


In that sense, the show is a “how done it” as much as a “who done it,” a procedural with heart, the anti-“CSI.” Her character will butt heads with the Philadelphia police department. You can see how somebody lived their life, and how they died. “And our show is correct: The body is the proof. I love her, shes adorable and with her new film Money Monster coming out, I thought it was the perfect time. “That was such a gift to see everything and know how it works,” she says. For Throwback Thurs, I had to do Jodie Foster. “And then I read his name on the chart and no, I didn’t know him.” Delany says that after that, she thoroughly enjoyed the autopsy. He looked a lot like somebody I had dated.”ĭelany, who most recently starred on “Desperate Housewives,” pauses, relieved. Thin, with a kind of receding salt and pepper hair, bright blue eyes. “He was lying there naked, eyes wide open, bright blue,” she says. But before any of that could happen, Delany glanced at the corpse and for one, horrifying second, thought it was was an ex-boyfriend. She flew to Sacramento and watched, transfixed, as a doctor prepared to perform the autopsy. Can I have your autograph?’”ĭelany had her injuries attended to and got on a plane.
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“Then the bus driver said, ‘I recognize you. Delany suffered two broken fingers and a concussion that makes her sometimes “lose words.” To literally add insult to injury, the bus driver came over to her car, which wrapped around her, and said, ‘Didn’t you see me coming?’” Delany shakes her head, remembering. Since her character will be spending a considerable amount of screen time hovering over dead bodies, Delany, 55, made plans with the show’s medical advisor to fly from her home in Los Angeles to Sacramento to watch her first autopsy.īut the day before the trip, the actress was in Santa Monica, trying to turn left on a yellow light, when her own car was broadsided by a bus. Megan Hunt, a Philadelphia neurosurgeon whose devastating car crash damages her hands, forcing her to give up her specialty and become a municipal medical examiner.

‘It was just freaky.” That’s how Dana Delany describes the unnerving introduction to her new role on the ABC procedural, “Body of Proof.” Like any good actress, Delany wanted to research the part of Dr. Delany won two Emmys on “China Beach.” (ABC)
