“I moved to New York when I was 22 and I was on Broadway when I was 23. Upon graduating from Wesleyan University, she went straight to New York to act, and it didn’t take long for her to become a success. “And I remember we were going into New York to go school shopping or something, and I was learning the lines in the car because the play was two days later and realized: I can do this! I can do this! This is fun!” “They asked me because I had short hair and I kind of looked like a boy,” she says. There, she was plucked out of the chorus line for a fourth-grade production of “Aladdin and his Lamp” to take the starring role when the boy doing it dropped out. “I’ve been acting since Roxbury Elementary School.” But they returned it into a legitimate theater and I did this out of town tryout of ‘Rocket to the Moon’ with Anthony Franciosa.”Īcting was something she always did growing up in Stamford, though. “When I grew up it was a movie house,” she says of the Hartman. She was quite manipulative and evil, and it was really fun to play,” Delany says.ĭelany says she still likes doing theater (“It keeps you sharp”), but the last play she did in Connecticut was decades ago, at the old Hartman Theatre in Stamford. “The character I played, the Parisian woman, is sort of a combination of Francis Underwood and his wife. “So I have a French tutor now, and I have a French agent, and I hope to do more work there.”Ĭoincidentally, the last play she was in, at South Coast Repertory in California, was titled “The Parisian Woman,” written by Beau Willimon before he created “House of Cards.” The six-episode miniseries, which co-stars Coben as her husband, “spurred me on now to want to work in France more, which has always been my dream,” Delany says. “He knew that I wanted to work in France, so he said, ‘why don’t you come over here and do it?'” “I actually went to high school with his brother,” she says. And the French just have great reverence for writers.”Īnd Delany knows Coben from way back. He wrote a book called ‘Tell No One Knows,’ made into a French movie, and it was a huge hit over there, so it just raised his status. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of those things also happens this fall - a French miniseries, “Une Chance de Trop,” based on Harlan Coben’s novel “No Second Chance.”Ĭoben, she says, “is just a god in France. The writers can concentrate on the story line, and the actors get to have a life and do other things.” “It’s pretty much the same thing except that you only do 10 episodes, which is, I think, really smart,” she says. Being on a streaming online service rather than network TV, where’s she’s starred in shows like “China Beach,” “Body of Proof” to “Desperate Housewives,” wasn’t a very different process for Delany.
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