Delta Burke

Acting

Delta Burke

Born 1956-07-30 · Orlando, Florida, USA

Delta Burke McRaney (born July 30, 1956) is an American actress, producer and author. She is known for her role as Suzanne Sugarbaker in the CBS sitcom Designing Women (1986 - 1991), for which she received two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Burke's other television credits include Filthy Rich (1982–83), Delta (1992–93), Women of the House (1995), DAG (2000–01), and Boston Legal (2006-07). She appeared in the films Sordid Lives (2000), What Women Want (2000), Good Boy! (2003), and has produced and starred in several TV movies. On stage, Burke has also starred in the Broadway productions of Thoroughly Modern Millie (2003) and Steel Magnolias (2005). She has been married to actor Gerald McRaney since 1989.

Acting credits

What Women Want poster
6.5

Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.

What Women Want

2000

Good Boy! poster
5.6

An intergalactic dog pilot from Sirius (the dog star), visits Earth to verify the rumors that dogs have failed to take over the planet.

Good Boy!

2003

Rooster poster
4.5

A physically small police psychologist and a physically large insurance detective team up on an arson case.

Rooster

1982

Hansel & Gretel poster
5.5

Hansel and Gretel is a 2002 film adaptation of the Brothers Grimm children's story. It stars Jacob Smith and Taylor Momsen as the eponymous characters. It includes the Sandman, played by Howie Mandel and Sinbad as a raven.

Hansel & Gretel

2002

Melanie Darrow poster
9.0

A flamboyant female defense attorney takes on a seemingly airtight case, defending an apparently gold-digging husband against the charge of murdering his older, wealthy wife.

Melanie Darrow

1997

Zuma Beach poster
5.3

A fading rock singer goes to the beach to get away from it all and winds up getting involved in the lives of the teenage beachgoers.

Zuma Beach

1978

The Year Without a Santa Claus poster
5.8

Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man helps him rediscover the meaning of the holidays.

The Year Without a Santa Claus

2006

Sordid Lives poster
6.5

As three generations of a family in a small Texas town gather for a funeral, we learn the hilarious, sad, trashy truth of their sordid lives.

Sordid Lives

2000

Murder Me, Murder You poster
7.3

Private eye Mike Hammer probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.

Murder Me, Murder You

1983

A Bunny's Tale poster
5.3

A dramatization of Gloria Steinem's undercover investigation of the working conditions Bunnies faced at the Playboy Clubs.

A Bunny's Tale

1985

A Promise to Carolyn poster
7.1

When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth.

A Promise to Carolyn

1996

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!? poster
4.6

A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

1988

Bridal Fever poster
5.2

It’s a race to the altar when a steamy romance novelist with a long line of torrid romances – and ex-husbands – sets out to help a single woman ditch her bridesmaid dresses once and for all.

Bridal Fever

2008

Maternal Instincts poster
5.2

A pregnant doctor's life is made hell by the deranged patient to whom she gave a hysterectomy, without the patient's consent.

Maternal Instincts

1996

Going for Broke poster
5.8

With the innocent dropping of a few coins into a video poker machine, Laura Bancroft's world is about to change forever. Inspired by true events, Going for Broke is the compelling, hard-hitting story of one woman's overwhelming addiction to gambling.

Going for Broke

2003

Dangerous Child poster
5.6

A divorced mother faces the bitter irony of being suspected of child abuse when in fact her own teen son is taking verbal and physical swipes at her.

Dangerous Child

2001

Day-O poster
5.0

A five-year-old named Grace creates an imaginary friend, because her parents only pay attention to the new baby, Tony. Now at 35, his sole friend reappears to help her.

Day-O

1992

The Designing Women Reunion poster
NR

This five principal original cast members (plus a handful of recurring guests) from the popular sitcom Designing Women (1986) reunite for the first time since 1991 to reminisce and discuss the show.

The Designing Women Reunion

2003

Simon & Simon: In Trouble Again poster
8.0

En route to delivering an expensive yacht, Rick stops off in Seattle to visit A.J., who works there as an attorney. However, their reunion is disrupted and their investigative skills called into service when the yacht is hijacked--with mom on board.

Simon & Simon: In Trouble Again

1995

Charleston poster
8.0

Stella Farrell is a southern belle in 1860's Charleston, South Carolina who is determined to hang onto her aristocratic family's mansion following the Civil War.

Charleston

1979

A Last Cry for Help poster
10.0

Sharon appears to be a normal 17-year-old girl with good grades, many friends, and a wonderful personality - hardly someone you think would be considering suicide. But her home life is constrained by the pressures and expectations of her parents. She slowly spirals downward, her mother at one point telling her that she has no business being unhappy. So, she gulps down a bottle of sleeping pills. She is saved, but for how long?

A Last Cry for Help

1979

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8.0

A private investigator and her husband, who is a doctor, investigate rumors of a dead woman who was brought back to life by a voodoo spell.

Love and Curses... and All That Jazz

1991

Behind the camera