Tyne Daly Biography

Ellen Tyne Daly (born February 21, 1946) is an American stage and screen actress, widely known for her work as Detective Mary Beth Lacey in the television series Cagney & Lacey and as Maxine Gray in the television series Judging Amy. She is also known for her role as Alice Henderson in the television series Christy. She 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.

Early years

Daly was born Ellen Tyne Daly in Madison, Wisconsin, into a creative family; she is the daughter of actor James Daly and Mary Hope Newell. Her younger brother is actor Timothy Daly. She was raised in Westchester County, New York, where she started her career by performing in summer stock with her family; she earned her Equity Card at age 15. 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.

Career

Television

Daly portrayed one of the two title characters in the legendary CBS police-procedural crime 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 six years in a row, a winning streak unmatched in any major category by a show.

In 1991, Daly guest starred on her brother Tim's series Wings, playing a woman who dates Brian Hackett (Steven Weber), brother of Tim's character Joe.

She appeared as social worker Maxine Gray, who was also the mother to the show's title character 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 she had learned from social workers and social work texts to improve her portrayal of her character and 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."

Daly appeared in a made-for-TV movie for Lifetime in 2003 titled Undercover Christmas, as Anne Cunningham. She played the role of a traditional mother and peacemaker at Christmas time in a wealthy family of lawyers, who initially disapproves of her FBI agent son's girlfriend.

Theater

Daly's first Broadway role was in 1967 in a short-lived play, That Summer, That Fall. In April 1989, she starred as Rose in a 14 city U.S. tour of the musical Gypsy which finally landed on Broadway in late 1989. This production was the second revival of the show to play Broadway (the first was in 1974 with Angela Lansbury). Daly won the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in Gypsy. Daly left Gypsy in July 1990, with Linda Lavin playing Rose, and returned in April 1991 through closing in July 1991. Daly appeared in the Broadway revival of the Anton Chekhov play The Seagull in 1992 as Madame Arkadina. She appeared as Sally Adams in the City Center Encores! staged concert of Call Me Madam in February 1995. In regional theatre she played Lola in Come Back, Little Sheba at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, Los Angeles, California in April 1997. She appeared on Broadway in the 2006 play Rabbit Hole, portraying the mother of the play's protagonist, played by Cynthia Nixon. In January 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 2009, she appeared in the original cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore. In 2011, she starred as Maria Callas in Master Class at the Manhattan Theater Club on Broadway and created the role of Judy Steinberg in the new musical It Shoulda Been You by Brian Hargrove and Barbara Anselmi, and directed by David Hyde Pierce at George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from October 4 - November 6, 2011. In 2012, Daly reprised her role as Maria Callas in the West End Production of Master Class. Also in 2012, she performed at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA, in a Cabaret with Malcolm Gets.

Cabaret

Daly performed a cabaret act, Second Time Around, in January 2010 at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, New York City. She had previously performed at Feinstein's in May 2009.

Film

Daly appeared in John and Mary (1969), the movie adaptation of Play It As It Lays (1972), and The Adulteress. She was cast as Inspector Harry Callahan's first female partner, Kate Moore, in the 1976 Dirty Harry film The Enforcer. Although her performance was not widely praised, the concept was later used as the basis for the television show Hunter.

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.

Personal life

Daly was married to Georg Stanford Brown from 1966 to 1990. They have three daughters: Alisabeth (b. 1968), a potter; actress Kathryne (b. 1971); and Alyxandra (b. 1985).

