Dana Delany

Dana Welles Delany (born March 13, 1956) is an American actress. After appearing in small roles early in her career, Delany received her breakthrough role as Colleen McMurphy on the ABC television drama China Beach (1988–1991), for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1989 and 1992.[1][2] She received further recognition for her appearances in the films Light Sleeper (1992), Tombstone (1993), Exit to Eden (1994), The Margaret Sanger Story (1995), Fly Away Home (1996), True Women (1997), and Wide Awake (1998). Delany also provided the voice of Lois Lane in Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.

Dana Delany
Delany at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards in 2009
Born
Dana Welles Delany

(1956-03-13) March 13, 1956 (age 68)
Alma materWesleyan University
OccupationActress
Years active1974–present
Known forChina Beach
Desperate Housewives
Body of Proof

In the 2000s, Delany appeared in main roles on several short-lived television series, including Pasadena (2001), Presidio Med (2002–2003), and Kidnapped (2006–2007). From 2007 to 2010, she starred as Katherine Mayfair on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives, for which she received a Prism Award in 2009.[3] Delany then starred as Megan Hunt on the ABC medical drama Body of Proof (2011–2013), and as Crystal Harris on the Amazon Prime Video drama series Hand of God (2014–2017).[4]

Early life

Delany was born in New York City, the daughter of interior designer Mary Burnett Welles and John Joseph Delany, CEO of Coyne & Delany Co., a major flushometers and flush valves manufacturer in the USA.[5] She has a sister, Corey, and a brother, Sean.[6][7][8] She was raised Roman Catholic.[9][10] She has stated that, even as a little girl, she always wanted to go into acting.[citation needed] "The reason a person first gets into acting is because you want attention from your parents as a little girl," she told a reporter.[11] In her childhood, she went with her family to many Broadway shows and was fascinated by films.[11]

After growing up in Stamford, Connecticut, she attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, for her senior year and was a member of the school's first co-educational class.[12] Then-senior Delany wrote an op-ed in 1974[13] about her experience of being a one-year student during the school's first year of co-education. "Andover was the best time of my life," she recalled.[11] She played the lead role of Nellie Forbush in the school's spring musical production of South Pacific opposite Peter Kapetan as Emile.[14] She commented: "It was just a little awkward to be Nellie at first because she hesitates to marry Emile since he had once lived with a Polynesian woman – I don't agree with her reasoning so that made things a bit hard at the beginning."[15] She appeared in a student video directed by classmate Jonathan Meath in a film class taught by Steve Marx. She graduated in 1974 with the academic honor of nomination to the school chapter of the Cum Laude Society, awarded that year to 80 out of 378 graduating seniors.[16]

She majored in theater at Wesleyan University, where (among other productions) she appeared in one of the first performances of María Irene Fornés feminist play Fefu and Her Friends. Delany also worked summer stock productions during vacations before graduating in 1978.[11][17][18] Later, in an interview, she reported that she sometimes had eating disorders during this time of her life.[19] She said: "I binged... I starved ... I was one step from anorexia – a piece of toast and an apple would be all I would eat in a day."[19]

Career

1980s: Stage, television, China Beach

After college, she found acting work in New York City in daytime soap operas including Love of Life and As the World Turns, and supported herself by acting in commercials such as for Wisk laundry detergent. She starred in the Broadway show A Life and won critical acclaim in 1983 in Nicholas Kazan's off-Broadway Blood Moon, where The New York Times cited her "skillful verisimilitude" handling a difficult part requiring two roles "and she does them both with authority."[20] Delany moved to Hollywood and during the next few years found work guest starring in TV shows like Moonlighting and Magnum, P.I. and Thirtysomething.

Delany's first audition for the lead role of nurse Colleen McMurphy was unsuccessful. "They thought I wasn't pretty enough", she said in an interview. She finally won the role after she showed up to her next audition with her "long tresses cut into a bob" after the producers lost their first choice (Delany had cut her hair at the request of director Paul Schrader who had cast her in the film Patty Hearst).[21] China Beach aired weekly from 1988 to 1991 and brought intense media attention to the actress.[22] This role not only garnered two Primetime Emmy Awards,[23] but two additional Primetime Emmy Award nominations[24] and two Golden Globe Award nominations.[25][26] The show ended after four seasons in 1991.[22]

1990s: Movies, television, voice

Delany at 44th Primetime Emmy Awards, holding the award she won in 1992.

