She's bt known for playg the role of an outspoken, eccentric, overbearg PFLAG mom on Queer as Folk, a tough p named Cagney on Cagney & Lacey, and most recently the mouthy mother on Burn Notice. But Sharon Gls has returned to gay and lbian dienc playg a new kd of role: an actual lbian.
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- ‘CAGNEY & LACEY’S SHARON GLS: ‘I THOUGHT I WAS GAY AND H ON ROSIE O’DONNELL’
- CAGNEY & LACEY'S SHARON GLS WONRED IF SHE WAS GAY AFTER ON-SCREEN KISS WH ROSIE O'DONNELL
- SHARON GLSFEW ACTRS HAVE THE DISTCTN OF BEG REGNIZED AND REVERED WORLDWI FOR MULTIPLE INIC ROL GROUNDBREAKG TELEVISN SHOWS. SHARON GLS IS ONE OF THEM.GENERATNS OF TV VIEWERS KNOW AND LOVE THE REMARKABLE CHARACTERS BROUGHT TO LIFE BY THIS STANDOUT MULTI EMMY AND GOLN GLOBE WNG ACTRS: CHRISTE CAGNEY (CAGNEY & LACEY), ROSIE O’NEILL (THE TRIALS OF ROSIE O’NEILL), DEBBIE NOVOTNY (QUEER AS FOLK)AND MALE WTEN (BURN NOTICE), AMONG MANY OTHERS. WH OVER FOUR S OF LIBLE TELEVISN, FILM, AND STAGE ROL TO HER CRED, GLS NTU TO ENCHANT HER LONG TIME FOLLOWERS AND PTIVATE NEW FANS WH EVERY APPEARANCE.IN 1972, THE HEAD OF TALENT AT UNIVERSAL STUDS PERCEIVED A TAKE-NOTICE QUALY SHARON GLS AND SIGNED HER AS AN EXCLIVE NTRACT PLAYER, A VETED BREAKTHROUGH OPPORTUNY FOR ANY YOUNG ACTRS. GLS REMAED UNR NTRACT FOR THE NEXT , UNTIL THE STUD END ALL TALENT NTRACTS 1981. GLS WAS HELD UNTIL 1982, EARMARKG HER AS THE LAST NTRACT PLAYER THE HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD. DURG HER NTRACT YEARS WH UNIVERSAL, GLS APPEARED TOP-RATED TELEVISN SERI CLUDG: THE ROCKFORD FIL, THE BOB NEWHART SHOW, KOJACK, ADAM-12, AND FARADAY AND COMPANY. AFTER RE-OCCURRG GUT-STAR SPOTS ON MARC WELBY, M.D. (WH 25 LN WEEKLY VIEWERS THE 1970’S),GLS WAS OFFERED THE ROLE OF KATHLEEN FAVERTY, JAM BROL’S TEND FIRST LOVE TERT. THAT ONE DIDN’T WORK OUT. ROBERT YOUNG APPRECIATED THE YOUNG RISG STAR’S TALENT AND SHE WAS ST TWO TELEVISN MOVI TO PLAY HIS DGHTER.GLS’ REER ADVANCED WHEN SHE WAS CHOSEN TO PLAY MAGGIE PHILB, THE KOOKY SECRETARY, ON SWCH, STARRG ROBERT WAGNER AND EDDIE ALBERT, FOR ALL THREE SEASONS OM 1975 TO 1978. GLS TOOK ON THE -STARRG ROLE TURNABOUT,(1979), WHICH A MARRIED UPLE, THROUGH MAGIC, SWCH BODI. LOVG THE CROSS-GENR ACTG CHALLENGE, GLS PLAYED PENNY, WHO HAD EMBODIED HER HBAND, SAM. HER NATURALLY HKY VOICE AND PRECISE IC TIMG LED TO PORTRAYG CAROLE LOMBARD THE SUCCSFUL MI-SERI