Tyne daly biography

Tyne Daly

American actress (born 1946)

Ellen Tyne Daly (; born February 21, 1946)[1] is an American actress whose six-decade career included many leading roles in movies and theater. She has won six Emmy Awards for her television work,[2] a Tony Award, and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.

Daly began her career on stage in summer stock 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 the CBS police drama Cagney & Lacey (1982–88), for which she won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She also won Emmy Awards for her roles as Alice Henderson in the period drama series Christy (1994–95), and Maxine Gray in the legal drama series Judging Amy (1999–2005).

She starred in the Broadway revival of Gypsy (1989), earning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.[3] Her other Tony-nominated roles were in Rabbit Hole (2006) and Mothers and Sons (2014). She played Maria

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Tyne Daly is a six-time Emmy Award winner, a Tony Award winner and an American Theatre Hall of Fame Inductee. She is perhaps best known on television for her work as title character Detective Mary Beth Lacey in the classic CBS series Cagney & Lacey. She won four Emmy Awards for her performance in this role, and between herself and co-star Sharon Gless, they won 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. Additionally, Daly is well known for her Emmy-winning role as Maxine Gray on Judging Amy, her Emmy-winning role as Alice Henderson on Christy, and as Phyllis in the 2018 revival of Murphy Brown, all three on CBS. Daly has been acting on Broadway since 1967, including in hits like Gypsy (1989), for which she won the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, The Seagull (1992), Rabbit Hole (2006), and Mothers and Sons (2014). Following a Broadway run, in 2012 she reprised her role as Maria Callas in Master Class in London&

Tyne Daly Biography

Date of Birth:
Feb 21, 1946Birth Place:
Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Biography

After more than two decades as a journeyman player on stage and screen, Tyne Daly found television stardom as the no-nonsense, commonsensical Mary Beth Lacey, partner of Chris Cagney, on the police series "Cagney & Lacey" (CBS 1982-88). The daughter of actors James Daly and Hope Newell, Ellen Tyne Daly was the second of four children. Raised in Westchester County, New York, she began her acting career appearing in summer stock productions with her family and earned her Equity card at age 15 after being cast in the title role of "Jenny Kissed Me." Fate dealt her a blow, however, when a prominent agent dismissed her performance in favor of one of his proteges, relegating Daly to a supporting role. Daly went on to train at Manhattan's American Musical and Dramatic Academy, finding a mentor in teacher Philip Burton. In 1966, she debuted on Broadway in a revival of "The Butter and Egg Man" and went on to land small roles in films and TV. By the mid-1970s, Daly's career was on the

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