Ally McBeal (Character)
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Ally Marie McBeal is the central character in the Fox Television show Ally McBeal.
Ally is a Boston-based lawyer. She is shown as a woman who believes in love and is continually looking for her soul mate. She often hears songs in her head and suffers from hallucinations.
Biography
Ally is the daughter of George McBeal (played by James Naughton) and Jeannie McBeal (played by Jill Clayburgh). She claims to have at least one sister although this sister is never seen (not even in the occasional flashbacks).
Ally attended Harvard Law School with Billy Thomas (played by Gil Bellows), with whom she had had a relationship since they were eight years old. Billy, however, left Harvard to go to another law school, thereby breaking Ally's heart. The next thing we know about Ally is that she lives with district attorney Renee Radick, and she is employed in a Boston law firm.
Ally quit the law firm because her boss harrased her and was then recruited by old classmate Richard Fish to join his law firm, Cage & Fish. To her own surprise she found out that Billy, now married to fellow lawyer Georgia, also worked at Cage & Fish. She immediatly fell in love with him again, to the horror of Georgia. However, Ally and Georgia became friends and Ally learned to work side by side with Billy.
Throughout the series Ally dated lots of men. Due to the fact that Billy remained the love of her life, no relationship ever got serious until she met Dr. Greg Butters (played by Jesse L. Martin). Greg and Ally got quite serious until the two were spotted kissing by Billy. Billy felt so jealous that he imagined himself to be in love with Ally after which he declared his undying love for Ally. The two subsequently engaged in a short affair, which Ally finally broke off. Nonetheless, Greg wanted nothing more to do with Ally after this.
Ally started dating again, finally meeting a British lawyer named Brian Selig (played by Tim Dutton). The two started dating and ended up havind a six-month relationship (untroubled by Billy, who had by now died of a brain tumor). When, after six months, Brian asked Ally to move in with him, Ally realised Brian was much to boring for her and then broke off the relationship.
Shortly after that, she fell in love with fellow lawyer Larry Paul. The two started a serious but rocky relationship. Troubled by the fact that Larry had an ex-wife with whom he was still close, an ex-girlfriend (played by Famke Janssen) who was also the mother of his child and the fact that Ally did not trust Larry, the relationship ended after a few months (initially Ally was supposed to get married to Larry at the end of season 4 but when actor Robert Downey Jr. was arrested on drug-related charges and sent to jail, the network fired Downey, therby cancelling the marriage storyline).
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