Body of Proof
Genre	Medical drama Comedy-drama
Format	Police procedural
Created by	Christopher Murphey
Starring	Dana Delany Jeri Ryan John Carroll Lynch Nicholas Bishop Sonja Sohn Geoffrey Arend Windell Middlebrooks Mary Mouser
Theme music composer	Daniel Licht
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	29 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Matthew Gross Christopher Murphey Sunil Nayar
Running time	42 minutes
Production company(s)	Gross Entertainment ABC Studios
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Audio format	Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1
Original run	March 29, 2011 (2011-03-29) – present
External links
Website

Body of Proof is an American medical drama television series created by Chris Murphey and produced by ABC Studios. Starring Dana Delany as medical examiner Dr. Megan Hunt, the series premiered on March 29, 2011 on ABC. On May 11, 2012 ABC announced that Body of Proof was renewed for a third season.^[1]

Overview[link]

The series stars Dana Delany as Dr. Megan Hunt, a medical examiner. The show focuses on Hunt's efforts to balance the demands of her professional life, dealing with solving cases and analyzing bodies, with her personal life, trying to reconnect with her estranged daughter.^[2] Hunt was a top-flight neurosurgeon, until she had a life-changing automobile accident and then accidentally killed a patient on the operating table. This resulted in her resignation, and retirement from the profession altogether.

Cast[link]

Main cast[link]

• Dana Delany as Dr. Megan Hunt: Former neurosurgeon and now medical examiner. Megan Hunt was a brilliant neurosurgeon until a life-changing car accident prevented her from continuing to work in the operating room. Now she uses her medical knowledge and investigative instincts to solve the medical mysteries of the dead.
• Nicholas Bishop as Peter Dunlop: Former police officer and now medico-legal investigator. After a gunshot ripped through his shoulder during a convenience store robbery, Peter found himself inside a rehab facility. As partner and confidant to Dr. Megan Hunt, Peter now finds himself investigating Philadelphia's mysterious medical cases. Peter was adopted as an infant after his biological mother Katie died from a hemorrage after giving birth to him and his father Jack Cranston placed him up for adoption because he couldn't raise him.
• Jeri Ryan as Dr. Kate Murphy: imperious Chief Medical Examiner^[3] and Megan's superior. She is the first female Chief M.E. in Philadelphia's history.
• John Carroll Lynch as Detective Bud Morris: Homicide detective. A hardheaded, straight-shooting veteran of the Philadelphia Homicide Division, he fights for justice on the streets of Philly while fighting a personal battle at home, mending a crumbling relationship with his wife who just kicked him out of their Center City brownstone. He often clashes with Megan at crime scenes over their different views.
• Sonja Sohn as Detective Samantha Baker: Homicide detective. Partner of Bud Morris.
• Geoffrey Arend as Dr. Ethan Gross: Forensic pathology fellow. Ethan is the youngest and most enthusiastic fellow in the medical examiner's office.
• Windell Middlebrooks as Dr. Curtis Brumfield: Deputy Chief M.E.; blustery but capable and intelligent.
• Mary Mouser as Lacey Fleming (season 1, recurring; seasons 2 – present, regular): Megan's daughter; her father has full custody of her in season 1. Both parents share joint custody in season 2. She has been recently diagnosed with diabetes.

Recurring cast[link]

• Jeffrey Nordling as Todd Fleming; Megan's ex-husband.
• Joanna Cassidy as Judge Joan Hunt; Megan's mother.
• Cliff Curtis as FBI agent Derek Ames; potential love interest for Megan in season 2.
• Nathalie Kelley as Dani Alvarez; driver who delivers dead bodies to the M.E.'s office, and a love interest of Peter.^[4] She dies in episode "Going Viral Part One" in Season 2.
• Jamie Bamber as landscape architect Aiden Welles; love interest for Megan in season 2.^[5]

Episodes[link]

Production[link]

Though set in Philadelphia, the first season of Body of Proof was filmed in Providence, Rhode Island^[6] and some other locations including Woonsocket and Warwick, Rhode Island. The series was originally titled Body of Evidence but was later renamed Body of Proof. It was announced that the second season of the show would be filmed in Los Angeles to take advantage of a $7 million tax credit.^[7] Body of Proof is the third ABC television series starring Dana Delany in a main character role, the first being the role of Colleen McMurphy in China Beach and the second being Katherine Mayfair in Desperate Housewives.

