Tyne Daly
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Daly at the 2009 premiere of PoliWood
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Ellen Tyne Daly February 21, 1946 Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1968–present |
| Spouse(s) | Georg Stanford Brown (m. 1966; div. 1990) |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | www |
Ellen Tyne Daly (born February 21, 1946) is an American stage and screen actress. She has won six Emmy Awards for her television work and a Tony Award, and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.
Daly began her career on stage in in New York, and made her Broadway debut in the play That Summer – That Fall in 1967. She is best known for her television role as Detective Mary Beth Lacey in Cagney & Lacey (1982–88), for which she is a four-time Emmy Award winner as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. In 1989, she starred in the Broadway revival of Gypsy and won the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Her other TV roles include Alice Henderson in Christy (1994–95), for which she won an Emmy in 1996 and Maxine Gray in Judging Amy (1999–2005), which won her a sixth Emmy in 2003. Her other Broadway credits include The Seagull (1992), her Tony-nominated role in Rabbit Hole (2006) and her Tony-nominated role in Mothers and Sons (2014). She played Maria Callas, both on Broadway and in London's West End, in the play Master Class (2011–12).
Daly was born in Madison, Wisconsin, to actor James Daly and his wife, Mary Hope (née Newell). Her younger brother is actor Tim Daly, and she has two sisters, Mary Glynn and Pegeen Michael.
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