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Sharon Gless

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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.


— Sharon Gless


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Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.


— Sharon Gless


#heads #men #network #off #older

Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.


— Sharon Gless


#happens #just #know #like #part

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males.


— Sharon Gless


#males #now #tone #toward #tv

There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.


— Sharon Gless


#air #good #only #really #sitcoms

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.


— Sharon Gless


#babies #paid #praise #raise #who

They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.


— Sharon Gless


#age #avenue #dollars #get #high

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?


— Sharon Gless


#character #christine #her #like #she

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.


— Sharon Gless


#comedy #drama #excelled #few #few women

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.


— Sharon Gless


#drama #half #half hour #hour #i






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Did you know about Sharon Gless?

Her maternal grandfather was Neil McCarthy a prominent Los Angeles attorney for Howard Hughes who also had a large clientele of major film studio executives and actors. Sharon starred in a new production in Miami December 2010 - February 2011 directed by Jane Prowse. Near the end of her contract Sharon Gless was identified in the media as the last of the studio contract players — a salaried Old Hollywood apprentice system which Universal was the last to employ.

Sharon Marguerite Gless (born May 31 1943) is an American character actress of stage film and television who is best known for her roles as Maggie Philbin on Switch (1975–1978) as Sgt. Gless has won two Emmy Awards and has received 10 Emmy nominations has been nominated 7 times for the Golden Globe (winning two in 1986 and 1991) and has received her own Star on the Walk of Fame in 1995. Christine Cagney in the police procedural drama series Cagney & Lacey (1982–1988) and as Debbie Novotny in the Showtime cable television series Queer as Folk (2000–2005).

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