Release[link]

Broadcast[link]

The show was set to premiere on Friday nights on ABC on October 22, 2010.^[8] However, following the quick cancellations of Thursday night drama My Generation and Wednesday night drama The Whole Truth, the network held back the series.^[9] The series premiered Tuesday, March 29, 2011, at 10:00 pm Eastern/9:00 pm Central, replacing Detroit 1-8-7.^[10] The last of its nine first season episodes aired May 17, 2011, four days after ABC renewed the series for a second season.^[11] The show's second season ran from September 20, 2011 to April 20, 2012.^[12] On May 11, 2012, ABC officially renewed Body of Proof for a third season of 13 episodes.^[13]

International broadcasts[link]

In Canada, Body of Proof is on Citytv, simulcast with the ABC broadcast. The series premiered in Italy on January 25, 2011, on the pay TV channel Fox Life.^[14] After the Italian world premiere, Body of Proof was scheduled to debut in other European countries before the American start.^[15] In Russia, the series premiered on February 7, 2011, on Channel One.^[16] In the UK, the series premiered on July 19, 2011, on Alibi, channel head Steve Hornsey said of picking up the series, "As TV's ultimate compendium of crime drama, Alibi aims to select the very best series in the genre from around the globe. Body Of Proof is exactly that. A stand-out show that promises to be a huge hit in the US, Body Of Proof means more premium and exclusive content for the channel – and more thrilling and engaging viewing for our audience."^[17] The series premiered on January 10, 2012 on Channel 5 and Channel 5+1 (Freeview / FTA).

In Bulgaria the show premiered on March 17, 2011 on Fox Crime. In Latin America the show was broadcast in 2011 by Sony Entertainment Television. In Australia, the series premiered on August 8, 2011, on Channel Seven at 8:30 pm.^{[citation needed]} In Germany, it premiered August 24, 2011, on ProSieben. On January 20, 2012, Season 2 premiered on sister station kabel eins^[18]. In Germany, the original episode 5 of season 2 aired as episode 10 of season 1 on ProSieben. In Poland, the series premiered on February 23, 2011, on Fox Life HD. In South Africa it premiered on December 8, 2011 on MNet.^[19] In Slovenia, the series will premiere on December 13, 2011, on POP TV at 10:35 pm. In Norway the series premiered on January 1, 2012 with double episodes on TV Norge at 9:30 pm. In Finland the series premiered on December 21, 2011, on Nelonen at 9:00 pm, replacing Grey's Anatomy. In Latvia the series premiered on February 21, 2012, on Fox life at 9:00 pm. In Hong Kong the series premiered on February 22, 2012, on TVB Pearl at 8:30 pm. In Ireland, the show premiered Saturday March 10, 2012 on RTÉ1 at 11.15 pm.^[20]In Japan, the show will premier on June 6, 2012 on WOWOW in Dub. version. And, Season 2 will be start in August, 2012 on the same channel.

DVD release[link]

Reception[link]

Critical reception[link]

The show was met with mixed reviews: 21 critics at Metacritic gave the show's first season a score of 56 out of 100.^[23] Entertainment Weekly included the show in the 10 TV events to look forward to in 2011.^[24] Critic David Hinckley from the New York Daily News gave the show a positive review, noting it "would be interesting enough if it were just Quincy with better legs. Add the other elements and you have something worth checking out at 10 o'clock".^[25] Other reviews have been more negative, commenting on the clichéd plot and character development. Las Vegas Weekly critic Josh Bell commented that "The problem is that Megan’s personal issues are as clichéd and clumsily presented as her boilerplate murder cases, and the show makes strained connections between the two that don’t really hold together."^[26] The Detroit News called it "Saggy, predictable and preachy, the series debut was delayed for months and still doesn't have what it takes to impress viewers. What a poor replacement for Detroit 1-8-7 (Ironically, Detroit 1–8–7 was cancelled and Body of Proof was renewed)."^[27] The Los Angeles Times said "Murphey and the writers will have to do a lot of heavy lifting for Body of Proof to transcend its immediate predictability. There's only so much Delany can do with a cardboard show. God may be in the details, but the walls still have to hold."^[28]

Ratings[link]

