Sharon Marguerite Gless (born May 31, 1943) is an American actress known for her television roles. She portrayed Maggie Philbin on Switch (1975–78), Sgt. Christine Cagney in the police procedural drama series Cagney & Lacey (1982–88), and played the title role in The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (1990–92). She was Debbie Novotny in the Showtime cable television series Queer as Folk (2000–2005) and Madeline Westen on Burn Notice (2007–2013).
A 10-time Emmy Award nominee[1] and seven-time Golden Globe Award nominee, she won a Golden Globe in 1986[2] and Emmys in 1986 and 1987 for Cagney & Lacey,[1] and a second Golden Globe in 1991 for The Trials of Rosie O'Neill.[2] She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995.[3]
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Sharon Marguerite Gless (born May 31, 1943) is an American actress known for her television roles. She portrayed Maggie Philbin on Switch (1975–78), Sgt...
and produced The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, which starred his third wife SharonGless and ran for two seasons in the early 1990s. In 1985, he set up The Rosenzweig...
2013. The show stars Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, SharonGless, and (beginning in season four) Coby Bell. The premise of the show focuses...
thriller film starring Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook,1 Yaphet Kotto, SharonGless, James B. Sikking, and Joe Regalbuto. The film was written by Roderick...
United Kingdom, the novel was also adapted into a play in 1992, starring SharonGless as Annie Wilkes, and later into a 2005 play, starring Susan Penhaligon...
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in an early starring role, plays the title part; Frank Converse and SharonGless are cast as Kathy's parents. Kathy, a high school track and field athlete...
1985, and 1988, and was a nominee in 1986 and 1987. Between co-star SharonGless and her, they won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress...
directed by Robert Fuest with a screenplay by David Wiltse and starring SharonGless, Julie Kavner, Don Johnson, Arthur Hill, and Audra Lindley. It is the...
Angeles. Juanita Gless, her great-grandmother, was an early settler of California who came from the Basque region of France. Actress SharonGless is Baur's first...
spent three seasons (1985–88) as David Keeler, love interest to Cagney (SharonGless), on Cagney & Lacey (CBS). During his run on the show, he moved behind...
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for the short (six episodes) first season, before she was replaced by SharonGless. Entertainment columnist Dick Kleiner wrote in August 1982 about Foster's...
best actress in TV comedy, but did not win) and then later with actress SharonGless (coincidentally, one of the House Calls co-stars was Roger Bowen who...
Nix and starring Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, and SharonGless, premiered July 10, 2008. The season was split into two parts, with episodes...
regular roles as Doreen Morrison in The Trials of Rosie O'Neill starring SharonGless, and as Mayor Anita Massengil on the Fox comedy series Son of the Beach...
for Best Performance in a Studio Production (2010). She worked with SharonGless on A Round Heeled Woman in the West End (2012) and has twice played lead...
friends with the real-life baseball player. Madeline Westen played by SharonGless is Michael Westen's mother. It is unclear how much Madeline knows about...
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