Tim Daly
{{short description|American actor (born 1956)}}
{{redirect|Timothy Daly|the playwright|Timothy Daly (playwright)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2013}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Tim Daly
| image = Tim Daly - Monte-Carlo Television Festival.jpg
| caption = Daly in 2015
| birth_name = James Timothy Daly
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|3|1}}
| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.
| occupation = Actor, producer
| alma_mater = Bennington College, B.A. 1979
| yearsactive = 1963–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Amy Van Nostrand|1982|2010|reason=divorced}}
| partner = Téa Leoni (2014–present)
| alias = Timothy Daly
| children = 2, including Sam Daly
| father = James Daly
| relatives = Tyne Daly (sister), George Kirgo (uncle)
}}
James Timothy Daly (born March 1, 1956){{cite news |last1=Reakes |first1=K |title=Happy Birthday To Suffern's Tim Daly |url=https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/ramapo/lifestyle/happy-birthday-to-sufferns-tim-daly/693779/ |access-date=3 April 2024 |work=Daily Voice |date=1 March 2017}} is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Joe Hackett on the NBC sitcom Wings and his recurring role as drug-addicted screenwriter J.T. Dolan on The Sopranos (for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award). He starred as Pete Wilder on the ABC medical drama Private Practice from 2007 to 2012. He is also known for his voice role as Clark Kent/Superman in Superman: The Animated Series and several animated Superman movies. From 2014 until 2019, he portrayed Henry McCord, husband of the Secretary of State, on the CBS political drama Madam Secretary, starring Téa Leoni.
Early life
File:Tyne Daly and Tim Daly at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg]]
Daly was born at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan,{{Cite web |last=Drake |first=David |date=April 3, 2006 |title=Tim Daly interview |url=http://www.broadway.com/buzz/11174/tim-daly/ |access-date=June 11, 2015 |publisher=Broadway.com |quote=I am [a native New Yorker]! I was born in Mount Sinai Hospital.}} the only son and youngest of four children of actor James Daly (1918–1978) and actress Mary Hope Daly ({{nee|Newell}}; 1921–2009). He is of Irish descent, his ancestors being from Limerick and County Kerry.{{cite web | url=https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/108389/each-type-of-acting-is-interesting-each-one-has-its-value | title='Each type of acting is interesting; each one has its value' }}{{Cite web |last=Fraser |first=C. Gerald |date=July 6, 1978 |title=James Daly, Actor, Is Dead at 59; Took Many TV Character Roles; Had Part in 'Roots II' Won an Emmy Award |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/06/archives/james-daly-actor-is-dead-at-59-took-many-tv-character-roles-had.html |website=The New York Times}} He is the younger brother of actress Tyne Daly.{{Cite web |last=Du Brow |first=Rick |date=November 5, 1991 |title=Tim and Tyne Daly Team Up on 'Wings' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-05-ca-821-story.html |access-date=May 22, 2015 |website=Los Angeles Times}} He has two other sisters, Mary Glynn (wife of Mark Snow){{Cite web |date=June 2, 2014 |title=Zombies & ASCAP Music Highlight TV Academy's SCORE! Concert |url=http://www.ascap.com/playback/2014/05/action/score-concert-tv-academy.aspx |access-date=May 22, 2015 |website=ASCAP.com}} and Pegeen Michael. Daly attended The Putney School,{{Cite web |date=August 14, 2013 |title=Tim Daly Says: Arts Education = Creativity |url=http://www.putneyschool.org/content/tim-daly-says-arts-education-creativity |access-date=May 22, 2015 |publisher=The Putney School |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304185421/http://www.putneyschool.org/content/tim-daly-says-arts-education-creativity |url-status=dead }} where he started to study acting.
Daly began his professional career while a student at Vermont's Bennington College, where he studied Theatre and Literature, acted in summer stock, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. He graduated from college in 1979, and returned to New York to continue studying acting and singing.{{Cite web |last=Raspuzzi |first=Dawson |date=June 3, 2011 |title=Tim Daly tells grads: Enjoy life |url=http://www.benningtonbanner.com/ci_18203288 |access-date=May 22, 2015 |website=Bennington Banner |archive-date=May 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502053926/http://www.benningtonbanner.com/ci_18203288 |url-status=dead }}
Career
Daly debuted on stage when he was seven years old in Jenny Kissed Me by Jean Kerr, together with his parents and two sisters. He appeared for the first time on TV when he was 10 years old in an American Playhouse adaptation of An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, which starred his father James Daly. He dreamed about a sports or music career and also considered becoming a doctor or a lawyer, but finally decided to become an actor. Daly started his professional acting career when he appeared in a 1978 adaptation of Peter Shaffer's play Equus.
His first leading film role was in the film Diner, directed by Barry Levinson, in which he shared screen time with actors including Kevin Bacon and Mickey Rourke. Starring roles soon followed in Alan Rudolph's feature, Made in Heaven, the American Playhouse production of The Rise & Rise of Daniel Rocket, and the CBS dramatic series, Almost Grown created by David Chase.
In theatre he has starred in the Broadway production of Coastal Disturbances by playwright Tina Howe opposite Annette Bening and received a 1987 Theatre World Award for his performance. He has also starred in Oliver, Oliver at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Mass Appeal by Bill C. Davis and Bus Stop by William Inge at Trinity Repertory Company, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams at the Santa Fe Festival Theatre, A Knife in the Heart and A Study in Scarlet at the Williamstown Playhouse, and Paris Bound at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. During this time, Daly also starred in the CBS television miniseries I'll Take Manhattan as Toby Amberville.
