
Acting · 80 years old
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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.

Face of a Stranger
Dollie Madison

Kids Like These
Joanna Goodman

Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions
Mary Beth Lacey

Reading Rainbow
Self - Narrator (voice)

Christy
Alice Henderson

Grey's Anatomy
Carolyn Shepherd

Columbo
Dorothea McNally

Columbo
Dolores McCain

The Nanny
Mona

Night of 100 Stars II
Self

The Business End: Violence in Cinema
Self

Modern Family
Mrs. Plank

Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
Self

The Magic School Bus
Ralphie's Mom (voice)

The Magic School Bus
Dr. Tennelli (voice)

Mission: Impossible

Inequality for All
Mary Beth Lacey (archive footage)

Judging Amy
Maxine Gray

Quincy, M.E.

Judd for the Defense