The series premiere (Tuesday, March 29, 2011) drew 14 million viewers.^[29] It finished in the top 10 in Nielsen ratings for the week, and was the second-most watched premiere of the 2010–2011 season, following CBS' Hawaii Five-0.^[30] ABC ran the second episode on Sunday April 3, 2011; it dropped to 8.5 million viewers. The third episode aired two days later and drew 11 million viewers; the show again won its time slot.^[31] The first season averaged 13.68 million viewers making it the second most-watched scripted drama on ABC.^[32]

See also[link]

• List of fictional medical examiners

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Body of Proof at the Internet Movie Database
• Body of Proof at TV.com

Dana Delany
Born	Dana Welles Delany (1956-03-13) March 13, 1956 (age 56) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, producer
Years active	1974–present
Website
www.danadelany.com

Dana Welles Delany (born March 13, 1956) is an American film, stage, and television actress, producer, presenter, and health activist.

Delany has been active in show business since the late 1970s. Following small roles early in her career, Delany garnered her first leading role in 1987 in the short-lived NBC sitcom Sweet Surrender and achieved wider fame in 1988–1991 as Colleen McMurphy on the ABC television show China Beach,^[1][2] for which she won two Emmy Awards. She received further recognition for her performances in the films Light Sleeper (1992), Tombstone (1993), Exit to Eden (1994), The Margaret Sanger Story (1995), Fly Away Home (1996), True Women (1997) and Wide Awake (1998). Since the mid-1990s, Delany has served on the board of the Scleroderma Research Foundation.

In 2000s she returned to television with a string of short-lived television series beginning with Pasadena (2001), Presidio Med (2002–2003), and Kidnapped (2006–2007). From 2007 to 2010 Delany played Katherine Mayfair on the ABC series Desperate Housewives.^[3] As of 2011^[update] she is in the lead role as Megan Hunt on the ABC drama series Body of Proof.^[4][5]

Delany is also a voice-actress. She played Lois Lane in the DC Animated Universe as well as the television series The Batman. In an interview, she said she loves to play "complicated characters".^[6]

Early life[link]

Delany was born in New York City to parents of Irish descent^[7] and was raised Catholic.^[8] She has remarked that, even as a child, she always wanted to go into acting.^[9] "The reason a person first gets into acting is because you want attention from your parents as a child," she told a reporter.^[10] In her childhood, she went with her family to many Broadway shows, and was fascinated by films.^[10]

After growing up in Stamford, Connecticut, she attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts for her senior year, and was a member of the school's first co-educational class that included jazz composer Bill Cunliffe, software executive Peter Currie, artist Julian Hatton, poet Karl Kirchwey, writer Nate Lee, editor Sara Nelson restaurateur Priscilla Martel and sculptor Gar Waterman. "Andover was the best time of my life," she recalled.^[11] She played the lead role of Nellie Forbush in the school's spring musical production of South Pacific playing opposite Peter Kapetan as Emile.^[12] She commented: "It was just a little awkward to be Nellie at first because she hesitates to marry Emile since he had once lived with a Polynesian woman -- I don't agree with her reasoning so that made things a bit hard at the beginning."^[13] She appeared in a student video directed by classmate Jonathan Meath in a film class taught by Steve Marx. She graduated in 1974 with the academic honor of "cum laude" which was awarded to 80 out of 378 graduating seniors.^[14] She majored in theater at Wesleyan University, worked in summer stock productions during vacations, and graduated in 1978.^[10][15][16] Later, in an interview, she reported that she sometimes had eating issues during this time of her life.^[17] She said: "I binged... I starved ... I was one step from anorexia –a piece of toast and an apple would be all I would eat in a day."^[17]

Career[link]

[edit] 1980s: Stage, television, China Beach

Delany at the 1992 Emmy awards

After college, she found acting work in New York City in daytime soap operas. She starred in the Broadway show A Life and won critical acclaim in 1983 in Nicholas Kazan's off-Broadway Blood Moon, where the New York Times cited her "skillful verisimilitude" handling a difficult part requiring two roles "and she does them both with authority."^[18] Delany moved to Hollywood and during the next few years found work guest starring in TV shows like Moonlighting and Magnum, P.I..

