Shelley Lee Long is an American actress and comedian. She is known for her role as Diane Chambers on the sitcom Cheers. Long has also starred in several films, including Night Shift, Irreconcilable Differences, The Money Pit, Outrageous Fortune and Dr. T & the Women.
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Shelley Lee Long is an American actress and comedian. She is known for her role as Diane Chambers on the sitcom Cheers. Long has also starred in several films, including Night Shift, Irreconcilable Differences, The Money Pit, Outrageous Fortune and Dr. T & the Women. In 2009, she began playing a recurring role as DeDe Pritchett on the ABC comedy series Modern Family. Long won the National Forensic League’s National Championship in Original Oratory in 1967. She also appeared in V05 Shampoo print advertisements, and in commercials for Homemakers Furniture and Camay Soap. She was offered the role of Mary, the mother in Steven Spielberg’s E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, but she declined because she had already signed on to appear in Night Shift. Long left Cheers after season five in 1987. In a 2003 interview with Graham Norton, Long said she left for a variety of reasons, the most important of which was her desire to spend more time with her toddler daughter.
She went to say that working on Cheers was a dream come true. It was one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. So, yes, I missed it, but I never regretted that decision. In a 2007 interview on Australian television, Long claimed Danson was a delight to work with. She talked of her love for co-star Nicholas Colasanto, who was her closest friends on the set. She said she didn’t want to keep doing the same episode over and over again and the same story over and again and become old and stale. In 1984, she was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe for her performance in Irre Concilable differences. She won two Golden Globe Awards for the role.
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