In 1991, Delany was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.[27] In the years following China Beach, Delany worked steadily in television, movies and theater. In addition, she established herself as a significant voice talent.

Delany won leading roles in a string of feature films such as the TV movie A Promise to Keep, Light Sleeper, Housesitter and Fly Away Home as well as appearing in the TV mini-series Wild Palms. She also took on controversial roles, such as Mistress Lisa in Exit to Eden, where one film critic commented "The script was awful—Dana looked great."[28]

On September 21, 1993, the CBS television film Donato and Daughter, directed by Rod Holcomb, premiered. In it Delany is paired with Charles Bronson to play the leads. Delany plays Bronson's daughter, and are both cops assigned to investigate a serial killer. Delany pointed to several reason to why she wanted to do the project. She said the story was appealing because "it was the relationship between the two that interested me. We see so many movies now about serial killers, it's really being overdone, so I wanted to emphasize the relationship between father and daughter." Also she liked that they were no romantic subplot by saying "why is it that in every movie, there has to be a male female thing going on? Why can't it be about a woman and her family and her work? That was the challenge because you want her to be strong and capable, but you also don't want her to be one-dimensional." Another reason she accepted is because she wanted to work with Charles Bronson.[29] In Kay Gardella's review published in The Gazette she says "Delany and Bronson work well together. Bronson shows a warmer, more caring side than his usual tough-guy image allows. And Delany, as attractive as ever, is crisp and efficient as cop."[30]

On December 25, Tombstone premiered in cinemas.[31] She turned in her best known performance of the decade alongside Kurt Russell's Wyatt Earp, playing his love interest and future bride Josephine Marcus.

Now a box office draw in her own right, the stage was set for the success she would encounter later in her career. Live Nude Girls included frank discussion by women of their sexual fantasies at a bachelorette party using a low-budget improvisational comedy format with strong chemistry between the actors.[32] Reviews were mixed: Los Angeles Times critic Richard Natale liked the film but wrote older male film executives believed it to be "uncommercial"; another critic agreed it was "genuine girl talk" but "didn't have a lot of substance" and viewers "don't get to know the characters in the film".[33][34] She also starred as Margaret Sanger in the TV movie Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story (1995), about the controversial nurse who crusaded for women's reproductive rights in the early 1900s.[35][36]

In 1995, Delany appeared in the Broadway show Translations and in May 1997, she returned to her alma mater Phillips Academy to work with theater students as an artist-in-residence.[14] She appeared in TV movies such as True Women (1997) and Resurrection (1999).[37] In 1998, Delany reportedly turned down the role of Carrie Bradshaw in the hit TV show Sex and the City.[38] She declined the role partly because of the negative audience reaction she received with a similar film, Exit to Eden, a few years prior. Sex and the City became a successful series, and the role of Carrie made Sarah Jessica Parker world-famous. Delany played a gun-toting mother in an episode of the TV series Family Law (1999) for which she earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, but the series was not rerun due to sponsorship withdrawal.[39]

Delany's first voice work was the character Andrea Beaumont in the 1993 animated feature film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm based on the popular TV show Batman: The Animated Series.[40][41] She was also mentioned by name in one variation of the theme song of Animaniacs, another Warner Bros. production.[42] She then voiced Lois Lane in Superman: The Animated Series, reprised her role as Lois Lane for the character's guest appearances in Justice League, Justice League Unlimited. She also voiced the character in The Batman.[citation needed] She returned to the DC Universe in an episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold as Vilsi, an alternate universe variation of Lois Lane. She reprised her role in the 2013 animated movie, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.

2000s: Television, movies, stage, Desperate Housewives

Delany, Teri Hatcher, Brenda Strong, and Andrea Bowen at the 20th GLAAD Media Awards in 2009.

