SHARON GLESS

Show business is in Sharon Gless’ blood. Her grandfather, Neil S. McCarthy, was an entertainment lawyer during Hollywood’s Golden Age, and his clients included Howard Hughes, Louis B. Mayer and Cecil B. DeMille. Beginning her acting career in the late 1960s, Gless was the last remaining performer to be working under a standard studio contract, having been signed to a 10-year deal in 1972.

Sharon continues to work nonstop, with the following currently occupying her time:

• Gless recently wrapped production on a television series pilot for USA Network, tentatively titled “Burn Notice,” in which she stars opposite Jeffrey Donovan and Bruce Campbell.

• This year is the 25th anniversary of groundbreaking TV drama “Cagney & Lacey,” which earned her Emmy and Golden Globe accolades.

• She stars in the 6-hour miniseries “The State Within” for BBC & BBC America, which recently aired in the UK and which premieres in the U.S. in February 2007. Co-starring with Jason Isaacs, Gless plays the U.S. Secretary of Defense during an international crisis.

• Gless is married to Cagney & Lacey executive producer, Barney Rosenzweig

• The long-awaited “Cagney & Lacey” DVD set will launch in early 2007.

• Gless is currently in pre-production on “A Round Heeled Woman,” a one-woman stage play for London’s West End, based on the best-selling book by Jane Juska, about a 60+ year-old woman’s adventures in later-life sex and romance. Sharon will also produce – she holds the rights …

• She travels the country frequently performing radio plays (with other prominent stars) for L.A. Theater Works.

Beginning with her starring role in "Faraday & Company" in 1973, Sharon Gless has brought her own brand of humor, intelligence and dramatic flair to each of her roles. She is best known for her portrayal of New York Police Detective Christine Cagney on the hit series "Cagney & Lacey," a role that garnered her two Emmys, a Golden Globe, and six Emmy nominations. Following "Cagney & Lacey," Gless re-teamed with the show's executive producer, Barney Rosenzweig, on "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill," for which she was awarded her second Golden Globe and two more Emmy nominations. Gless married Rosenzweig in 1991.

In 1994 and 1995, Gless and her television partner, Tyne Daly, joined together to recreate their title roles in a quartet of critically acclaimed and popular "Cagney & Lacey" television movies, which they fondly call "The Menopause Years." Other television series in which she starred include "Switch," "House Calls," and the short-lived but critically lauded Steven Bochco half-hour, "Turnabout." Gless has received much acclaim for her dramatic roles in such television movies as "Separated By Murder," "Hard Hat and Legs," "Honor Thy Mother," "Hobson's Choice" and "Letting Go," among others, as well as the mini-series "The Immigrants," "The Last Convertible," "Centennial," and Garson Kanin's "Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara Wars," in which she played screen goddess Carole Lombard.

Gless joined the cast of the groundbreaking Showtime series “Queer as Folk” at the outset, starring as Debbie Novotny, the extremely outspoken mother of Hal Sparks’ character, Mikey. Wherever she goes, Gless is regularly approached by fans wishing to express their appreciation for her honest portrayal of a loving parent of a gay child.

Gless' theatrical film credits include a featured role in the suspenseful and thought-provoking film, "The Star Chamber," which also starred Michael Douglas. She has recorded several 'Books on Tape' and starred in numerous radio plays, one of which, "'Night, Mother," for the BBC, earned Gless the International Sony Award. She has starred twice on stage in London's famed West End, the first time in 1993 with Bill Paterson, when she created the role of Annie Wilkes in the stage version of Stephen King's "Misery" at the Criterion Theater, and four years later, opposite Tom Conti, in Neil Simon's "Chapter 2," at the Gielgud Theater.

She starred at Chicago's Tony Award-winning playhouse, The Victory Gardens Theater, in Claudia Allen's "Cahoots," and at Madison Square Garden with the National Company of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues." Gless made her stage debut in Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine" at Stage West in Springfield, Mass.

