Sharon Gless
Sharon Gless
Sharon Marguerite Glessis an American character actress of stage, film and television, who is best known for her roles as Maggie Philbin on Switch, as Sgt. Christine Cagney in the police procedural drama series Cagney & Lacey, as Debbie Novotny in the Showtime cable television series Queer as Folk, and as Madeline Westen on Burn Notice. Gless has won two Emmy Awards and has received 10 Emmy nominations. She has won two Golden Globe Awardsand has received seven Golden Globe...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth31 May 1943
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
But Angela had at least 30% more viewers on the same night at the same time. I mean, she wiped everybody out. But the sponsors don't care when she had the most people. They only care about if there was only a handful of young viewers on the other one.
I dont believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.
Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now.
In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.
You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.
Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?
Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.
Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.
They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.
When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive."
In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.
I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition,
There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies,
I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.