Delany continued to find work in a variety of projects, doing pilots, TV series, made-for-TV movies, and feature films. She appeared in the NBC drama Good Guys/Bad Guys (2000), which Newsweek termed a "Sopranos knock-off".[43] She appeared in the short-lived Pasadena (2001), a Fox production which was described as a "twisted rich-family saga" with a "great cast".[44][45][46] Delany commented in an interview: "You can see Pasadena as a black comedy or see it as really tragic. A lot of soaps on television now don't have that layer of tragedy to them."[47] She was an actor and co-executive producer of the film Final Jeopardy (2001).[48] New York Daily News TV critic David Bianculli gave a positive review to both her performance as an actor—"Delany, as always, does pensive and independent better than most actresses"—and as a producer.[49] She played a doctor in the TV series Presidio Med (2002), described as a "conventional but pleasant drama populated by characters dedicated to medicine who also have messy personal lives."[50][51][52] She appeared in TV movies such as A Time to Remember (2003), and Baby for Sale (2004).[53] She appeared in feature films by indie film producers, such as The Outfitters (1999), Mother Ghost (2002), and Spin (2003).[54][55]

Returning to theater, she played an artsy and incompetent woman who questions the "imposed conventions of society" after discovering her husband's affair in the Pulitzer-prize winning Dinner With Friends (2000, New York City, Los Angeles, Boston); her performance earned positive reviews generally.[56][57] She played Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (2003, San Diego); one critic described the "verbal sparring" between Delany and actor Billy Campbell as a "joy".[58]

From 2004 to 2006, Delany played many guest roles on TV shows, such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Boston Legal, Kojak, Related, The L Word, and Battlestar Galactica. She also starred in the short-lived TV series Kidnapped (2006).[59][60] One critic wrote "Delany is alternately furious and despondent as Ellie, and she and Hutton (Timothy Hutton) can do more without words than other actors can do with pages of dialogue. They're absolutely convincing as rich, complicated Manhattanites and as parents who come face to face with the scary reality that they can't always protect their kids."[61]

Delany appeared as herself in the TV documentary Vietnam Nurses with Dana Delany which explored their lives and treatment after returning to the United States.[62] Delany has become "something of a heroine to the nurses who served in Vietnam", according to Los Angeles Times writer Susan King, who noted that the actress worked on a nationwide nurse recruitment program in 1990 called the McMurphy project.[63]

In 2007, Delany appeared in the films A Beautiful Life, Camp Hope, and Multiple Sarcasms.[64][65][66]

Delany initially declined the offer to play one of the four Desperate Housewives principal characters, Bree Van De Kamp, saying it was too similar to her role on Pasadena.[67] The show became a popular prime-time soap opera with substantial ratings. But in 2007 she was again offered a role by producer Marc Cherry, this time as a supporting housewife, and she joined the cast of the well-established series for the 2007–08 season.[68][69][70] Reaction to the addition of Delany was positive; one critic wrote "...casting Dana Delany as Katherine Mayfair in Season 4 is one of the smartest things Cherry has ever done. Not many actors can deftly deliver both comedy and drama, but Delany makes it look easy."[71] She commented about playing housewife Katherine Mayfair: "The hardest thing for me was figuring out the tone of the piece because it's such a specific tone – so it was more of an acting challenge than anything else."[72] She commented in 2008: "I hope that she doesn't lose her snarkiness, because that's always fun to play."[73] On May 13, 2008, it was announced that Delany would reprise her role on Desperate Housewives for season five, having been promoted to the sixth lead.[74][75][76]

2010s: Television series and movies

In March 2010, Delany appeared as FBI agent Jordan Shaw in a two-part story on the TV series Castle, which stars Nathan Fillion, who played her character's second husband on Desperate Housewives.[77] Delany also voiced a character Margaret Rosenblatt in the film Firebreather in 2010.[78] Delany left Desperate Housewives to star in the new ABC series Body of Proof originally slated to begin airing in late 2010.[79] In the series, Delany played a brilliant neurosurgeon turned medical examiner after a car accident causes her to lose dexterity in her hands.[80][81][82] Delany in real life had an experience similar to her character of Dr. Megan Hunt. Two weeks before filming the pilot episode, Delany's car was hit by a bus in Santa Monica; two fingers of her hand were broken and her car was totaled.[83] Delany describes her character in Body of Proof as being "complicated, smart, and definitely complex."[83]

