February 21: Happy Birthday Tyne Daly

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Another Tony winner for her musical work is Tyne Daly, who is 71 today. She is also a six-time Emmy winner, four of them for playing Mary Beth Lacey on Cagney & Lacey.

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Tyne Daly, who is turning 75 today, is pictured above with her long-time costar Sharon Gless (Daly is the brunette). Daly grew up in Westchester County, NY, and was regularly involved in summer stock theater. After studying at Brandeis, she made her Broadway debut in 1967 in That Summer, That Fall.



During the 1970s, Daly accumulated a long list of TV movie and guest role credits. She made a few feature film appearances; fans of the Dirty Harry series will recall her as Kate Moore, Harry’s partner in The Enforcer. She received her first Emmy nomination for the 1977 TV movie Intimate Strangers.

In 1981, Daly was cast in a TV movie about two female New York cops who are promoted to detectives and become partners. Titled Cagney & Lacey, it was soon brought back as a spring replacement series for CBS in 1982, and then a regular part of the network’s lineup beginning that fall.

Daly, as Mary Beth Lacey, was originally paired with Loretta Swit, then Meg Foster as Chris Cagney, before Sharon Gless joined the cast in fall 1982. For the next six years, Daly and Gless basically owned the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a drama. They were each nominated six straight times, with Daly winning four years and Gless the other two.

Since the end of Cagney & Lacey’s run, Daly has made a few feature film appearances. MCU fans may recall her as Anne Marie Hoag in Spider-Man: Homecoming. However, she has largely divided her time between television and theater.

Daly returned to Broadway in 1989, starring as Rose in the revival of Gypsy. She won the Tony for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. Since then, she has been a Tony nominee for David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole, and for Terrence McNally’s Mothers and Sons. She also starred as Maria Callas in a 2011 revival of McNally’s Master Class.

Daly has returned to the role of Mary Beth Lacey for some Cagney & Lacey TV movies. She won her fifth Emmy for the short-lived mid-nineties CBS drama Christy. She was also an Emmy nominee for an early 1990s guest appearance on Wings, which starred her younger brother Tim.

In 1999, Daly landed another good TV role when she was cast as Amy Gray’s mother, Maxine, on Judging Amy. She was nominated for six consecutive Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama, winning in 2003. More recently, she was a regular on the revival of Murphy Brown in 2018.