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Born in Fort Wayne; Diane Chambers on Cheers, five Emmy nominations and one win for the role, and a film career alongside it. Raised here; attended South Side High School.
Shelley Lee Long was born 23 August 1949 in the Indian Village neighborhood of Fort Wayne, the only child of two teachers. She attended Kekionga Junior High and South Side High School, where she competed on the speech team, then studied drama at Northwestern University before leaving to act and model. Her fame arrived in 1982 as Diane Chambers, the erudite waitress of the NBC sitcom Cheers: five Emmy nominations and the 1983 Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, plus two Golden Globe Awards. She left the series after its fifth season, in 1987. Her film work runs from Night Shift (1982) through Irreconcilable Differences (1984), The Money Pit (1986), and Outrageous Fortune (1987) to her turn as Carol Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie (1995).
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