The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.

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).