Ally McBeal

Allison Marie McBeal is the central fictional character in the Fox series Ally McBeal played by Calista Flockhart. Ally is a Boston-based lawyer. She is shown as a woman who constantly believes in love and is continually looking for her soul mate. She often hears songs in her head and experiences hallucinations, mostly of a dancing baby, due to her biological clock ticking and of sexual endeavors with various men. Biography Ally is the daughter of George McBeal (played by James Naughton), also a lawyer, and Jeannie McBeal (played by Jill Clayburgh). She claims to have at least one sister and one brother although neither are ever seen, not even in the occasional flashbacks. She had a sister who died at the age of six. Ally attended Harvard Law School to be with her childhood sweetheart Billy Thomas (played by Gil Bellows). Billy, however, left Harvard halfway to attend University of Michigan Law School, thereby breaking Ally's heart. The next thing revealed to the audience is that Ally lives with district attorney Renée Radick, and she is employed in an unnamed Boston law firm. Ally shortly resigns from that firm due to her boss sexually harassing her. Old classmate Richard Fish meets her on the street and then recruits her to join his newly-established law firm, Cage & Fish. To her surprise, she learns that Billy is also working at Cage & Fish. Ally is also shocked that Billy is married to lawyer and University of Michigan alumnus, Georgia. Ally falls in love with him again, to the horror of Georgia. Yet, Ally and Georgia rapidly become friends and learn how to collaborate with Billy.