MOVLA:THE SRLETT O’HARA WARS(1980). IT WAS DURG A PROFSNAL SCREENG THAT TELEVISN PRODUCER BARNEY ROSENZWEIG DISVERED GLS AND ENTREATED HER TO STAR HIS UPG TV MOVIE PROJECT, CAGNEY AND LACEY, BUT SHE WAS UNR NTRACT FOR HOE CALLS, STARRG WH WAYNE ROGERS. GLS STEPPED TO THE ROLE OF NEW YORK POLICE DETECTIVE CHRISTE CAGNEY FOR THE SERI 1982, AND CAGNEY AND LACEYMA TELEVISN HISTORY AS THE FIRST HOUR-LONG DRAMA TO FEATURE TWO FEMAL THE LEADG ROL, WHO BROUGHT PUBLIC AWARENS TO SER CULTURAL ISSU FOR WOMEN: DATE RAPE, BREAST NCER, ALHOL ADDICTN, SEXISM THE WORKPLACE, REER CHOIC, ABORTN, AND MORAL DILEMMA. OVER 30 LN AMERIN VIEWERS WATCHED THE SHOW EVERY WEEK AND GLS GARNERED TWO EMMY AWARDS FOR BT LEAD ACTRS A DRAMA AND SIX TOTAL NOMATNS, ALONG WH A GOLN GLOBE AWARD AND SIX NOMATNS DURG THE SHOW’S HIGHLY-RATED N. AFTER THE SHOW END, GLS WON AN ADDNAL GOLN GLOBE FOR HER STARRG ROLE THE DRAMA SERI, THE TRIALS OF ROSIE O’NEILL, AND TWO MORE EMMY NOMATNS. IN POPULAR MAND, GLS, ALSO STARRED A FEATURE FILM WH MICHAEL DOUGLAS, THE STAR CHAMBER, AS WELL AS TELEFILMS: HONOR THY MOTHER, HOBSON’S CHOICE, HARD HAT & LEGS, SEPARATED BY MURR,AND THE HEARTBREAKER, LETTG GO, WH JOHN RTER. FROM 1994 TO 1996, GLS RNED WH TV PARTNER TYNE DALY FOR A QUARTET OF CRILLY ACCLAIMED CAGNEY & LACEY TELEVISN RNN MOVI, THE MENOPSE YEARS. IN 2000, GLS TOOK A DARG CHANCE WH A ROLE THAT OPENED TO VIEWERS THE UNRGROUND LIV OF GAY AND LBIANS AMERI, PLAYG THE OUTRAGEO AND BOLD DEBBIE NOVOTNY QUEER AS FOLK. HER PORTRAYAL OF A VOTED MOTHER TO A GAY SON AND NFIDANT TO HIS GAY IENDS THIS UNEXPECTED SHOWTIME SMASH SERI, TOUCHED UNTLS HEARTS AND CHANGED THE FN OF FAY FOR LNS OF VIEWERS. IN FIVE SEASONS, GLS ACPLISHED WH HER BRILLIANT TERPRETATN OF DEBBIE WHAT HAD PREVLY TAKEN S ACCEPTANCE OF GAY AND LBIAN FAY MEMBERS.
‘CAGNEY & LACEY’S SHARON GLS: ‘I THOUGHT I WAS GAY AND H ON ROSIE O’DONNELL’
But Sharon Gls has returned to gay and lbian dienc. Due to the social ramifitns of homosexualy. a gay person.
CAGNEY & LACEY'S SHARON GLS WONRED IF SHE WAS GAY AFTER ON-SCREEN KISS WH ROSIE O'DONNELL
beg gay. [as a ltle girl] that she's gay. Hannah has excellent gaydar and knows Rachel is gay too.
It's like gays jt. is, the proposn isn't jt about beg gay,. Then, addrsg fans of “Cagney & Lacey” who might have assumed she’d been gay all along, she quipped: “Well, I gave my bt f–kg shot wh the number one lbian on the pla.