In May 2011, Delany was the host of the fourth annual Television Academy Honors.[84] In 2011, Delany came ninth in People magazine's annual 100 Most Beautiful list.[85] Delany appeared in the crime drama Freelancers with director Jessy Terrero. The film also stars Robert De Niro, Forest Whitaker, and 50 Cent. It was released to DVD on August 21, 2012, and had a limited release in theatres in September.[86]

In December 2016, Delany was the primetime guest host on Turner Classic Movies. She appeared in dozens of wraparounds on the channel, filling in for Robert Osborne.[citation needed] Delany was cast for CBS's Drama The Code in August 2018.[87]

Personal and public life

Delany was a member of the Hollywood Women's Political Committee.[88] Since the mid-1990s, Delany has served on the board of the Scleroderma Research Foundation, and with her friend Sharon Monsky, she helped campaign for support in finding a cure for scleroderma.[89] Working with director Bob Saget, she starred in the TV movie For Hope (1996) based on Saget's sister Gay, who had died as a result of the disease.[90] She appeared as a contestant on Celebrity Jeopardy in 2001, 2006 and 2009 to raise money for scleroderma research. Scleroderma "robs these women of not only their own lives in many cases, but robs their families which include countless children," she explained in 2002.[91]

Delany is a board member of the arts advocacy organization Creative Coalition.[92][93] She appeared in June 2009 in an onstage meeting in New York alongside White House social secretary Desiree Rogers to discuss ways to promote American cinematic creativity.[94][95] In August 2009, Delany was named co-president of the Creative Coalition, joining Tim Daly in the leadership of the organization.[96] Delany explained her support for the arts in an interview: "I just think it's so important for children and the future of the country and people's general happiness. I'm one of those people who, whenever I feel cut off spiritually or emotionally, I go to a museum or a play or a movie, and I'm just transported."[97] She participated as a celebrity guest in fundraising events that support the rights of same-sex couples to marry.[98]

In addition, she has supported Planned Parenthood. She attended the organization's 90th birthday celebration in New York City in 2006. Delany said: "It's hard to imagine where we'd be in this country had Margaret Sanger not founded that first clinic here in New York, 90 years ago." She attended events sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.[99][100][101] She is a Democrat who campaigned for Hillary Clinton in 2016.[102]

Delany has never been married nor had any children. She commented about her personal life in an interview in 2006: "I turned 50 and I'm ready to get married... I don't know who he is yet but I'm ready... He has to be smart, funny and kind."[103] She added a year later: "Marriage has never been a big deal for me... But I think I'm ready now... I got to have all the fun in the world, to experience a lot of people and figure out what I really like."[104] Delany (in 1988) said she doesn't find being a celebrity to be that appealing: "I'm not a 'personality'. I am never recognized, which I take as a compliment. I have a love-hate thing with publicity."[11]

Delany, in 2003, tried having an injection of botox in her forehead, but the needle hit a nerve and created a bruise that affected the muscle in her right eye, causing it to droop slightly. In 2010, she vowed she would never have plastic surgery.[19]

In 2010, Delany told Prevention that she prefers eating healthily, including vegetables, tofu, fish, gluten-free pasta, and bread.[105]

In April 2011, Delany came 9th in People magazine's annual 100 Most Beautiful list.[85]

In 2019, Delany commented on her approach to acting:

"The whole non sibi thing really informs my work ... Every role that I choose ... has to give back to the audience or say something about the world that has resonance and is reflective of the times we're in ... It also has to be able to make people think, or look at something differently ... Otherwise, why do it? It can't be about self-gratification. It can't be about ego. It can't be about money or being famous. I really believe that if you do the things that have meaning for you, the rest will come."

