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Dana Delany is perhaps best known for her role as Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on ABC-TVs critically-acclaimed series China Beach. The role earned her three Emmy nominations and two Emmy Awards as Best Actress.

Delany was most recently seen on television starring in Lifetime's Choices of the Heart. The Margaret Sanger Story, which aired in March, 1995 and in the feature film Live Nude Girls.

Raised in Stamford, Connecticut, Delany knew early in life that she wanted to be an actress. Following graduation from Wesleyan University, she moved to New York and honed her skills working in daytime television and theater.

Delany starred in the Broadway show A Life and received critical acclaim in a number of off-Broadway productions. Her starring role in Nicholas Kazan's controversial Bloodmoon in New York led her to Los Angeles for the drama's west coast production. After the play's run, Delany stayed in Los Angeles and soon began appearing in television shows including Moonlighting and Magnum, P.I. Other small screen credits include Donato and Daughter for CBS-TV, in which she starred opposite Charles Bronson.

Delany's film credits include Exit to Eden, Tombstone, Housesitter, Light Sleeper, Moon Over Parador, Masquerade, Patty Hearst, Where the River Runs Black and Almost You.

She will next be seen in Miramax's forthcoming feature release, Wide Awake. Delany also stars as a woman suffering from the disease Schleroderma in the upcoming ABC telefilm For Hope, which airs in November.

Bio courtesy Sony Pictures Entertainment (15-May-2002)

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