Dana Delany's first audition for the lead role of nurse Colleen McMurphy was unsuccessful. "They thought I wasn't pretty enough", she said in an interview, but heeding advice from director Paul Schrader, who had directed her in the film Patty Hearst,^[19] she "cut her long tresses into a bob" and re-auditioned with this new haircut, successfully, after the producers lost their first choice.^[20] She won the lead role on the critically acclaimed China Beach, which appeared weekly from 1988 to 1991 and brought intense media attention to the actress.^[21] This role not only garnered two Emmy Award,^[22] but two other Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations.^[23][24] After several seasons the show suffered from mediocre ratings and was discontinued in 1991.^[21]

1990s: Movies, television, voice[link]

In 1991, Dana Delany was chosen by People magazine as one of the "50 most beautiful people in the world."^[25] In the years following China Beach, Delany worked steadily in television, movies and theater. In addition, she established herself as a significant voice talent.

Delany won leading roles in a string of feature films such as the TV movie A Promise to Keep, Light Sleeper, Housesitter and Fly Away Home as well as appearing in the TV mini-series Wild Palms. She also took on controversial roles, such as Mistress Lisa in Exit to Eden, where one film critic commented "The script was awful -- Dana looked great."^[26] Delany commented in a 2008 interview about the audience reaction: "I had already got pilloried for playing the Exit to Eden dominatrix after China Beach because audiences had a certain image of me as Colleen and didn’t want to see it change."^[27] The provocatively titled Live Nude Girls included frank discussion by women of their sexual fantasies at a bachelorette party using a low-budget improvisational comedy format with strong chemistry between the actors.^[28] Reviews were mixed: Los Angeles Times critic Richard Natale liked the film but wrote older male film executives believed it to be "uncommercial"; another critic agreed it was "genuine girl talk" but "didn't have a lot of substance" and viewers "don't get to know the characters in the film".^[29][30] She also starred as Margaret Sanger in the TV movie Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story (1995), about a controversial nurse who crusaded for women's reproductive rights in the early 1900s.^[31][32]

In 1995, Delany appeared in the Broadway show Translations and in May 1997, Delany returned to her alma mater Phillips Academy to work with theater students as an artist-in-residence.^[12] She appeared in TV movies such as True Women (1997) and Resurrection (1999).^[33][34]

In 1998, Delany reportedly turned down the role of Carrie Bradshaw in the hit TV show Sex and the City.^[35] She commented in a subsequent interview: "The show’s creator Darren Star asked me to play Carrie ... Darren got the idea of televising Candace Bushnell’s Sex and the City from seeing me and Kim (Kim Cattrall) in Live Nude Girls."^[36] Delany declined the role partly after remembering the negative audience reaction she received with a similar film, Exit to Eden, a few years back.^[36] Sex and the City became a successful series, and the role of Carrie made Sarah Jessica Parker world-famous.

Delany played a gun-toting mother in an episode of the TV series Family Law (1999) for which she earned an Emmy nomination, but the series was not rerun due to sponsorship withdrawal.^[37]

Work as Lois Lane[link]

Dana Delany has performed substantial voice work periodically. She portrayed Andrea Beaumont in the 1993 animated feature film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm based on the popular TV show Batman: The Animated Series.^[38] Delany's voice performance in the film impressed filmmakers and led to her being cast as Lois Lane in Superman: The Animated Series.^[39] She was also mentioned by name in the theme song of Animaniacs, another Warner Bros. production.^[40] She reprised her role as Lois Lane for the character's guest appearances in Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, and The Batman.^[41] She returned to the DC Universe in an episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold as Vilsi, an alternate universe variation of Lois Lane. Coincidentally, Delany's future Desperate Housewives co-star, Teri Hatcher, also portrayed Lois Lane on the live-action TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.^[42][43]

[edit] 2000s: Television, movies, stage, Desperate Housewives

Delany, Teri Hatcher, Brenda Strong and Andrea Bowen at the 2009 GLAAD Media Awards.

