Sharon Gless installment, by Loretta Swit. Swit, like Foster, was chosen as Cagney because, though the character of Cagney had been created with Gless herself in mind, she was unavailable for the pilot or the first seven installments of the first season.) In 1991, she married the series' executive producer, Barney Rosenzweig, who speaks in his book "Cagney & Lacey...and Me" about wanting Sharon Gless from the beginning and Gless being unavailable due to her contract with Universal. Rosenzweig created the 1990–1992 CBS drama series "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill" for Gless and, uncredited, played the only partially seen psychiatrist to whom
Tyne Daly 1989, she starred in the Broadway revival of "Gypsy" and won the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Her other TV roles include Alice Henderson in "Christy" (1994–95), for which she won an Emmy in 1996 and Maxine Gray in "Judging Amy" (1999–2005), which won her a sixth Emmy in 2003. Her other Broadway credits include "The Seagull" (1992), her Tony-nominated role in "Rabbit Hole" (2006) and her Tony-nominated role in "Mothers and Sons" (2014). She played Maria Callas, both on Broadway and in London's West End, in the play "Master Class" (2011–12). She also plays Anne