Television
Besides his more high-profile starring roles in Lois & Clark and Mutant X, Shea's diverse television work includes guest-appearances on TV series Sex and the City, Law & Order, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent as well as being a recurring character on Gossip Girl.
Among other television films he was featured in Family Reunion (with Bette Davis), starred in Small Sacrifices (opposite Farrah Fawcett) which won a Peabody Award, in Kennedy (with Martin Sheen, in which he portrayed Robert F. Kennedy);Kennedy won the BAFTA Award. Other film work includes A Will of Their Own with Lea Thompson, Hitler's S.S. (opposite Bill Nighy) shot in England and Germany, Do You Know the Muffin Man? with Pam Dawber, the BBC comedy Coast to Coast (with Lenny Henry and Pete Postlethwaite, and the film adaptation of A.R Gurney's playThe Dining Room for Great Performances. Shea received a Prime Time Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his role in the mini-series Baby M opposite JoBeth Williams.
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—Clive James (b. 1939)
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