Tim Daly

At 68 years old, Tim Daly has this physical status:

James Timothy Daly (born March 1, 1956) is an American actor and director.

Joe Hackett of the NBC sitcom Wings and his character as Clark Kent/Superman in Superman: The Animated Series, as well as his recurring role as the drug-addicted screenwriter J.T. Dolan on The Sopranos (for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award).

Pete Wilder appeared on Private Practice from 2007 to 2012.

On CBS' Madam Secretary, Henry McCord, the titular character's husband, appeared from 2014 to 2019.

Early life

Daly was born in Manhattan on March 1, 1956, the only son and youngest of four children of actor James Daly (1918-1981–1978) and actress Mary Hope Daly (1921–2009). He is of Irish descent, with his ancestors being from Limerick and Kerry. He is Tyne Daly's younger brother. Mary Glynn (wife of Mark Snow) and Pegeen Michael are two of his sisters. Daly began studying acting at The Putney School.

Daly began his academic career as a student at Bennington College, Vermont, where he studied Theatre and Literature, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. He graduated from college in 1979 and returned to New York to continue studying acting and singing.

Personal life

Amy Van Nostrand, the daughter of Dr. Van Nostrand, the famous New York City Dermatologist, was married to Daly in 1982. They have two children, including Sam. In Madam Secretary, his son played the ex-fiancé of main character Daisy Grant and his daughter played the niece of Henry McCord's character. She graduated from Barnard College in 2011 and became a Fulbright scholar in Brazil. Daly and Van Nostrand divorced in 2010. Since December 2014, he has been dating Téa Leoni, the Madam Secretary co-star.

Daly scaled Mount Kilimanjaro in 2012. In the same year, President Barack Obama and his sibling Tyne supported Democratic re-election bids. During the 2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting, Daly was in the Virgin America first-class lounge. While on vacation in Sundance, Daly broke both legs in a ski crash in January 2017.

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Career

Daly debuted on stage in Jenny Kissed Me by Jean Kerr, alongside his parents and two siblings. He appeared on television for the first time when he was ten years old in Henrik Ibsen's American Playhouse version of An Enemy of the People, which starred his father James Daly. He longed for a sports or music career, and he'd also considered becoming a surgeon or a lawyer, but then decided to become an actor. When Daly appeared in a 1978 version of Peter Shaffer's play Equus, he began his professional acting career.

In the film Diner, directed by Barry Levinson, in which he shared screen time with actors including Kevin Bacon and Mickey Rourke, he was his first leading film role. In Alan Rudolph's film Made in Heaven, the American Playhouse production of The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket's The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket, and the CBS dramatic series Almost Grown created by David Chase, starring roles were soon followed by a script.

He has appeared in the Broadway production of Coastal Disturbances opposite Annette Bening and received a 1987 Theatre World Award for his role. He has appeared in Oliver, Oliver at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Mass Appeal by Bill C. Davis, and Bus Stop by William Inge at Trinity Repertory Company, A Knife in the Heart, and A Study in Scarlet at the Williamstown Playhouse, as well as at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Daly appeared in Toby Amberville's CBS television miniseries at this time.

Daly claims to be extremely self-critical in his work. "I think part of it (his self-critical nature) is passed down to me from my parents, who are actors," Daly said in an interview with New Zealand radio personality Polly Gillespie. The theater was our temple... When you entered, you were supposed to lead by example of this majestic city."

Wings, an American sitcom, appeared on NBC from April 19, 1990, to May 14, 1997. Joe and Steven Hackett appeared as brothers Joe and Brian Hackett in this film. The show was held at a small airport in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where the Hackett brothers operated the one-plane airline Sandpiper Air.

David Koresh in In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (1993), but the film itself was tense because it was still in production when the Waco standoff was still ongoing, but the Waco standoff was also ongoing.

During this period, Daly was also known for voicing Clark Kent/Superman in Superman: The Animated Series.

He and J. Todd Harris formed Daly-Harris Productions in 1997, which produced films including Execution of Justice (1999) (TV), Urbania (2000), and Tick Tock (2000). Daly appeared in several episodes of Emmy Award-winning, Tom Hanks-produced HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon playing astronaut Jim Lovell, whom Hanks himself had portrayed in the film Apollo 13.

In a revival of the classic television show The Fugitive, Daly appeared as Dr. Richard Kimble from 2000 to 2001. There was only one season of the series.

In 2002, Daly guest-starred in the TV series "Mr. Monk and the Airplane" for a brief period of time, reuniteing him with Wings castmate Tony Shalhoub for a brief period. Daly returned to Broadway in 2006 when he appeared alongside David Schwimmer and eljko Ivanek in the Broadway revival of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Daly performed on The Sopranos as J.T. Dolan, an AA buddy of Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli), is a writer who writes about Dolan (Michael Imperioli). Daly was named in the Emmy Awards for his work on the series in 2007. He appeared on the midseason ABC crime series Eyes, which attracted rave reviews but was cancelled after only five episodes. Daly appeared on the new ABC drama The Nine in 2006 as Nick Cavanaugh. Daly appeared on the television show Private Practices from 2007 to 2012.

In Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000), Daly portrayed superhero Superman and his alter ego Clark Kent, but he was unable to return as Superman in Batman Beyond and George Newbern in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, because he was under contract to star in a revival of the 1960s TV series The Fugitive. In the video game Superman: Shadow of Apokolips and the direct-to-video versions, he recalled his role as Superman in the video game Superman: Brainiac Attacks Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Superman/Batman: Doom. Daly reprised his role as Superman in an animated remake of the 2013 film Man of Steel by the Hub Network to celebrate the film's release and advertise the network's forthcoming marathon of Superman episodes.

Daly heads Red House Entertainment. Edge of America, which received a Peabody Award and a Humanitas Award, and Daly's debut, the independent film Beft, were among the company's films. Wandering Bark Productions, a Paramount Pictures-based company that caters to a variety of film, television, and theater productions, has also been created by Daly. The company's film credits include the premiere of Vincent J. Cardinal's A Colorado Catechism, starring Daly. The performance received rave reviews and was given the Drama-Logue Award for Best Actor. PoliWood, Daly's co-production of a documentary about the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. At the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, Barry Levinson directed the film for the premiere.

In 2014, Daly guest appeared in recurring roles on The Mindy Project and Hot in Cleveland. Henry McCord, the husband of the title character on the television show Madam Secretary, appeared from mid-2014 to 2019.

Daly resurrecting his role as Superman for Justice League: Battle for Metropolis, an interactive dark ride found at seven different Six Flags theme parks throughout the United States and Mexico in 2015.

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