Gless is an active participant in the ongoing struggle for a woman’s right to choose, and recently joined hundreds of thousands of women in Washington DC for the first-ever “March For Women’s Lives,” where she stood in solidarity with her entertainment industry colleagues. In 2005, she was honored by Norman Lear’s PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY for her unwavering support of human rights and justice.

BARNEY ROSENZWEIG

Began his show business career as an MGM office boy in 1959, and rose to become one of television's most honored producers, winning two EMMYS for Best television Series (CAGNEY & LACEY), and a GOLDEN GLOBE for Best Mini-series (John Steinbeck’s EAST OF EDEN). He is the recipient of citations from the Congress of the United States, the State of California, the Cities of Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, multiple women's groups throughout the country, and, from The University of Southern California, where he now serves on the prestigious Board of Councilors of the School of Cinema/Television.

In 1981, with CAGNEY & LACEY, he initiated the current trend for placing offices and production facilities in warehouses situated throughout the LA basin, rejecting conventional studio facilities and their built-in high overhead.Then, with THE TRIALS OF ROSIE O'NEILL, Rosenzweig went the additional step and provided his own deficit financing, eliminating any middleman between his unit and the network.

Rosenzweig has produced hundreds of hours of prime time television beyond the aforementioned multiple award-winning series and mini-series, including the successful pilot of AMERICAN DREAM, a dozen episodes of the premiere season of CHARLIE'S ANGELS, the DANIEL BOONE series for NBC (three seasons), multiple pilots and movies for television, and the critically acclaimed, and award-winning hour family dramas, CHRISTY for CBS and TWICE IN A LIFETIME for the Pax Network. He most recently took a chance on Broadway, co-producing the audience-pleasing Elvis Presley homage, ALL SHOOK UP, and now has ventured into the world of publishing with his memoir, CAGNEY & LACEY…AND ME

Other honors awarded Rosenzweig's work include the ACLU “Bill of Rights Award,” the Humanitas, Scott Newman and Christopher Awards, a special Luminas from Women in Film, as well as citations and salutes from the National Commission of Working Women, the Museum of Television & Radio, The National Organization of Women (NOW), the "Good Guy Award" from the National Women's Political Caucus and the "Award of Merit" from USC as one of the University's "outstanding alumni."

Rosenzweig received his degree in political science at USC (1959), where he has established a Women in Film Foundation Cagney & Lacey Scholarship. Other philanthropies include a two-year term in Los Angeles as Chairman of the Entertainment Division of the United Jewish Fund, and as Chairperson of the President's Council of the American Lung Association.

In 1991, Rosenzweig married his third wife, multi Emmy-award winning actress Sharon Gless. They reside on Fisher Island in Florida, where Rosenzweig, quoting Playwright Terrence McNally, says he “hasn’t retired, he’s stopped,” conceding the difference to be subtle. The producer goes on to note that his “best productions” are daughters Erika, Allyn and Torrie and the “spin-offs”, granddaughters Hailey, Greer and Zoey B.

TYNE DALY

Training: American Shakespeare Festival, Brandeis University, American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Regional: Jenny Kissed Me; She Loves Me; …Forum; Private Ear/Public Eye; Oliver; The Birthday Party; Three Sisters; Ashes (U.S. premiere); Gethsemane Springs; Come Back, Little Sheba (L.A. Drama-Logue Award). NY: The Butter and Egg Man (NY debut), Mystery School (OCC nomination), Gypsy (Tony, Drama Desk and OCC awards), The Seagull.David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize play, Rabbit Hole (Tony nomination). Film: John and Mary, Play It as It Lays, Zoot Suit, The Enforcer, The Simian Line. TV film includes “A Howling in the Woods,” “Larry,” “The Entertainer,” “Kids Like These,” “The Perfect Mother,” “Cagney & Lacey,” “Intimate Strangers” (Emmy nomination). TV includes “Cagney & Lacey” (four Emmy Awards), “Wings” (Emmy nomination), “Christy” (Emmy Award), “Judging Amy” (Emmy Award). Recordings: On the Town, Call Me Madam, Gypsy, The World According to Mr. Rogers (Grammy nomination), John Hersey’s Hiroshima.