SHARON GLSFEW ACTRS HAVE THE DISTCTN OF BEG REGNIZED AND REVERED WORLDWI FOR MULTIPLE INIC ROL GROUNDBREAKG TELEVISN SHOWS. SHARON GLS IS ONE OF THEM.GENERATNS OF TV VIEWERS KNOW AND LOVE THE REMARKABLE CHARACTERS BROUGHT TO LIFE BY THIS STANDOUT MULTI EMMY AND GOLN GLOBE WNG ACTRS: CHRISTE CAGNEY (CAGNEY & LACEY), ROSIE O’NEILL (THE TRIALS OF ROSIE O’NEILL), DEBBIE NOVOTNY (QUEER AS FOLK)AND MALE WTEN (BURN NOTICE), AMONG MANY OTHERS. WH OVER FOUR S OF LIBLE TELEVISN, FILM, AND STAGE ROL TO HER CRED, GLS NTU TO ENCHANT HER LONG TIME FOLLOWERS AND PTIVATE NEW FANS WH EVERY APPEARANCE.IN 1972, THE HEAD OF TALENT AT UNIVERSAL STUDS PERCEIVED A TAKE-NOTICE QUALY SHARON GLS AND SIGNED HER AS AN EXCLIVE NTRACT PLAYER, A VETED BREAKTHROUGH OPPORTUNY FOR ANY YOUNG ACTRS. GLS REMAED UNR NTRACT FOR THE NEXT , UNTIL THE STUD END ALL TALENT NTRACTS 1981. GLS WAS HELD UNTIL 1982, EARMARKG HER AS THE LAST NTRACT PLAYER THE HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD. DURG HER NTRACT YEARS WH UNIVERSAL, GLS APPEARED TOP-RATED TELEVISN SERI CLUDG: THE ROCKFORD FIL, THE BOB NEWHART SHOW, KOJACK, ADAM-12, AND FARADAY AND COMPANY. AFTER RE-OCCURRG GUT-STAR SPOTS ON MARC WELBY, M.D. (WH 25 LN WEEKLY VIEWERS THE 1970’S),GLS WAS OFFERED THE ROLE OF KATHLEEN FAVERTY, JAM BROL’S TEND FIRST LOVE TERT. THAT ONE DIDN’T WORK OUT. ROBERT YOUNG APPRECIATED THE YOUNG RISG STAR’S TALENT AND SHE WAS ST TWO TELEVISN MOVI TO PLAY HIS DGHTER.GLS’ REER ADVANCED WHEN SHE WAS CHOSEN TO PLAY MAGGIE PHILB, THE KOOKY SECRETARY, ON SWCH, STARRG ROBERT WAGNER AND EDDIE ALBERT, FOR ALL THREE SEASONS OM 1975 TO 1978. GLS TOOK ON THE -STARRG ROLE TURNABOUT,(1979), WHICH A MARRIED UPLE, THROUGH MAGIC, SWCH BODI. LOVG THE CROSS-GENR ACTG CHALLENGE, GLS PLAYED PENNY, WHO HAD EMBODIED HER HBAND, SAM. HER NATURALLY HKY VOICE AND PRECISE IC TIMG LED TO PORTRAYG CAROLE LOMBARD THE SUCCSFUL MI-SERI MOVLA:THE SRLETT O’HARA WARS(1980). IT WAS DURG A PROFSNAL SCREENG THAT TELEVISN PRODUCER BARNEY ROSENZWEIG DISVERED GLS AND ENTREATED HER TO STAR HIS UPG TV MOVIE PROJECT, CAGNEY AND LACEY, BUT SHE WAS UNR NTRACT FOR HOE CALLS, STARRG WH WAYNE ROGERS. GLS STEPPED TO THE ROLE OF NEW YORK POLICE DETECTIVE CHRISTE CAGNEY FOR THE SERI 1982, AND CAGNEY AND LACEYMA TELEVISN HISTORY AS THE FIRST HOUR-LONG DRAMA TO FEATURE TWO FEMAL THE LEADG ROL, WHO BROUGHT PUBLIC AWARENS TO SER CULTURAL ISSU FOR WOMEN: DATE RAPE, BREAST NCER, ALHOL ADDICTN, SEXISM THE WORKPLACE, REER CHOIC, ABORTN, AND MORAL DILEMMA. OVER 30 LN AMERIN VIEWERS WATCHED THE SHOW EVERY WEEK AND GLS GARNERED TWO EMMY AWARDS FOR BT LEAD ACTRS A DRAMA AND SIX TOTAL NOMATNS, ALONG WH A GOLN GLOBE AWARD AND SIX NOMATNS DURG THE SHOW’S HIGHLY-RATED N. AFTER THE SHOW END, GLS WON AN ADDNAL GOLN GLOBE