Delany continued to find work in a variety of projects, doing pilots, TV series, made-for-TV movies, and feature films. She appeared in the NBC drama Good Guys/Bad Guys (2000), which Newsweek termed a "Sopranos knock-off".^[44] She appeared in the short-lived Pasadena (2001), a critically acclaimed Fox production which was "underpromoted and endlessly pre-empted" and described as a "twisted rich-family saga" with a "great cast".^[45][46][47] Delany commented in an interview: "You can see Pasadena as a black comedy or see it as really tragic. A lot of soaps on television now don't have that layer of tragedy to them."^[48] She was an actor and co-executive producer of the film Final Jeopardy (2001).^[49] New York Daily News TV critic David Bianculli gave a positive review to both her performance as an actor -- "Delany, as always, does pensive and independent better than most actresses" -- and as a producer.^[50] She played a doctor in the TV series Presidio Med (2002), described as a "conventional but pleasant drama populated by characters dedicated to medicine who also have messy personal lives."^[51][52][53] She appeared in TV movies such as A Time to Remember (2003), and Baby for Sale (2004).^[54][55] She appeared in feature films by indie film producers, such as The Outfitters (1999), Mother Ghost (2002), and Spin (2003).^[56][57][58]

Returning to theater, she played an artsy and incompetent woman who questions the "imposed conventions of society" after discovering her husband's affair in the Pulitzer-prize winning Dinner With Friends (2000, New York City, Los Angeles, Boston); her performance earned positive reviews generally.^[59][60] She played Beatrice in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (2003, San Diego); one critic described the "verbal sparring" between Delany and actor Billy Campbell as a "joy".^[61]

From 2004 to 2006, Delany played many guest roles on TV shows, such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Boston Legal, Kojak, Related, The L Word, and Battlestar Galactica.^[62] She also starred in the short-lived TV series Kidnapped (2006).^[63][64] One critic wrote "Delany is alternately furious and despondent as Ellie, and she and Hutton (Timothy Hutton) can do more without words than other actors can do with pages of dialogue. They’re absolutely convincing as rich, complicated Manhattanites and as parents who come face to face with the scary reality that they can’t always protect their kids."^[65]

Delany appeared as herself in the TV documentary Vietnam Nurses with Dana Delany which explored their lives and treatment after returning to the United States.^[66] Delany has become "something of a heroine to the nurses who served in Vietnam", according to Los Angeles Times writer Susan King, who noted that the actress worked on a nationwide nurse recruitment program in 1990 called the McMurphy project.^[67]

In 2007, Delany appeared in the films A Beautiful Life, Camp Hope, and Multiple Sarcasms.^[68][69][70]

Delany initially declined the offer to play one of the four Desperate Housewives principal characters, Bree Van De Kamp, saying it was too similar to her role on Pasadena.^[71] The show became a popular prime-time soap opera with substantial ratings. But in 2007 she was again offered a role by producer Marc Cherry, this time as a supporting housewife, and she joined the cast of the well-established series for the 2007–08 season.^[72][73][74] Reaction to the addition of Delany was positive; one critic wrote "...casting Dana Delany as Katherine Mayfair in Season 4 is one of the smartest things Cherry has ever done ... Not many actors can deftly deliver both comedy and drama, but Delany makes it look easy."^[75] She commented about playing housewife Katherine Mayfair: "The hardest thing for me was figuring out the tone of the piece because it's such a specific tone - so it was more of an acting challenge than anything else."^[76] She commented in 2008: “I hope that she (Katherine Mayfair) doesn’t lose her snarkiness, because that’s always fun to play.”^[77] On May 13, 2008, it was announced that Delany would reprise her role on Desperate Housewives for season five, having been promoted to the sixth lead.^[78][79][80]

2010s: New series and movies[link]

In March 2010, Delany appeared as FBI agent Jordan Shaw in a two-part story on the TV series Castle, which stars Nathan Fillion, who played her character's second husband on Desperate Housewives.^[81]

Delany left Desperate Housewives to star in the new ABC series Body of Proof originally slated to begin airing in late 2010.^[82] Delany also voiced a character Margaret Rosenblatt in the film Firebreather in 2010.^[83]

In 2011 in Body of Proof, Delany plays a brilliant neurosurgeon turned medical examiner after a car accident causes her to lose dexterity in her hands.^[84] Ironically, Delany in real life had an experience similar to her character of Dr. Megan Hunt. Two weeks before filming the pilot episode, Delany's car was hit by a bus in Santa Monica; two fingers of her hand were broken and her car was totaled.^[6] Delany describes her character in Body of Proof as being "complicated, smart, and definitely complex."^[6]

In April 2011 Delany came 9th in People magazine's annual 100 Most Beautiful list.^[85]

In May 2011 Delany was the host of the fourth annual Television Academy Honors.^[86]

Delany is currently filming the crime drama Freelancers with director Jessy Terrero. The film also stars Robert De Niro, Forest Whitaker, and 50 Cent, and is set for a 2012 release.^[87]

