Megan Hunt
Played by Dana Delany
Megan Hunt
Played by Dana Delany
OCCUPATION:Medical Examiner
Neurosurgeon (former)
Character Bio
Brilliant yet abrasive, determined yet inaccessible, DR. MEGAN HUNT is many things. Easily understood is not one of them. Once a high flying neurosurgeon, a car accident ended her career. Bowed but not broken, she reinvented herself as a medical examiner.Now she uses her vast medical knowledge and investigative instincts to solve the medical mysteries of the dead and bring those responsible for their deaths to justice. If only she were as successful in her personal life. A bitter divorce ended with Megan's ex-husband gaining sole custody of their daughter. Since then, Megan's daughter has discovered a new admiration for her mother's skill and dedication as a medical examiner, but the gap between them remains. As an advocate for the dead Megan is unequaled; as a mother she has a lot to learn, but learn she must if she wants to win back her daughter's love and forgiveness.
Actor Bio
Dana Delany made her mark as Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on ABC's critically-acclaimed series "China Beach," for which she received two Emmy Awards and four nominations for Best Dramatic Actress.
Following graduation from Wesleyan University, Delany, a Stamford, Connecticut native, went to New York, where she honed her skills in daytime television and theatre. She starred on Broadway in "A Life" and received critical acclaim in a number of off-Broadway productions, including Nicholas Kazan's "Blood Moon," which led to her arrival in Los Angeles for the west coast production of the controversial drama. Opting to stay in Los Angeles after the run of the play, Delany was soon cast in popular television shows, including "Moonlighting" and "Magnum, P.I."
Film credits include "Tombstone," "Housesitter," "Fly Away Home," "Exit to Eden," "Light Sleeper," "Moon Over Parador," "Masquerade," "Patty Hearst," "Where the River Runs Black," "Almost You," "Route 30," "A Beautiful Life," "Multiple Sarcasms" and "Camp Hope." Delany recently completed production on the independent feature "Freelancers," starring Robert DeNiro, Forest Whitaker and Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson.
For three seasons Delany portrayed Katherine Mayfair on the acclaimed ABC series "Desperate Housewives." Three seasons ago, she was featured in a two-part episode arc on ABC's "Castle," where she portrayed Special Agent Jordan Shaw, an FBI profiler assigned to help catch a serial killer. Other television credits include "Presidio Med," "Pasadena" and "Kidnapped," opposite Timothy Hutton. Episodic work includes "Family Law," for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Television miniseries include "Shake, Rattle & Roll," "True Women" and "Wild Palms." Some of the movies for television in which Delany has starred include "Resurrection" and "The Patron Saint of Liars," both directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal; "For Hope," in which she played a woman suffering from Scleroderma, directed by Bob Saget; Lifetime's "Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story"; "Sirens"; "Rescuers: Stories of Courage and Conviction," with Omar Epps; and "The Right Temptation." Delany produced and starred in the ABC telefilm "Final Jeopardy," based on New York sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein's novel.
Theatre credits include "Translations," "Much Ado About Nothing," opposite Billy Campbell at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, and the Pulitzer prize-winning play "Dinner with Friends," alternating roles in New York, Los Angeles and Boston. Last year she appeared in Neil Labute's "Things We Said Today" at the EST marathon in New York.
Since 1996 Delany has provided voice-over work as Lois Lane on the WB's animated series "Superman," "The Batman/Superman Adventures," "Justice League" and, most recently, "Batman."
Since the mid-1990s, Delany has served on the board of the Scleroderma Research Foundation, and also actively supports the Stand Up 2 Cancer and NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundations. She can be followed on Twitter @DanaDelany.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
HOMETOWN Stamford, CT
BIRTHDATE March 13