FOR HER STARRG ROLE THE DRAMA SERI, THE TRIALS OF ROSIE O’NEILL, AND TWO MORE EMMY NOMATNS. IN POPULAR MAND, GLS, ALSO STARRED A FEATURE FILM WH MICHAEL DOUGLAS, THE STAR CHAMBER, AS WELL AS TELEFILMS: HONOR THY MOTHER, HOBSON’S CHOICE, HARD HAT & LEGS, SEPARATED BY MURR,AND THE HEARTBREAKER, LETTG GO, WH JOHN RTER. FROM 1994 TO 1996, GLS RNED WH TV PARTNER TYNE DALY FOR A QUARTET OF CRILLY ACCLAIMED CAGNEY & LACEY TELEVISN RNN MOVI, THE MENOPSE YEARS. IN 2000, GLS TOOK A DARG CHANCE WH A ROLE THAT OPENED TO VIEWERS THE UNRGROUND LIV OF GAY AND LBIANS AMERI, PLAYG THE OUTRAGEO AND BOLD DEBBIE NOVOTNY QUEER AS FOLK. HER PORTRAYAL OF A VOTED MOTHER TO A GAY SON AND NFIDANT TO HIS GAY IENDS THIS UNEXPECTED SHOWTIME SMASH SERI, TOUCHED UNTLS HEARTS AND CHANGED THE FN OF FAY FOR LNS OF VIEWERS. IN FIVE SEASONS, GLS ACPLISHED WH HER BRILLIANT TERPRETATN OF DEBBIE WHAT HAD PREVLY TAKEN S ACCEPTANCE OF GAY AND LBIAN FAY MEMBERS.
However, nothg uld have prepared her for the obssive attentn of gay stalker, Joneigh Lee Penn, who was sentenced to six years prison July 1990 after menacg the actrs, even threateng to sexually asslt her. In her book, Sharon Gls also tails her experience wh a dangero gay stalker. Lots of fans of "Cagney & Lacey" thought Gls was gay...
The actrs, 78, also starred the Showtime drama Queer As Folk om 2000 to 2005, and she has admted her new memoir, Apparently There Were Complats, that she began to wonr if she might be gay after kissg Rosie for one scene that aired after she nfsed that she was 'nfed' to Rosie one night at dner, the edian, 59, quickly shut her down. Sharon Gls has revealed that she once wonred if she was gay after sharg an on-screen kiss wh Rosie O'Donnell - until Rosie assured her: 'No, you are so straight' The actrs, 78, admted that she began to qutn her sexualy after sharg a kiss wh Rosie durg one scene of the show Queer as Folk Rosie ma a gut appearance the fal season of the show as a woman named Loretta Pye, an abe victim who worked at the lol der and fell for Sharon's character, Debbie NovotnySharon ma the revelatn her memoir, which was published on December ma a gut appearance three episos of the fal season of Queer as Folk, which Sharon played Debbie appeared as Loretta Pye, an abe victim who worked at the lol der and fell for her mentor, two shared a kiss on screen — Sharon's first wh another woman.
Rosie, meanwhile, me out as gay Febary 2002 and was briefly married to Kelli Carpenter then tied the knot wh Michelle Rounds 2012, but they divorced three years later. It tackled almost every topic the gay muny. Y, there were some filler episos but that's to be also was at a major change how gays were perceived wh gay marriage Canada, Queer Eye, and so many other issu.