Tyne Daly has won six Emmy Awards for her television work, a Tony Award and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.
31 Facts About Tyne Daly
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Tyne Daly played Maria Callas, both on Broadway and in London's West End, in the play Master Class.
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Tyne Daly portrayed Anne Marie Hoag in Marvel Studios' Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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Tyne Daly was born in Madison, Wisconsin, to actor James Tyne Daly and actress Mary Hope.
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Tyne Daly is of Irish descent, her ancestors being from Limerick and Kerry.
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Tyne Daly 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.
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Tyne Daly studied at Brandeis University and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.
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Tyne Daly won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series four times, in 1983,1984,1985,1988, and was a nominee in 1986 and 1987.
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In 1991, Tyne Daly guest-starred on her brother Tim's series Wings, playing a woman who dates Brian Hackett, brother of Tim's character Joe.
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Tyne Daly appeared as social worker Maxine Gray, who was the mother to the show's title character on the CBS drama Judging Amy, which ran from 1999 to 2005.
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Tyne Daly appeared in a made-for-TV movie for Lifetime in 2003 titled Undercover Christmas, as Anne Cunningham.
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Tyne Daly 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.
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Tyne Daly acted in the last episode of Madam Secretary and brother Tim Daly was featured.
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In 1988, Tyne Daly appeared on the Dolly Parton TV variety show Dolly, and sang a duet with Parton.
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Broadway producer Barry Brown saw the show and, impressed by Tyne Daly's performance, decided to mount a revival of the musical Gypsy with Tyne Daly in the lead role of Rose.
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Tyne Daly won the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in Gypsy.
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Tyne Daly left Gypsy in July 1990, with Linda Lavin playing Rose, and returned in April 1991 through closing in July 1991.
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Tyne Daly appeared in the Broadway revival of the Anton Chekhov play The Seagull in 1992 as Madame Arkadina.
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Tyne Daly appeared on Broadway in the 2006 play Rabbit Hole, portraying the mother of the play's protagonist, played by Cynthia Nixon.
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Tyne Daly debuted the role of Judy Steinberg in It Shoulda Been You, at the George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey, which ran from October 4 to November 6,2011.
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Tyne Daly starred as Maria Callas in Master Class at the Manhattan Theater Club on Broadway, from June 14,2011 to September 4,2011.
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Tyne Daly reprised her role as Maria Callas in the West End production of Master Class, which opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on February 7,2012 in a limited engagement to April 28,2012.
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Tyne Daly performed a cabaret act, Second Time Around, in January 2010 at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, New York City.
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Tyne Daly had previously performed at Feinstein's in May 2009.
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Tyne Daly appeared in John and Mary, the biker movie Angel Unchained, the movie adaptation of Play It as It Lays, and The Adulteress.
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Tyne Daly was cast as Inspector Harry Callahan's first female partner, Kate Moore, in the 1976 Dirty Harry film The Enforcer.
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Tyne Daly's performance divided critics, with some calling it too "mannered" for film, while others praised the strength she brought to the role.
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Tyne Daly has been identified as a feminist icon in the media, particularly based on her television role in Cagney and Lacey.
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Tyne Daly has been outspoken about maintaining a natural appearance as she ages, and for the run of Judging Amy, Daly's hair was its naturally gray state and not dyed.
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Tyne Daly was married to Georg Stanford Brown from 1966 to 1990.
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Tyne Daly has been nominated for the Emmy Award a total of 16 times; she has won 6 times, for the following television performances:.