Dana Delany currently appears as Katherine Mayfair on Desperate Housewives. Delany made her mark as Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on ABC-TV's critically acclaimed series China Beach, for which she received two Emmy Awards and four nominations for Best Dramatic Actress.

Following her graduation from Wesleyan University, Delany, a Stamford, Connecticut native, went to New York where she honed her skills in daytime television and theatre. She starred ... Show More on Broadway in A Life and received critical acclaim in a number of off-Broadway productions, including Nicholas Kazan's Blood Moon, which led to her arrival in Los Angeles for the west coast production of the controversial drama. Opting to stay in Los Angeles after the run of the play, she was soon cast in many popular television shows, including Moonlighting and Magnum, P.I.

Delany has appeared in numerous films including Tombstone, Housesitter, Fly Away Home, Exit to Eden, Light Sleeper, Moon Over Parador, Masquerade, Patty Hearst, Where the River Runs Black and Almost You. In 2008 she will be seen in the independent films Route 30, Multiple Sarcasms and Camp Hope.

Television miniseries include Shake, Rattle & Roll, True Women and Wild Palms. Some of the movies for television in which she has starred include Resurrection and The Patron Saint of Liars, both directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal; For Hope, in which she played a woman suffering from Scleroderma, directed by Bob Saget; Lifetime's Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story; Showtime's Sirens; Rescuers: Stories of Courage; Conviction, with Omar Epps, and The Right Temptation for HBO. She produced and starred in the ABC telefilm Final Jeopardy, based on New York sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein's novel. More recent television series credits include CBS' Presidio Med, Fox's Pasadena and NBC's Kidnapped, opposite Timothy Hutton. Episodic work includes Family Law, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.  Hide

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