Tyne Daly

Infobox actor


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caption = Tyne Daly at the 39th Annual Emmy Awards on September 20, 1987
name = Tyne Daly
birthdate = birth date and age|1946|2|21
birthplace = Madison, Wisconsin, USA
spouse = Georg Stanford Brown (1966-1990)
birthname = Ellen Tyne Daly
website = http://www.cagneyandlacey.com/
emmyawards = Lead Actress - Drama Series
1983 "Cagney & Lacey"
1984 "Cagney & Lacey"
1985 Cagney & Lacey
1988 Cagney & Lacey
Supporting Actress - Drama Series
1996 "Christy"
2003 "Judging Amy"
tonyawards = Best Actress in a Musical
1990 ""
awards = Hollywood Walk of Fame
7065 Hollywood Boulevard

Ellen Tyne Daly (b. February 21, 1946) is an American Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress.

Biography

Daly was born in Madison, Wisconsin into a creative family; she is the daughter of actor James Daly. Her younger brother is actor Timothy Daly. She is also related to former game show host and newsman John Charles Daly. Her sister-in-law, Amy Van Nostrand, is also an actress.

She studied at Brandeis University and The American Musical and Dramatic Academy.

Daly was married to actor/director Georg Stanford Brown from 1966 to 1990. They have three daughters, Alisabeth, a potter, Alyxandra, and Kathryne Dora, who is an actress.

Career

Film

Daly's best known appearance in a feature film was as Inspector Harry Callahan's partner, Kate Moore, in the 1976 Dirty Harry film "The Enforcer". She also made appearances in "Play It As It Lays", "John and Mary", "The Adulteress", and "Speedtrap". She received top billing for 'The Adultress' released in 1973 in which she appeared topless and making 'love' to Eric Braeden while riding a horse.

Television

Daly is best known for her work in television.

In the 1970s, Daly began to appear frequently as a guest on episodic primetime shows including" Ironside", "McMillan and Wife", "The Mod Squad", "The Streets of San Francisco", and "Barnaby Jones". On several programs, including "Medical Center", "The Rookies", and "Quincy, M.E.", she appeared over the run of the programs several times as several different characters.

In 1981, Daly was cast as detective Mary Beth Lacey in the TV movie "Cagney and Lacey", opposite Loretta Swit as Christine Cagney. The following year, CBS developed a series based on the movie, and actress Meg Foster was cast as Cagney. After a few episodes, CBS decided to let Foster go because of her resemblance to Daly, and Sharon Gless was cast. Daly is perhaps best known for her appearance in this show, which ran for seven seasons.

After the series ended, Daly continued to make additional appearances on prime-time programs, including a comedic turn on "The Nanny", an appearance on the Sharon Gless program "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill", and 4 reunion "Cagney and Lacey" movies between 1994 and 1996. Her next continuing role was on the CBS drama "Christy".

Most recently, she appeared as social worker Maxine Gray, who was also the mother to the show's title character Amy, on the CBS drama "Judging Amy", which ran from 1999 to 2005. Addressing a conference of the National Association of Social Workers in 2000, Daly said that she had learned from social workers and social work texts to improve her portrayal of her character. She added: "I take from you because you are the ones dealing with all the bad institutions of our society: institutionalized poverty, institutionalized racism, institutionalized cynicism." [Citation| title = Tyne Daly Wows 'Social Work 2000'| newspaper = NASW News | year = 2001| date = January 2001| url = http://www.socialworkers.org/pubs/news/2001/01/tyne.htm]

Theater roles

Daly has made several appearances on the Broadway stage. Her first appearance was in 1967, in a short-lived play, "That Summer, That Fall". She appeared in a revival of the Anton Chekhov play "The Seagull", and had a nearly two-year run in a 1989 revival of "Gypsy" playing Mama Rose. She most recently appeared in the 2006 play "Rabbit Hole", portraying the mother of the play's protagonist, played by Cynthia Nixon, and in 2008 as Mother in the world premiere production of the Edward Albee play Me, Myself & I.

Role model

Daly has been identified as a feminist role model, particularly based on her television roles in "Cagney and Lacey" and "Judging Amy". Her role as Lacey showed a woman detective at a time where the idea was still novel; the show was also novel in presenting Lacey primarily in a work environment, rather than always showing the character at home. She has also been outspoken about maintaining a natural appearance as she ages, and for the run of "Judging Amy", Daly's hair was shown in its naturally gray state. [ [http://www.westsidetoday.com/articles/2005/04/29/bel_air/news_highlights/01aaaaaaatynedaly.txt] ]

Awards and recognition

Daly has been nominated for the Emmy Award a total of 14 times; she won 6 times, for the following television performances:
* Lead Actress in a Drama Series for "Cagney and Lacey" in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1988
* Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for "Christy" in 1996
* Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for "Judging Amy" in 2003

She was also recognized for the following:
* She won the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Madame Rose in "".
* She was nominated for a 2006 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Rabbit Hole.
* Daly has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

References

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* [http://www.cagneyandlacey.com/ Cagney & Lacey official web site]