This attractive and engaging talent became a TV star as the Vietnam nurse Colleen McMurphy in the acclaimed ABC series "China Beach" (1988-91). Dana Delany is the granddaughter of the inventor of the Delany toilet-flush valve and was raised in upper-middle-class Stamford, Connecticut. After attending prep school, she graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in drama and headed to NYC where she soon found work in TV commercials and on daytime serials ("Love of Life” and "As the World Turns"). Her first real break, however, came when she was cast as the young version of Roy Dotrice's