— Dana Delany (2019)[106]

Filmography

Delany at 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards in 1991
Delany in 2010
Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
1981The FanSaleswoman in record store
1984Almost YouSusan McCall
1986Where the River Runs BlackSister Ana
1988MasqueradeAnne Briscoe
1988Patty HearstGelina
1988Moon over ParadorJenny
1992Light SleeperMarianne
1992HousesitterBecky Metcalf
1993TombstoneJosephine Marcus
1993Batman: Mask of the PhantasmAndrea BeaumontVoice[107]
1994Exit to EdenLisa Emerson
1995Live Nude GirlsJill
1996Adventures of MowgliBagheeraVoice, English dub[107]
1996Fly Away HomeSusan Barnes
1998The Patron Saint of LiarsRose Cleardon Abbott
1998The CurveDr. Ashley
1998Wide AwakeMrs. Beal
1999OutfittersCat Bonfaim
2000The Right TemptationAnthea Farrow-Smith
2002Mother GhostKaren Bennett
2003SpinMargaret Swift-Bejarano
2005Getting to Know YouMarlaShort
2006Superman: Brainiac AttacksLois LaneVoice[107]
2007Route 30Amish Martha
2008A Beautiful LifeAnne
2008Flying LessonsJeanne
2010Multiple SarcasmsAnnie
2010Camp HopePatricia
2010DrunkboatEileen
2012FreelancersLydia Vecchio
2013Justice League: The Flashpoint ParadoxLois LaneVoice[107][108]
2017Literally, Right Before AaronWendy
2020 Wild Mountain ThymePub Band
2024The UnionNicolePost-production
Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1978Ryan's HopeRyan's bar patron
1978–79Love of LifeAmy RussellSeries regular
1981As the World TurnsHayley Wilson HollisterSeries regular, role from January 2, 1981, to December 1, 1981[109]
1984ThreesomeLaura ShaperTV film
1984The StreetsJeannieTV film
1985MoonlightingJillian ArmstrongEpisode: "Knowing Her"
1986A Winner Never QuitsNoraTV film
1986LibertyMoya TrevorTV film
1986–87Magnum, P.I.Cynthia FarrellEpisodes: "L.A." and "Out of Sync"
1987Sweet SurrenderGeorgia HoldenSeries regular, 6 episodes
1988ThirtysomethingEveEpisode: "South by Southeast"
1988–91China BeachColleen McMurphySeries regular, 62 episodes
1990A Promise to KeepJane GoodrichTV film
1992CheersSusan MethenyEpisode: "Love Me, Love My Car"
1993Wild PalmsGrace WyckoffTV miniseries, 5 episodes
1993Donato and DaughterLieutenant Dena DonatoTV film
1994The Enemy WithinBetsy CorcoranTV film
1994TexanAnne WilliamsTV short
1995Fallen AngelsHelen FiskeEpisode: "Good Housekeeping"
1995Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger StoryMargaret SangerTV film
1996For HopeHope AltmanTV film
1996Wing Commander AcademyGwen Archer BowmanVoice, 13 episodes
1996–2000Superman: The Animated SeriesLois LaneVoice, 44 episodes[107]
1997DuckmanDr. Susan FoxVoice, episode: "Role with It"
1997True WomenSarah Ashby McClureTV film
1997Spy GameHoney TrappEpisode: "Dead and Gone, Honey"
1998The Patron Saint of LiarsRose Cleardon AbbottTV film
1998Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two CouplesJohtje VosTV film
1999ResurrectionClare MillerTV film
1999SirensSally RawlingsTV film
1999Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love StoryElaine GunnTV film
2001Family LawMary SullivanEpisode: "Safe At Home"
2001Final JeopardyAlexandra CooperTV film, also co-executive producer
2001–02PasadenaCatherine McAllisterSeries regular, 13 episodes
2002ConvictionMarthaTV film
2002–03Presidio MedDr. Rae BrennanSeries regular, 13 episodes
2003A Time to RememberBritt CalhounTV film
2003–05Justice LeagueLois Lane, LoanaVoice, 7 episodes[107]
2004Baby for SaleNathalie JohnsonTV film
2004Law & Order: Special Victims UnitCarolyn SpencerEpisode: "Obscene"
2004Boston LegalSamantha FlemingEpisode: "Truth Be Told"
2005KojakKate McNeilEpisodes: "All Bets Are Off, Parts I and II"
2005–06RelatedFrancesca SorelliEpisodes: "Francesca" and "The Move"
2006The L WordSenator Barbara GrishamEpisode: "Light My Fire"
2006Battlestar GalacticaSesha AbinellEpisode: "Sacrifice"
2006The Woman with the Hungry EyesTheda BaraVoice
2006KidnappedEllie CainSeries regular, 13 episodes
2007The BatmanLois LaneVoice, episode: "The Batman/Superman Story"[107]
2007–10, 2012Desperate HousewivesKatherine MayfairSeries regular (Seasons 4–6), Special guest star (Season 8)
55 episodes
2010Batman: The Brave and the BoldVilsi VaylarVoice, episode: "The Super-Batman of Planet X!"[107]
2010CastleSpecial Agent Jordan ShawEpisodes: "Tick, Tick, Tick..." and "Boom!"
2010FirebreatherMargaret RosenblattVoice, TV film[78][107]
2011–13Body of ProofDr. Megan HuntSeries regular, 42 episodes
2014–17Hand of GodCrystal HarrisSeries regular, 20 episodes
2015The ComediansJulieRecurring role, 5 episodes[110]
2015No Second ChanceLoraine TansmoreFrench miniseries, 4 episodes[111]
2018BullAssistant US Attorney BannerEpisode: "Bad Medicine"[112]
2019The CodeColonel Glenn Turnbull, USMCJAG Premier April 9, 2019[113]
2021The American GuestEdith RooseveltHBO Max miniseries[114]
2022–presentTulsa KingMargaret DevereauxMain role
2023The Other TwoEmily OverruledEpisode: "Brooke Gets Her Hands Dirty"
2023Mayans MCDeputy Patricia DevlinFinal season, 5 Episodes
Other work
YearTitleRoleNotes
1974South PacificNellie ForbushMusical at Phillips Academy
1980A LifeBroadway play
1983Wisk detergentLady in an elevatorTV commercial (opposite Tom McBride)
1983Blood MoonInnocent pre-med studentOff-broadway production by Nicholas Kazan
1995TranslationsMaireBroadway play (short-lived)
1998Louise Brooks: Looking for LuluDocumentary
2000Dinner With FriendsBethStage; Pulitzer-prize script
2002Superman: Shadow of ApokolipsLois LaneVideo game[107]
2003Much Ado About NothingBeatriceStage, San Diego
2006Vietnam Nurses with Dana DelanyHostDocumentary
2007Life on the Refrigerator DoorNarratorAudio book by Alice Kuipers
2009PoliWoodHerselfDocumentary
2009Annul VictoryHerselfDocumentary
2013The Parisian WomanChloePlay
2017The Night of the IguanaMaxine FaulkPlay
2018Collective Rage: A Play in 5 BettiesBetty No. 1Off-Broadway production written by Jen Silverman
2024Highway PatrolHerselfPlay

