Anecdotes

A female fan was sentenced to six years for breaking into her home with a rifle in 1990.

By 1982, she was the last remaining performer to be working under a standard studio contract, having been signed to a 10-year contract in 1974.

Her grandfather, Neil S. McCarthy was an entertainment lawyer whose clients included Paramount Pictures, Howard Hughes, Louis B. Mayer (personally), and Cecil B. DeMille.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television in a double ceremony with Tyne Daly.

Gless, who was best known for her role as Chris Cagney on the police series Cagney et Lacey (1981), married the producer of the series, Barney Rosenzweig, in 1991. A year earlier, Rosenzweig had divorced his wife of 11 years, Barbara Corday, who was the creator/writer of Cagney et Lacey (1981).

Gless performed to positive reviews on the London stage in "Misery", a 1992 stage version of the horror film, playing Kathy Bates' role, and in 1996, starred with Tom Conti in Neil Simon's "Chapter Two".

Aunt of Bridget Gless.

Her father was a wealthy businessman who had a street named after him in Los Angeles.

She lives alone in a mountain cabin.