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
I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women,
Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama,
It's not the networks, it's the advertisers who want to appeal to the young males who go to the movies and buy all of this stuff.
The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males,
I'm not unaware of the fact that probably my biggest audience is lesbians, and is probably the main reason why I've attained the success that I have,
Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.
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.
All men are difficult.
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.