Awards and nominations

Delany at 41st Primetime Emmy Awards, holding the award she won in 1989.[24]
YearAwardCategoryFilm or seriesResult
1989Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Lead Actress in a Drama SeriesChina BeachWon
1989Viewers for Quality Television AwardBest Actress in a Quality Drama SeriesChina BeachWon
1990Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Lead Actress in a Drama SeriesChina BeachNominated
1990Golden Globe AwardBest Actress in a Television Series – DramaChina BeachNominated
1990Viewers for Quality Television AwardBest Actress in a Quality Drama SeriesChina BeachWon
1991Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Lead Actress in a Drama SeriesChina BeachNominated
1991Golden Globe AwardBest Actress in a Television Series – DramaChina BeachNominated
1991Viewers for Quality Television AwardBest Actress in a Quality Drama SeriesChina BeachWon
1992Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Lead Actress in a Drama SeriesChina BeachWon
1998Lone Star Film & TelevisionBest TV ActressTrue WomenWon
2001Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Guest Actress in a Drama SeriesFamily LawNominated
2007TV Land AwardLady You Love to Watch Fight for Her Life in a Movie of the WeekMovie of the WeekNominated
2008Screen Actors Guild AwardOutstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy SeriesDesperate HousewivesNominated
2009PRISM AwardBest Performance in a Comedy SeriesDesperate HousewivesWon
2009Screen Actors Guild AwardOutstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy SeriesDesperate HousewivesNominated
2014Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award[115]Outstanding Lead PerformanceThe Parisian WomanNominated

General source for awards: Family Law:[116] Prism:[117] Screen Actors Guild:[118]

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