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This attractive and engaging talent became a TV star as the Vietnam nurse Colleen McMurphy in the acclaimed... (Learn more)

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Notes on Dana Delany

"Ambiguity in the script is one thing. Playing it [on stage] is another. One of the things I love about film is the ambiguity. You can let a million thoughts cross your face, and they'll all be right. Any one of them can have meaning. Onstage, that can't happen. You have to project or it doesn't work." --Dana Delany in New York Newsday, March 16, 1995.

"I'm not a big planner. I don't have goals, and I usually like to be surprised by what happens. My credo is by [the writer] Alice Walker: 'Expect nothing; live frugally on surprise.' It gives you a sense of freedom. I have a real belief that life takes care of itself. And it's usually much better than what I imagine." --Delany quoted in Parade Magagazine, August 14, 1994.

Delany has been a supporter of the Schleroderma Research Foundation since the early 1990s.

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Quick Facts

Also known as

AKA : Dana Welles Delany

Born

March, 13 1956 in New York City, New York, USA

Education

  • Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut:
  • Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, Massachusetts: one of the first girls to graduate from the former all-boys school

Professions

actor