Shelley Long | Cheers

Shelley Lee Long was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on August 23, 1949. Her parents are Ivadine and Leland Long. She went to Northwestern University to earn a degree in drama after graduating from South Side High School in Fort Wayne but quit before graduating to pursue a career in acting and modeling. When she started doing advertisements in the Chicago area, she got her first break as an actress.

Long rose to fame as Diane Chambers in the long-running TV sitcom Cheers, where she had a tempestuous on-again, off-again romance with Sam Malone. She then appeared in TV shows such as Holiday Engagement and Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door. She also made a guest appearance on Switched at Birth in 2012.  Aside from acting, she also produces, working on the feature film Different Flowers in 2016, which she also starred in.