![]() ![]() "I always said 'Queer as Folk' was about this waitress," says Gless with a hearty chuckle. Gless' supporting character - quirky and colorful - worked at a diner. Since then, Gless, to no one's surprise, has remained an unstoppable force.Ī few years ago she tackled an unusual role, even for her: The fiercely proud mother of a young homosexual man in Showtime's "Queer as Folk," which depicted a gay lifestyle in startlingly frank terms. Mary Beth Lacey (Tyne Daly) on the classic CBS drama "Cagney & Lacey." A "buddy drama" with realistic women heroes, it broke new ground in the 1980s. Chris Cagney, the crime-busting, disappointed-in-love cop partnered with matriarchal Det. on USA.īut for many viewers, Gless will always be Det. And I just want to ride this out for as long as I can.She's in her third season on her latest series, the action drama "Burn Notice," which airs Thursday at 8 p.m. SHARON GLESS BURN NOTICE SERIESThe chemistry we have between all of the actors on this series is just wonderful, and that isn’t something you can ever take credit or plan for. ![]() I’m on the highest-rated cable show in the nation, thank God - and I’m not even a religious person. I’m having way too good a time now to dwell on any of that. And there’s been a lot of luck involved, too. I wound up doing a lot of theater, because the theater stage is forgiving. I physically changed and the work stopped. When I turned 50, I went into menopause, gave up smoking, I was a newlywed, and I weighed 200 pounds, all at once. SG: Well, there was a five-year drought in there in the 1990s. When I finally won one, the first words out of my mouth were, “I want to thank Tyne Daly, who I’m sure is the most relieved woman in this room.” And she was.ĭH: It seems as if you’ve never really stopped working since then. Was the Emmy ever an issue between Tyne Daly and yourself? But the good news is, the producers are writing better parts for women.ĭH: It’s amazing to realize it was revolutionary at the time of Cagney & Lacey to have 2 women carrying an hour-long drama. SHARON GLESS BURN NOTICE TVMost of my colleagues, Emmy-winning actresses, aren’t working anymore because all of the motion picture actresses my age are getting the parts these wonderful TV actresses used to get. SG: How great is that? Trust me, I’m very aware of how fortunate I am considering my age just to still be working. ![]() And then I got a call from my publicist telling me the fabulous news.ĭH: And it’s your first nomination for a regular series role in 18 years. I thought, I know the sound of a phone not ringing and I don’t want to hear it. I was so nervous about it that I turned off my phone the morning the nominations were announced and went on with my day. At my age, I take nothing for granted, and to still be acknowledged like this by my peers is a wonderful thing. Gless spoke with Ray Richmond for Deadline Hollywood about series work.ĭeadline Hollywood:Does your 10th Emmy nod get to be old hat? For her most recent nod, she competes with Rose Byrne ( Damages), Christine Baranski and Archie Panjabi ( The Good Wife), and Christina Hendricks and Elizabeth Moss ( Mad Men). Along the way, she’s accrued 10 Emmy nominations (winning two for Cagney in 19). After her iconic Emmy-winning role as Det Sgt Christine Cagney on the CBS cop drama Cagney & Lacey in the 1980s, she became a series regular decades later playing Moms on Showtime’s Queer As Folk and then on the USA Network hit Burn Notice. Sharon Gless, age 67, is the quintessential showbiz survivor. ![]()
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