Birthday: August 23, 1949
Northwestern University drama student Shelley Long began picking up work in Chicago TV commercials in the mid-1970s. She went on to host the WMAQ-TV "magazine" program Sorting it Out, and honed her comic timing with the Second City troupe. While her actual film debut was in 1980's A Small Circle of Friends, Long prefers to list the 1981 spoof Caveman as her first film. After a ...more- 1984
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical o
- Cheers (TV Series)
- win
- 1984
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or C
- Irreconcilable Differences
- nom
- 1983
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical o
- Cheers (TV Series)
- nom
- 1982
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture
- Cheers (TV Series)
- win
- 2006
- Falling in Love With the Girl Next Door
- Betsy Lucas
- 2005
- Boston Legal: Death Be Not Proud
- Miriam Watson
- 2002
- The Brady Bunch in the White House
- Carol Brady
- 2002
- The Santa Trap
- Molly Emerson
- 2001
- Frasier: Don Juan in Hell, Part 1
- Diane Chambers








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