Personal and public life[link]

Dana Delany in September 2008

Since the mid-1990s, Delany has served on the board of the Scleroderma Research Foundation, and with her friend Sharon Monsky, she helped campaign for support in finding a cure for scleroderma.^[88] Working with director Bob Saget, she starred in the TV movie For Hope (1996), based on Saget's sister Gay, who had died as a result of the disease.^[89] She appeared as a contestant on Celebrity Jeopardy in 2001, 2006 and 2009 to raise money for scleroderma research.^[90] Scleroderma "robs these women of not only their own lives in many cases, but robs their families which include countless children," she explained in 2002.^[91]

Delany is a board member of the arts advocacy organization Creative Coalition.^[92][93] She appeared in June 2009 in an onstage meeting in New York alongside White House social secretary Desiree Rogers to discuss ways to promote American cinematic creativity.^[94][95] In August 2009 Delany was named co-president of the Creative Coalition, joining Tim Daly in the leadership of the organization.^[96] Delany explained her support for the arts in an interview: "I just think it's so important for children and the future of the country and people's general happiness. I'm one of those people who, whenever I feel cut off spiritually or emotionally, I go to a museum or a play or a movie, and I'm just transported."^[97] She participated as a celebrity guest in fundraising events which support the rights of same-sex couples to marry.^[98]

In addition, she has supported Planned Parenthood. She attended the organization's 90th birthday celebration in New York City in 2006. Delany said: "It's hard to imagine where we'd be in this country had Margaret Sanger not founded that first clinic here in New York, 90 years ago." She attended events sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.^{[99][100][101]}

Delany commented about her personal life in an interview in 2006: "I turned 50 and I'm ready to get married... I don't know who he is yet but I'm ready... He has to be smart, funny and kind."^[102] She added a year later: "Marriage has never been a big deal for me... But I think I’m ready now... I got to have all the fun in the world, to experience a lot of people and figure out what I really like."^[103] Delany (in 1988) said she doesn't find being a celebrity to be that appealing: "I'm not a 'personality'. I am never recognized, which I take as a compliment. I have a love-hate thing with publicity."^[10]

Delany, in 2003, tried having an injection of botox in her forehead, but the needle hit a nerve and created a hematoma which affected the muscle in her right eye, causing it to droop slightly. In 2010, she vowed she will never have plastic surgery.^[17] She told Prevention in 2010 that she prefers eating healthily, including vegetables, tofu, fish, gluten-free pasta, and bread.^[104] Since she plays a neurosurgeon in her new ABC drama Body of Proof, she refuses to eat turkey sausage because of a perceived similarity with intestines seen on the set.^[104]

In April 2011 Delany came 9th in People magazine's annual 100 Most Beautiful list.^[85]

She is a user of the Irish language.^[105]

Filmography[link]

