17/ 11/ 2009 Mexico City.

It feels like it's finally Dana Delany's time. The actress had several near brushes with TV superstardom after her Emmy-winning run as Nurse Colleen McMurphy on "China Beach" ended.

Mike White, who wrote the hit "School of Rock," cast her as the uptight matriarch on Fox's critically beloved but short-lived dysfunctional family drama "Pasadena," Darren Star originally asked her to star in "Sex and the City" and Marc Cherry first offered her the role of Bree on "Desperate Housewives."