Filmography

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Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969	John and Mary	Hilary
1970	Angel Unchained	Merilee
1971	In Search of America	Anne	Television film
1971	'	Sally Bixton	Television movie
1972	Play It As It Lays	Journalist
1972	Heat of Anger	Jean Carson	Television movie
1973	'	Inez Steiner
1973	'	Susie Datweiler	Television movie
1974	Larry	Nancy Hockworth	Television movie
1976	'	Kate Moore
1976	'	Jean	Television movie
1977	Speedtrap	Niffty Nolan
1977	Telefon	Dorothy Putterman
1977	Intimate Strangers	Karen Renshaw	Television movie Nominated"?Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
1979	Better Late Than Never	Ms. Davis	Television movie
1980	'	Adele	Television movie
1981	Zoot Suit	Alice Bloomfield
1981	'	Donna	Television movie
1983	Your Place... or Mine	Karen	Television movie
1985	'	Evelyn Stiller
1985	Movers & Shakers	Nancy Derman
1987	Kids Like These	Joanna Goodman	Television movie
1989	Stuck with Each Other	Sylvia Cass	Television movie
1991	'	Mary Ellen	Television movie
1991	Face of a Stranger	Dollie Madison	Television movie
1993	No Room for Opal	Glorene	Television movie
1993	Shattered Dreams	Kathryn Messenger	Television movie
1994	'	Dr. Archer	Television movie
1994	Cagney & Lacey: The Return	Mary Beth Lacey	Television movie
1994	Christy	Alice Henderson	Television movie
1995	Cagney & Lacey: Together Again	Mary Beth Lacey	Television movie
1995	Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling	Mary Beth Lacey	Television movie
1995	Bye Bye Birdie	Mae Peterson	Television movie
1996	Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions	Mary Beth Lacey	Television movie
1997	'	Elanie Podaras	Television movie
1997	Tricks	Sarah	Television movie
1997	'	Dr. Guttmacher
1998	Vig	Ellen	Television movie
1999	'	Ann
1999	Three Secrets	Shelley	Television movie
1999	Absence of the Good	Dr. Marcia Lyons	Television movie
1999	Execution of Justice	Goldie Judge	Television movie
2000	'	Arnita
2000	'	Aunt Aurelia
2001	'	Joan Delano	Television movie
2003	Undercover Christmas	Anne Cunningham	Television movie
2009	Georgia O'Keefe	Mabel Dodge Stern	Television movie
2013	Jacked Up	TBD	Television movie
2014	Basmati Blues	TBA

