Tyne Daly

Ellen Tyne Daly (; born February 21, 1946) 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 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 City, 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. Her other Tony-nominated roles were in Rabbit Hole (2006) and Mothers and Sons (2014). She played Maria Callas, both on Broadway and in London's West End, in the play Master Class (2011–12). Her other Broadway credits include The Seagull (1992) and It Shoulda Been You (2015).

Daly made her film debut in John and Mary (1969). She is known for her film roles in The Enforcer (1976), Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015), and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018). She received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female nomination for her role in the Patrick Wang drama A Bread Factory (2018). She portrayed Anne Marie Hoag in Marvel Studios' Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).

Early years and education Daly was born in Madison, Wisconsin, to actor James Daly and actress Mary Hope (née Newell). She is of Irish descent, her ancestors being from Limerick and County Kerry. Her younger brother is actor Tim Daly.

She was raised in Rockland 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.

Career 1967–1980: Career beginnings Daly's first Broadway role was in 1967 in a short-lived play, That Summer, That Fall.

Daly appeared in John and Mary (1969), Angel Unchained (1970), 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. The concept of a male/female police partnership was later used as the basis for the television show Hunter.

1981–2005: Breakthrough and stardom

Daly appeared in the CBS police-procedural crime drama Cagney & Lacey as Mary Beth Lacey, the married working mother. She won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series four times, in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1988, and was a nominee in 1986 and 1987. Between co-star Sharon Gless and her, they won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series six years in a row.

In 1988, Daly appeared on the Dolly Parton TV variety show Dolly, and sang (at her request) a duet with Parton. Broadway producer Barry Brown saw the show, and impressed by Daly's performance, decided to mount a revival of the musical Gypsy with Daly in the lead role of Rose. Cagney & Lacey had finished airing, and Daly agreed. In April 1989, the Daly-helmed Gypsy revival began a 14-city U.S. tour; it was then presented on Broadway in November 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.

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 in the Broadway revival of 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, in April 1997.

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 the Lifetime television film Undercover Christmas in 2003 as Anne Cunningham. Among her later television roles, Daly reunited with Cagney & Lacey costar Sharon Gless in a 2010 guest role on the series Burn Notice.

2006–present: Return to Broadway

She appeared on Broadway in the David Lindsay-Abaire play Rabbit Hole (2006) portraying the mother of the play's protagonist, played by Cynthia Nixon. For her performance she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. In January 2008, she played the role of Mother in the world premiere production of Edward Albee's 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. 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.

During this time, she took several roles in television, including portraying Mabel Dodge Luhan in the Lifetime movie Georgia O'Keeffe acting alongside Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen. She also guest-starred as Carolyn Shepherd in a 2009 episode of the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy and Tina in the 2010 episode of the USA Network series Burn Notice. She starred as Maria Callas in the Terrence McNally play Master Class at the Manhattan Theater Club on Broadway, from June 14, 2011 (previews) to September 4, 2011. The musical ran on Broadway in 2015.

She took supporting roles in the independent film Hello, My Name Is Doris starring Sally Field and the romantic comedy film Basmati Blues (2017) with Brie Larson, and played Anne Marie Hoag in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). She had a minor role in the Coen Brothers anthology Western film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018). That same year, she had a leading role in the Patrick Wang films A Bread Factory Part 1 & 2 (2018). In the fall of that year, Daly joined the cast of the revival of the Murphy Brown series, playing the character of Phyllis, who runs the bar that Murphy and her coworkers often patronize. She also guest-starred in Grey's Anatomy in 2019, Madam Secretary in 2019, and Mom in 2021. In 2024 Daly was set to return to Broadway in a revival of John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt opposite Liev Schreiber; however, she withdrew from the production after being hospitalized.

Public image and legacy Daly has been identified as a feminist icon in the media, particularly based on her television role in Cagney and Lacey. Her role as Lacey showed a woman detective at a time when 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.

Personal life Daly was married to Georg Stanford Brown from 1966 to 1990. They have three daughters.

