Sharon Gless a Golden Globe in 1986 and Emmys in 1986 and 1987 for "Cagney & Lacey", and a second Golden Globe in 1991 for "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill". Gless received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995. A fifth-generation Californian, Sharon Gless was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Marjorie (McCarthy) and sportswear manufacturing executive Dennis J. Gless. She was raised Roman Catholic. She has two brothers, Michael and Aric; and her parents divorced when she was in her teens. Her maternal grandfather was Neil McCarthy, a prominent Los Angeles attorney for Howard Hughes, who also
Sharon Gless 2018 episode. Gless served on the advisory board of the Los Angeles Student Film Institute. Gless's most recent stage appearance was as Jane Juska in "", Jane Prowse's stage adaptation of Jane Juska's book "A Round-Heeled Woman: my Late-life Adventures in Sex and Romance". The first production ran in San Francisco in early 2010. Sharon starred in a new production in Miami, December 2010 - February 2011, directed by Jane Prowse. A production took place in London, transferring in November 2011 from Riverside Studios to the Aldwych Theatre, where the run closed on 14 January 2012. Gless made her stage