that Sharon met and married her husband, executive producer, Barney Rosenzweig and it was Barney who co-created the 1992 drama series ‘The Trials of Rosie O’Neil’ specifically for Sharon in which she played the title role of public defender which was a somewhat tongue in cheek, comedic portrayal of court life. Sharon has twice performed on the London stage, first in 1992 in an adaptation of Stephen King's "Misery" when she played the role originally taken on by Kathy Bates in the movie with James Caan, and later in 1999 opposite Tom Conti in Neil Simon's "Chapter Two”. Gless’s other awards for TV and movies include, The Viewers for Quality TV Best Actress Award, the Milestone Award which she won in 1988, the SI Award, the Gideon Media Award and Distinguished Artist Award and the Hollywood Women in Radio and TV Genii Award. 2003 had Sharon teaming up once again with her old partner Tyne in an episode of ‘Judging Amy’ with Amy Brenneman as the Judge, where she made a guest appearance as Dr. Sally Godwin in just one episode. Gless and Tyne Daly were eventually asked to leave CBS because of their age, along with Angela Lansbury so in 2006, Gless headed of to England where she starred in the UK BBC television series ‘The State Within’. The following year, she co-starred in the USA Network cable-television series ‘Burn Notice’ with Jeffrey Donovan and Gabrielle Anwar. ABB |
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Sharon Gless - Starred in TV's 'Cagney and Lacey' with Tyne Daly .
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Sharon Gless - Her grandfather was Howard Hughes ' lawyer. |
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Sharon Gless - Performed on the stage in an adaptation of Stephen King 's 'Misery.' |
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