Celebrity Nooz: Tyne Daly

Tyne Daly (Actress) - Cagney & Lacey

Updated: 3/17/11

Name: Tyne Daly

Born: February 21, 1946, Madison, Wisconsin

Claim To Fame: She is best known for playing Detective Lacey in the television series Cagney & Lacey.

Family Life: She was married to Georg Stanford Brown from 1966 to 1990. They have three daughters: Alisabeth (b. 1968); actress Kathryne (b. 1971); and Alyxandra (b. 1985).

Info: Daly began her career performing in summer stock with her family, and earned her Equity card when she was 15. Her first role was on Broadway in the 1967 play That Summer, That Fall. She appeared in the films John and Mary (1969), the movie adaptation of Play It As It Lays (1972), and The Adulteress. She played Inspector Harry Callahan's first female partner, Kate Moore, in the 1976 Dirty Harry film The Enforcer.

She found fame with her role in the legendary CBS cop drama Cagney & Lacey winning four Emmy Awards for her performance as Mary Beth Lacey, the married working mother. Between herself and co-star Sharon Gless, they took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for six straight years in a row. She later appeared as social worker Maxine Gray on the CBS drama Judging Amy, which ran from 1999 to 2005.

Daly has also had an extensive career on stage, starring as Rose in a 14 city U.S. tour of the musical Gypsy which finally landed on Broadway in late 1989.She appeared in the Broadway revival of the play The Seagull in 1992 as Madame Arkadina, and as Sally Adams in the City Center Encores! staged concert of Call Me Madam in February 1995.

Trivia: Her younger brother is actor Timothy Daly.

Is the daughter of actor James Daly.

Her sister-in-law, Amy Van Nostrand, is also an actress.

Has won six Emmy Awards for her television work, and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical in Gypsy: A Musical Fable in 1989.

Recently spoke at the March for Women's Lives Rally in Washington, D.C.

Graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City.

Where Are They Now: Daly appeared in the 2006 Broadway production of the play Rabbit Hole. In 2008, she played the role of Mother in the world premiere production of the Edward Albee play Me, Myself & I at the McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey. In January 2010, she performed a cabaret act called Second Time Around at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, New York City.

According to an article on BroadwayWorld.com, she was recently added to the lineup for the 27th Annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event which will take place on April 2. This year's show is entitled ORIGINAL CAST 2.

Write To Tyne Daly:
Tyne Daly
c/o Hartig Hilepo Agency
156 Fifth Ave., Suite 1018
New York, NY 10010

Videos: Cagney & Lacey - Breaking The Law of Television http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=7910 Cagney And Lacey - Victor Isbecki http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=7920

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