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1954	Foreign Intrigue	Girl	Episode: "International Finance"
1963	General Hospital	Caroline Beale	TV series
1968	'	Faith Bradbury	Episode: "The Orchard"
1969	Judd, for the Defense	Sandy	Episode: "The View from the Ivory Tower"
1969	CBS Playhouse	Sarah	Episode: "Sadbird"
1969	'	Dolores Abernathy	Episode: "The Death of Wild Bill Hannachek"
1970	'	Kathy	Episode: "On the Horizon"
1970	Ironside	Joanna Leigh	Episode: "The People Against Judge McIntire"
1970	Medical Center	Jennifer Lochner	Episode: "Moment of Decision"
1971	Longstreet	Marcella	Episode: "One in the Reality Column"
1971	McMillan & Wife	Janet Benton	Episode: "Husbands, Wives, and Killers"
1971	Mission: Impossible	Saretta Lane	Episode: "Nerves"
1972	Young Dr. Kildare		Episode: "The Thing with Feathers"
1972	'	Prudence Gordon	Episode: "Good Times Are Just Memories"
1972	Medical Center	Barbara	Episode: "The Choice"
1973	Medical Center	April	Episode: "Deadly Game"
1973	Ghost Story	Anna Freeman	Episode: "Earth, Air, Fire and Water"
1973	Hawkins	Ellen Hamilton	Episode: "A Life for a Life"
1973	'	Marly Devon	Episode: "A Farewell Tree from Marly"
1974	'	Lucille Baker	Episode: "Time Lock"
1974	'	Mrs. Carlino	Episode: "Commitment"
1974	Doc Elliot	Beth Ann Blackner	Episode: "The Touch of God"
1974	Barnaby Jones	Madge Winston	Episode: "A Gathering of Thieves"
1974	'	Laurie	Episode: "The Haunting of Penthouse D"
1975	Lucas Tanner	Jenny Milo	Episode: "Collision"
1975	'	Lucy	3 episodes
1975	Medical Center	Liz Lathem	Episode: "Gift from a Killer"
1975	'	Mary	Episode: "Cliffy"
1976	'	Amy Kennedy	Episode: "From Out the Darkness"
1977	Visions	Ann	Episode: "The Dancing Bear"
1978	Greatest Heroes of the Bible	Abishag	Episode: "The Judgment of Solomon"
1979	Shirley	Athena	Episode: "Twenty Years to Life"
1980	Quincy, M.E.	Madeline Estes	Episode: "The Night Killer"
1981	Quincy, M.E.	Kay Silver	Episode: "Gentle Into That Good Night"
1981	CBS Afternoon Playhouse	Catherine Ellis	Episode: "The Great Gilly Hopkins"
1981	Lou Grant	Melissa Cummings	Episode: "Violence"
1981-1988	Cagney & Lacey	Det. Mary Beth Lacey	126 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (1983-85, 1988) Nominated"?Golden Globe Award for Best Actress " Television Series Drama (1984-87) Nominated"?Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (1986-87)
1982	Magnum, P.I.	Kate Sullivan	Episode: "The Jororo Kill"
1982	Quincy, M.E.	Anna Krushevitz	Episode: "For Love of Joshua"
1983	'		Episode: "The Shooting"
1988	Dolly	Genevieve	Episode: "1.20"
1991	'	Vicki Lindman	Episode: "The Reunion"
1991	Wings	Mimsy Borogroves	Episode: "My Brother's Keeper" Nominated"?Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
1992	Swamp Thing	Carla Jeffries	Episode: "Lesser of Two Evils"
1992	'	Cora Gibbs	Episode: "Great Wide World Over There"
1992	Columbo	Dolores	Episode: "A Bird in the Hand..."
1994	Columbo	Dorothea McNally	Episode: "Undercover"
1994	'	Dr. Tennelli (voice)	Episode: "Inside Ralphie"
1994-1995	Christy	Alice Henderson	20 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Nominated"?Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress " Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated"?Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
1995	'	Mona	Episode: "Strange Bedfellows"
1995	'	Dr. Tennelli (voice)	Episode: "Going Batty"
1998	For Your Love	Mary Winston	Episode: "The Mother of All Visits"
1999	Veronica's Closet	Emily Blair	Episode: "Veronica's from Venus/Josh's Parents Are from Mars"
1999	'	Ma Nichols	Episode: "Vendetta"
1999-2005	Judging Amy	Maxine Gray	138 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Viewers for Quality Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Quality Drama Series Nominated"?Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (2000-02, 2004-05) Nominated"?Satellite Award for Best Actress " Television Series Drama Nominated"?Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series (2002, 2004)
2009	Grey's Anatomy	Carolyn Shepherd	Episode: "Sympathy for the Devil"
2010	Burn Notice	Tina	Episode: "A Dark Road"

Theatre work

Broadway

Year	Production	Playwright	Role	Notes and awards
1967	That Summer - That Fall			Broadway debut Performances: Helen Hayes Theatre
1989	Gypsy		Rose	Won - 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical Performances: Broadway and also US National tour, 1989
1992	The Seagull		Madame Arkadina
2006	Rabbit Hole		Nat	Performances: Biltmore Theatre Nominated - 2006 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
2011	Master Class	Terrence McNally	Maria Callas	Performances: Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (June 14, 2011 - September 4, 2011)

Off-Broadway

Year	Production	Playwright	Role	Notes and awards
2009	Love, Loss, and What I Wore	Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron		Performances: Westside Theatre, New York City, New York

Other stage credits

Year	Production	Playwright	Role	Notes and awards
1963	Jenny Kissed Me	Jean Kerr		Performances: Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, Pennsylvania
2008	Agamemnon	Aeschylus	Clytaemnestra	Performances: Getty Villa, Malibu, California
2010	The Second Time Around		Cabaret	Performances: Feinstein's at the Regency, New York City (January 2010)
	Master Class	Terrence McNally	Maria Callas	Performances: Kennedy Center (March 25, 2010 - April 18, 2010)
2011	It Shoulda Been You	Brian Hargrove, Barbara Anselmi	Mother of the Bride	Performances: George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey (October 6 - November 6, 2011)

Awards and recognition

Daly has been nominated for the Emmy Award a total of 17 times; she has 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 and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Rose in Gypsy.
• She was nominated for a 2006 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Rabbit Hole.
• Daly received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995.
• In 2002, she was awarded the Women in Film [[Women_in_Film_Crystal_+_Lucy_Awards#THE_LUCY_AWARD|Lucy Award]] in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.
• In 2011, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.