- 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 & 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 & 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".
- She lives alone in a mountain cabin.
- Aunt of Bridget Gless.
- Her father was a wealthy businessman who had a street named after him in Los Angeles.
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