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Tyne Daly

Acting

Born February 21, 1946 · Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Also known as Tyne Daly Brown · تاین دالی

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 AwardOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series · 2003
  • Lucy Award · 2002
  • Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series · 1996
  • Tony AwardBest Actress in a Musical · 1990
  • Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series · 1988
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  • Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series · 1985
  • Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series · 1984
  • Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series · 1983
  • Drama Desk AwardOutstanding Actress in a Musical
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
  • Tony AwardBest Actress in a Play · 2014 · nominated
  • Tony AwardBest Featured Actress in a Play · 2006 · nominated
  • Grammy AwardBest Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording · 2005 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions

1996as Mary Beth Lacey

Reading Rainbow

1983as Self - Narrator (voice)

Grey's Anatomy

2005as Carolyn Shepherd

The Nanny

1993as Mona

Columbo

1971as Dorothea McNally

Modern Family

2009as Mrs. Plank

Cagney & Lacey: Together Again

1995as Mary Beth Lacey

The Magic School Bus

1994as Dr. Tennelli (voice)

Mission: Impossible

1966

Inequality for All

2013as Mary Beth Lacey (archive footage)

Burn Notice

2007as Tina

Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling

1995as Mary Beth Lacey

Quincy, M.E.

1976

Spider-Man: Homecoming

2017as Anne Marie Hoag

Mom

2013as Barbara

Magnum, P.I.

1980as Kate Sullivan

The Graham Norton Show

2007as Self

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

2018as Lady (segment "The Mortal Remains")

Looking: The Movie

2016as Justice of the Peace

Madam Secretary

2014as Senator Amy Ross

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

1993as Self (segment "Monster in the Mirror")

Cagney & Lacey

1982as Mary Beth Lacey

Barnaby Jones

1973as Madge Winston

The Streets of San Francisco

1972as Mrs. Carlino

McMillan & Wife

1971

The Ray Bradbury Theater

1985

The Rookies

1972

Ironside

1967as Joanna Leigh

Cagney & Lacey: The Return

1994as Mary Beth Lacey

Wings

1990as Mimsy Borogroves

The Enforcer

1976as Insp. Kate Moore

The Magnificent Seven

1998as Ma Nichols

The Virginian

1962as Faith Bradbury

Every Act of Life

2018as Self

Hello, My Name Is Doris

2015as Roz

Zoot Suit

1981as Alice Bloomfield

A Piece of Eden

2000as Aunt Aurelia

Speedtrap

1977as Niffty Nolan

Bye Bye Birdie

1995as Mae Peterson

Great Performances

1971as Brunhilde 'Hildy' Esterhazy

The Cleveland Show

2009

Money Kings

1998as Ellen

The Aviator

1985as Evelyn Stiller

The Wedding Dress

2001as Joan Delano

Undercover Christmas

2003as Anne Cunningham

Scattered Dreams

1993as Kathryn Messenger

Angel Unchained

1970as Merilee

The View

1997as Self - Guest

Absence of the Good

1999as Dr. Marcia Lyons

Basmati Blues

2017as Evelyn