Sharon Gless Net Worth

What is Sharon Gless's net worth?

Sharon Gless is an American actress who has a net worth of $5 million. Sharon Gless is known for her roles on such television series as "Switch," "Cagney & Lacey," "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill," "Queer as Folk," and "Burn Notice." For her role as NYPD Sergeant Christine Cagney on "Cagney & Lacey," she won two Emmy Awards. Gless has also acted in films, including "The Star Chamber" and "Hannah Free," and on stage, in plays such as "Misery," "Chapter Two," and "A Round-Heeled Woman."

Early Life

Sharon Gless was born on May 31, 1943 in Los Angeles, California to Marjorie and Dennis. She has two brothers named Michael and Aric. When Gless was a teenager, her parents divorced. Aspiring to become an actress from an early age, she studied drama under acting coach Estelle Harman.

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Television Career

Gless began appearing on television in 1972. That year, she had guest roles on "Ironside," "The Sixth Sense," "McCloud," and "Emergency!" Her first substantial role came a couple of years later on the medical drama series "Marcus Welby, M.D.," on which she played the recurring character Kathleen Faverty from 1974 until the show's conclusion in 1976. During that time, Gless also appeared on such shows as "Faraday & Company," "Adam-12," and "The Rockford Files." She had her first main role on television from 1975 to 1978, playing receptionist Maggie Philbin on the CBS detective series "Switch." In the latter year, Gless appeared in the television film "Crash" and the miniseries "The Immigrants." She was in another miniseries, "Centennial," in 1979. Also that year, Gless starred opposite John Schuck on the short-lived NBC sitcom "Turnabout." She went on to star in a string of television films in the early 1980s, including "Hardhat and Legs," "The Scarlett O'Hara War," "Revenge of the Stepford Wives," and "The Miracle of Kathy Miller." Gless also starred in the third and final season of the CBS sitcom "House Calls."

Gless began her most famous role in 1982, as NYPD Sergeant Christine Cagney on the CBS police procedural drama series "Cagney & Lacey." She replaced Meg Foster, who had played the role for the show's first six episodes. The other title role, Detective Mary Beth Lacey, was played by Tyne Daly. "Cagney & Lacey" was hugely popular, running for seven seasons through 1988 and earning Gless two consecutive Emmy Awards. She and Daly later reprised their roles in four "Cagney & Lacey" television films in the 1990s. Before that, Gless starred as the titular LA lawyer on the CBS series "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill," which ran for two seasons from 1990 to 1992. In the latter half of the decade, she had a guest role on "Promised Land." Gless had her next main role from 2000 to 2005, playing Debbie Novotny, the mother of Hal Sparks's main character Michael, on the Showtime series "Queer as Folk."

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In 2006, Gless played fictional US secretary of defense Lynne Warner in the six-part British series "The State Within." After that, from 2007 to 2013, she played the mother of Jeffrey Donovan's protagonist Michael Westen on the espionage series "Burn Notice." Her role earned her an Emmy Award nomination. Gless received another Emmy nomination for her four-episode guest role as Colleen Rose on "Nip/Tuck," a character she played from 2008 to 2009. She later appeared in episodes of such shows as "Rizzoli & Isles," "The Exorcist," and "The Gifted." From 2017 to 2020, Gless played surgeon Zsa Zsa Harper-Jenkinson in four episodes of the long-running British medical drama "Casualty." She went on to appear in a 2023 episode of the ABC series "Station 19," a spinoff of "Grey's Anatomy."

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Film Career

Gless made her feature film debut in the 1972 thriller "Bonnie's Kids." A decade later, she appeared in the thriller "The Star Chamber." Gless later narrated the Academy Award-nominated 1996 documentary film "Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life." She had her first leading role on the big screen in 2009, starring as the titular character in the lesbian romance "Hannah Free," an adaptation of Claudia Allen's play of the same name. Among Gless's other film credits is the 2023 action thriller "Fast Charlie."

Theater Career

Gless had her first major role on stage from 1992 to 1993, originating the lead role of Annie Wilkes in the stage adaptation of Stephen King's novel "Misery." In the original West End production, she starred opposite Bill Paterson. Gless returned to the West End in 1996 to star opposite Tom Conti in a production of Neil Simon's "Chapter Two." In the United States, Gless has starred in such productions as "Cahoots," "The Vagina Monologues," and "A Round-Heeled Woman: the play." She also appeared in the latter in London.

Personal Life

Gless has been married to television producer Barney Rosenzweig since 1991. He served as a producer on her shows "Cagney & Lacey" and "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill."

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