Filmography Sources: General Hospital| Caroline Beale | Faith Bradbury Episode: "The Orchard"

Judd, for the Defense| Sandy Jamieson Episode: "The View from the Ivy Tower" CBS Playhouse| Sarah Episode: "Sadbird" | Dolores Abernathy Episode: "The Death of Wild Bill Hannachek"

| Kathy Episode: "On the Horizon" Ironside| Joanna Leigh Episode: "The People Against Judge McIntire" Medical Center| Jennifer Lochner Episode: "Moment of Decision"

In Search of America| Anne Television film A Howling in the Woods| Sally Bixton Television film Longstreet| Marcella Episode: "One in the Reality Column" McMillan & Wife| Janet Benton Episode: "Husbands, Wives, and Killers" Mission: Impossible| Saretta Lane Episode: "Nerves"

Heat of Anger| Jean Carson Television film Young Dr. Kildare| Rachel Dixon Episode: "The Thing with Feathers" Mod Squad| Prudence Gordon Episode: "Good Times Are Just Memories" Medical Center| Barbara Episode: "The Choice"

Medical Center| April Episode: "Deadly Game" Ghost Story| Anna Freeman Episode: "Earth, Air, Fire and Water" Hawkins| Ellen Hamilton Episode: "A Life for a Life" | Marly Devon Episode: "A Farewell Tree from Marly" The Man Who Could Talk to Kids| Susie Datweiler Television film

Larry| Nancy Hockworth Television film | Lucille Baker Episode: "Time Lock" | Mrs. Carlino Episode: "Commitment" Doc Elliot| Beth Ann Blackner Episode: "The Touch of God" Barnaby Jones| Madge Winston Episode: "A Gathering of Thieves" The Wide World of Mystery| Laurie Episode: "The Haunting of Penthouse D"

Lucas Tanner| Jenny Milo Episode: "Collision" The Law| Lucy TV miniseries Medical Center| Liz Lathem Episode: "Gift from a Killer" | Mary Episode: "Cliffy"

| Jean Television film | Amy Kennedy Episode: "From Out the Darkness"

Intimate Strangers| Karen Renshaw Television movie Visions| Ann Episode: "The Dancing Bear" 1978 Greatest Heroes of the Bible| Abishag Episode: "The Judgment of Solomon"

Shirley| Athena Episode: "Twenty Years to Life" Better Late Than Never| Ms. Davis Television film

The Women's Room| Adele Television film Quincy, M.E.| Madeline Estes Episode: "The Night Killer"

| Donna Television film Quincy, M.E.| Kay Silver Episode: "Gentle Into That Good Night" CBS Afternoon Playhouse| Catherine Ellis Episode: "The Great Gilly Hopkins" Lou Grant| Melissa Cummings Episode: "Violence" 1981–1988 Cagney & Lacey| Det. Mary Beth Lacey Main Cast; 126 episodes

Magnum, P.I.| Kate Sullivan Episode: "The Jororo Kill" Quincy, M.E.| Anna Krushevitz Episode: "For Love of Joshua"

Your Place... or Mine| Karen Television film The Mississippi| Performer Episode: "The Shooting" 1986 Wanted: A Room with Love| Narrator Television special 1987 Kids Like These| Joanna Goodman Television film 1988 Dolly| Genevieve Episode: "1.20" 1989 Stuck with Each Other| Sylvia Cass Television film

| Mary Ellen Television film Face of a Stranger| Dollie Madison Television film | Vicki Lindman Episode: "The Reunion" Wings| Mimsy Borogroves Episode: "My Brother's Keeper"

Swamp Thing| Carla Jeffries Episode: "Lesser of Two Evils" | Cora Gibbs Episode: "Great Wide World Over There" Columbo| Dolores McCain Episode: "A Bird in the Hand..."

