Shelley Long

Shelley Long born August 23 1949 is an American actress singer and comedian For her role as Diane Chambers on the hit sitcom Cheers she received five Emmy nominations winning in 1983 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series She also won two Golden Globe Awards for the role She reprised her role as Diane Chambers in three episodes of the spinoff Frasier for which she received an additional guest star Emmy nomination She has starred in several films including Night Shift 1982 Irreconcilable Differences 1984 The Money Pit 1986 Outrageous Fortune 1987 Hello Again 1987 Troop Beverly Hills 1989 The Brady Bunch Movie 1995 A Very Brady Sequel 1996 and Dr T the Women 2000 While working on Cheers she continued to appear in motion pictures In 1984 she was nominated for a Best Leading Actress Golden Globe for her performance in Irreconcilable Differences She also starred in the comedies The Money Pit and Outrageous Fortune She was offered lead roles in Working Girl Jumpin Jack Flash and My Stepmother Is an Alien but did not accept them She was also offered the role of Mary the mother in Steven Spielbergs ET the ExtraTerrestrial but turned it down because she had already signed on to appear in Night Shift She left the series Cheers in 1987 but returned for the 200th Anniversary Special in 1990 She then returned as Diane in the last season 19921993 for which she picked up another Emmy nomination She later reprise her role as Diane in several episodes of the Kelsey Grammer spinoff series Frasier for which she was nominated for another Emmy Award She appeared as Carol Brady in the 1995 hit film The Brady Bunch Movie which is a campy take of the popular television show In 1996 she reprised the role in A Very Brady Sequel which had modest success and again in the 2002 television film sequelThe Brady Bunch in the White House She had a recurring role on the popular ABC sitcom Modern Family as DeDe Pritchett the exwife of Jay Pritchett