
Biography
Ellen Tyne Daly (born February 21, 1946) is an American stage and screen actress, widely known for her work as Detective Lacey in the television series Cagney & Lacey. 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 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 Cagney & Lacey, 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, for which she won an Emmy in 1996 and Maxine Gray in Judging Amy, which won her a sixth Emmy in 2003. Her other Broadway credits include The Seagull, her Tony-nominated role in Rabbit Hole and her Tony-nominated role in Mothers and Sons. She played Maria Callas, both on Broadway and in London's West End, in the play Master Class. She portrayed Anne Marie Hoag in Marvel Studios' Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Awards & recognition
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series · 2003
- Lucy Award · 2002
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series · 1996
- Tony Award — Best Actress in a Musical · 1990
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series · 1988
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- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series · 1985
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series · 1984
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series · 1983
- Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Actress in a Musical
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Tony Award — Best Actress in a Play · 2014 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Featured Actress in a Play · 2006 · nominated
- Grammy Award — Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording · 2005 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles

Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions

Reading Rainbow

Grey's Anatomy

The Nanny

Columbo

Modern Family

Cagney & Lacey: Together Again

The Magic School Bus

Mission: Impossible

Inequality for All

Burn Notice

Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling

Quincy, M.E.

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Mom

Magnum, P.I.

The Graham Norton Show

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Looking: The Movie

Madam Secretary

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

Cagney & Lacey

Barnaby Jones

The Streets of San Francisco

McMillan & Wife

The Ray Bradbury Theater

The Rookies

Ironside

Cagney & Lacey: The Return

Wings

The Enforcer

The Magnificent Seven

The Virginian

Every Act of Life

Hello, My Name Is Doris

Zoot Suit

A Piece of Eden

Speedtrap

Bye Bye Birdie

Great Performances

The Cleveland Show

Money Kings

The Aviator

The Wedding Dress

Undercover Christmas

Scattered Dreams

Angel Unchained

The View

Absence of the Good

Basmati Blues