Dana Delany at 1991 Emmy Awards

Year	Film/play/TV/other	Role	Other notes
1974	South Pacific	Nellie Forbush	Musical at Phillips Academy
1978	Ryan's Hope	Ryan's bar patron
1979	Love of Life	Amy Russell
1980	A Life		Broadway play
1981	The Fan	Saleswoman in record store
	As the World Turns	Hayley Wilson Hollister
1983	Wisk detergent	Lady in an elevator	TV commercial (opposite Tom McBride)
	Blood Moon	Innocent pre-med student	Off-broadway production by Nicholas Kazan
1984	Almost You	Susan McCall
	Threesome	Laura Shaper
	The Streets	Jeannie
1985	Moonlighting	Jillian Armstrong	"Knowing Her," episode 206
	Magnum, P.I.	Cynthia Farrell	Episodes 7.1, 7.2, 7.19
1986	A Winner Never Quits	Nora
	Where the River Runs Black	Sister Ana
	Liberty	Moya Trevor
1987	Sweet Surrender	Georgia Holden
1988	Patty Hearst	Gelina
	Masquerade	Anne Briscoe
	Moon over Parador	Jenny
	thirtysomething	Eve	South by Southeast season 1, episode 10
	China Beach	Colleen McMurphy	62 episodes 1988–1991
1990	A Promise to Keep	Jane Goodrich
1992	Light Sleeper	Marianne
	Housesitter	Becky Metcalf
	Cheers	Susan Metheny	Season 11, episode 11
1993	Wild Palms	Grace Wyckoff
	Donato and Daughter	Lieutenant Dena Donato
	Tombstone	Josephine Marcus
	Batman: Mask of the Phantasm	Andrea Beaumont	(voice)
1994	The Enemy Within[disambiguation needed ]	Betsy Corcoran
	Exit to Eden	Lisa Emerson
	Texan[disambiguation needed ]
1995	Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story	Margaret Sanger
	Live Nude Girls'	Jill
	Fallen Angels	Helen Fiske
	Translations	Maire	Broadway play (short-lived)
1996	Superman: The Animated Series	Lois Lane	(voice) (43 episodes 1996–2000)
	Fly Away Home	Susan Barnes
	The Adventures of Mowgli	Bagheera	(voice) English version
	For Hope	Hope Altman
	Wing Commander Academy	Gwen Archer Bowman	(voice) 13 episodes
1997	True Women	Sarah Ashby McClure
	Spy Game	Honey Trapp	Season 1, episode 4
	Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man	Dr. Susan Fox	(voice)
1998	Wide Awake	Mrs. Beal
	The Curve	Dr. Ashley
	Rescuers: Stories of Courage — Two Couples	Johtje Vos
	The Patron Saint of Liars	Rose Cleardon Abbott
	The Batman/Superman Movie: World's Finest	Lois Lane	(voice)
	Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu		Documentary
1999	Outfitters	Cat Bonfaim
	Sirens	Sally Rawlings
	Resurrection	Clare Miller
	Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story	Elaine Gunn
2000	The Right Temptation	Anthea Farrow-Smith
	Dinner With Friends	Beth	Stage; Pulitzer-prize script
2001	Final Jeopardy	Alexandra Cooper	Delany was actor, co-executive producer
	Family Law	Mary Sullivan	Episode "Safe At Home"
	Pasadena	Catherine McAllister	13 episodes (2001–2002)
2002	Conviction	Martha
	Mother Ghost	Karen Bennett
	Superman: Shadow of Apokolips	Lois Lane	(voice)
	Presidio Med	Dr. Rae Brennan	13 episodes
2003	Intimate Portrait: Dana Delany	Herself
	Justice League	Lois Lane	(voice) (10 episodes 2003–2005)
	Spin	Margaret Swift-Bejarano
	A Time to Remember	Britt Calhoun	aka "Turning Homeward"
	Much Ado About Nothing	Beatrice	Stage, San Diego
2004	Baby for Sale	Nathalie Johnson
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Carolyn Spencer	"Obscene", episode 603
	Justice League Unlimited	Loana	(voice) "For the Man who has Everything"
	Boston Legal	Samantha Fleming	1 episode
2005	Related	Francesca Sorelli	Season 1, episodes 7,18
	Getting to Know You	Marla
	Kojak	Kate McNeil
2006	Battlestar Galactica	Sesha Abinell
	Superman: Brainiac Attacks	Lois Lane	Voice
	The Woman with the Hungry Eyes	Theda Bara	Voice
	Kidnapped	Ellie Cain	13 episodes (2006–2007)
	The L Word	Senator Barbara Grisham
	Vietnam Nurses with Dana Delany	Host	Documentary
2007	Drunkboat	Eileen
	The Batman	Lois Lane	Voice (2 episodes)
	Life on the Refrigerator Door	Narrator	Audio book by Alice Kuipers
2007–2010 2012	Desperate Housewives	Katherine Mayfair	Series regular (3 seasons; 64 episodes)
2008	Route 30	Amish Martha
	Flying Lessons	Jeanne
2009	Multiple Sarcasms	Annie
	A Beautiful Life	Anne
	Camp Hope	Patricia
	PoliWood	Herself	Documentary
	Annul Victory	Herself	Documentary
2010	Castle	Agent Jordan Shaw	2 episodes; season 2, episodes 17–18
	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Vilsi Vaylar	voice
	Firebreather	Margaret	voice[83]
2011–present	Body of Proof	Dr. Megan Hunt	Series regular
2011	Television Academy Honors	Host
2012	Freelancers		Filming

Awards and nominations[link]

Delany at 1989 Emmy Awards, holding the award she won for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

General source for awards:^[106]

Additional sources—Family Law:^[107] Prism:^[108] Screen Actors Guild:^[109] Lone Star Film & Television:^[106] TV Land:^[106]

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