Tony Winner Deanna Dunagan to Guest Star on ABC's PRIVATE PRACTICE

Tony Award winner Deanna Dunagan will guest star on the November 20th episode of the ABC drama PRIVATE PRACTICE. In the episode, titled “Apron Strings” Addison is challenged when Henry’s biological mother reappears and asks to be more involved in her young son’s life. Meanwhile she reconnects with her mentor, who shares a very painful secret. PRIVATE PRACTICE airs 10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

Dunagan made her Broadway debut in the 1979 production of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman at Circle in the Square as an understudy for Ann Sachs. In 1981, she performed in the first national tour of Children of a Lesser God. She has performed in more than 30 theaters in the Chicago area. Her work on the Chicago stage has garnered her three Joseph Jefferson Awards and three After Dark Awards.

Her film work includes The Naked Face, Running Scared, Men Don't Leave, Losing Isaiah, and Dimension and has also appeared in more than ten made for television movies, in the TV mini-series A Will of Their Own and Amerika, and as a guest star on the television shows Prison Break, What About Joan, and Missing Persons.

In 2007, Dunagan returned to Broadway in the Steppenwolf Theatre's transplant production of Tracy Letts' August: Osage County. For her performance, Dunagan won a Tony Award, Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award.

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