No Room for Opal| Glorene Television film Scattered Dreams| Kathryn Messenger Television film

| Dr. Archer Television film Christy| Alice Henderson Television film The Return| Mary Beth Lacey A Cagney & Lacey television film Columbo| Dorothea McNally Episode: "Undercover"

| Dr. Tennelli Voice, 2 episodes:"Inside Ralphie" and"Going Batty" Christy| Alice Henderson Main Cast; 20 episodes

| Mona Episode: "Strange Bedfellows" Together Again| Mary Beth Lacey A Cagney & Lacey Television film Bye Bye Birdie| Mae Peterson Television film

A Cagney & Lacey Television film 1996 True Convictions| A Cagney & Lacey television film

The Perfect Mother| Elanie Podaras Television film Tricks| Sarah Television film

Vig| Ellen Television film For Your Love| Mary Winston Episode: "The Mother of All Visits"

Three Secrets| Shelley Television film Absence of the Good| Dr. Marcia Lyons Television film Execution of Justice| Goldie Judge Television film Veronica's Closet| Emily Blair Episode: "Veronica's from Venus/Josh's Parents Are from Mars" | Ma Nichols Episode: "Vendetta" 1999–2005 Judging Amy| Maxine Gray Main Cast; 138 episodes 2001 | Joan Delano Television film 2003 Undercover Christmas| Anne Cunningham Television film 2009 Georgia O'Keeffe| Mabel Dodge Stern Television film 2009–2019 Grey's Anatomy| Carolyn Shepherd 2 episodes 2010 Burn Notice| Tina Episode: "A Dark Road" 2014 Modern Family| Mrs. Plank Episode: "Won't You Be Our Neighbor" 2016 Looking: The Movie| Justice of the Peace Television film 2018 Murphy Brown| Phyllis 13 episodes 2019 Madam Secretary| Senator Amy Ross Episode: "Leaving the Station" 2021 Mom| Barbara Episode: "Whip-Its and Emotionally Attuned Babies" 2026 Leanne| Nancy Episode: "The Old Cat Had Her Reasons" Theatre Year Production Role Venue RefBroadway roles 1967 That Summer - That Fall Josie Helen Hayes Theatre, Broadway 1992 The Seagull Madame Arkadina Lyceum Theatre 2014 Mothers and Sons Katharine Gerard John Golden Theatre 2015 It Shoulda Been You Judy Steinberg Brooks Atkinson Theater Off-Broadway roles 1966 The Butter and Egg Man Jane Weston Cherry Lane Theatre 1995 Call Me Madam Sally Adams Encores!, New York City Center 1998 Mystery School Performer Angel Orensanz Center 2009 Love, Loss, and What I Wore Performer Westside Theatre 2017 Dear World Countess Aurelia York Theatre Company 2018 Downstairs Irene Primary Stages, Cherry Lane Theatre Other stage credits 1963 Jenny Kissed Me Performer Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, Pennsylvania 2010 The Second Time Around Cabaret Feinstein's at the Regency, New York City Master Class Maria Callas Kennedy Center 2011 It Shoulda Been You Mother of the Bride George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey 2012 Master Class Maria Callas Vaudeville Theatre, London 2013 Ragtime Emma Goldman Avery Fisher Hall 2016 Dear World Countess Aurelia Valley Performing Arts Center, Los Angeles 2017 Chasing Mem'ries Victoria The Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles

Note: Tyne was scheduled to return to Broadway in the 2024 revival of Doubt: A Parable as Sister Aloysius, but was forced to pull out of performances the week previews began due to a brief hospital stay. Amy Ryan stepped in to fill the role for the remainder of its run.

Awards and nominations

Daly has been nominated for the Emmy Award a total of 16 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 her work on Broadway receiving a Tony Award with three nominations: Best Actress in a Musical, winner, for Rose in Gypsy (1990) Best Featured Actress in a Play, nominee, for Nat in Rabbit Hole (2006) Best Actress in a Play, nominee, for Katharine in Mothers and Sons'' (2014)

Discography Bernstein: On the Town, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, Deutsche Grammophon, 1993