Daly describes himself as being highly self-critical in regard to his career. In an interview with New Zealand 'ZM' radio personality Polly Gillespie, Daly was quoted as saying, "I think part of it (his self-critical nature) is passed down to me from my parents who are actors. The theatre was our temple... When you entered you were expected to live up to the example of this glorious place."{{Cite web |title=ZMTV – Tim Daly |url=http://www.zmonline.com/Video/AccessAllAreas/Detail.aspx?id=15235# |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201143640/http://zmonline.com/Video/AccessAllAreas/Detail.aspx?id=15235 |archive-date=December 1, 2010}}
=1990s=
Wings is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from April 19, 1990, to May 14, 1997. It starred Daly and Steven Weber as brothers Joe and Brian Hackett. The show was set at Tom Nevers Field, a small airport in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where the Hackett brothers operated the one-plane airline, Sandpiper Air.
In 1993, he gave a much-respected performance as David Koresh in In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (TV). The film was controversial because it was already in production while the Waco standoff was on-going.
Daly also became noted for voicing Clark Kent/Superman in Superman: The Animated Series during this time.
In 1997, he and J. Todd Harris formed Daly-Harris Productions,{{Cite web |last=Richmond |first=Ray |date=November 12, 1997 |title=Daly tries pic prod'n |url=https://variety.com/1997/film/news/daly-tries-pic-prod-n-1200324790/}} through which he produced such films as: Execution of Justice (1999) (TV), Urbania (2000) and Tick Tock (2000). In 1998, Daly appeared in several episodes of the Emmy award-winning, Tom Hanks-produced HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon playing astronaut Jim Lovell. Hanks had portrayed that person in the film Apollo 13.
=2000s=
During the 2000–2001 television season, Daly starred as Dr. Richard Kimble in a remake of the classic television series The Fugitive. The series lasted only one season.
In 2002, Daly guest-starred as himself in the TV series Monk in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Airplane", briefly reuniting with his Wings castmate Tony Shalhoub. In 2006, Daly returned to Broadway when he appeared on stage opposite David Schwimmer and Željko Ivanek in the Broadway revival of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial.{{Cite web |title=Tim Daly joins cast of Broadway's The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/97659.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229070338/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/97659.html |archive-date=December 29, 2008}}
Daly made several appearances on The Sopranos as J.T. Dolan, an AA buddy of Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli). Daly received a 2007 Emmy nomination for his work on the series. He appeared on the midseason ABC crime series Eyes, which got good reviews but was canceled after only five episodes.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}} In 2006, Daly played the role of Nick Cavanaugh on the new ABC drama The Nine. From 2007 to 2012, Daly played a love interest for Kate Walsh's character on the TV series Private Practice.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
As a voice-actor, Daly portrayed superhero Superman and his alter ego Clark Kent in Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000). He was unable to return as Superman (and was replaced by Christopher McDonald in Batman Beyond or as George Newbern in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited), as he was under contract to star in a remake of the 1960s TV drama The Fugitive. He reprised his role as Superman in the video game Superman: Shadow of Apokolips and the direct-to-video releases Superman: Brainiac Attacks, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Superman/Batman: Apocalypse and Justice League: Doom.
Daly heads Red House Entertainment. Films produced through the company include Edge of America, which won a Peabody Award and a Humanitas Prize, and Daly's directing debut, the independent film Bereft.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}
Daly also created Wandering Bark Productions, based at Paramount Pictures, a company designed to develop and produce a variety of film, television and theater projects. The company's producing credits include the Los Angeles premiere of Vincent J. Cardinal's play A Colorado Catechism, starring Daly. The play received favorable reviews and earned Daly the Drama-Logue Award for Best Actor.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}} Daly co-produced a documentary, PoliWood, about the 2008 Democratic and Republican National conventions. The documentary, directed by Barry Levinson, had its premiere at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
In 2014, Daly guest starred in recurring roles on The Mindy Project and Hot in Cleveland.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}} From mid-2014 until 2019, he played Henry McCord, the husband of the title character on the TV series Madam Secretary, played by Tea Leoni, about a US Secretary of State.{{Cite web |title=CBS Picks Up "Madam Secretary" With Bebe Neuwirth and Patina Miller |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/191058-CBS-Picks-Up-Madam-Secretary-With-Bebe-Neuwirth-and-Patina-Miller-Plus-McCarthys-Comedy-With-Laurie-Metcalf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513123200/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/191058-CBS-Picks-Up-Madam-Secretary-With-Bebe-Neuwirth-and-Patina-Miller-Plus-McCarthys-Comedy-With-Laurie-Metcalf |archive-date=May 13, 2014 |access-date=August 14, 2014 |publisher=Playbill}}
Non-profit work
Daly is an activist in various liberal political and social causes.
In the beginning of 2007, Daly became a member of The Creative Coalition (TCC), a liberal, politically active 501(c)(3) nonprofit consisting of members of the American film entertainment industry; since 2008, Daly has served as its president.{{Cite web |last=Gough |first=Paul J. |date=August 19, 2008 |title=Tim Daly is Creative co-president |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/tim-daly-is-creative-president-117759/ |access-date=August 13, 2008 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |agency=Associated Press}} As a member of TCC, Daly joined the National Task Force on Children's Safety, a program co-founded by TCC and Safety4Kids which describes itself as "the first children's media brand focused solely on safety and health."{{Cite web |title=ガチャガチャ伝説 |url=http://www.ntfcs.org/blosxom.cgi |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907071958/http://www.ntfcs.org/blosxom.cgi |access-date=May 21, 2021 }}[https://web.archive.org/web/20071024164542/http://www.thecreativecoalition.org/press/NTFCS060607.htm The Creative Coalition and Safety4Kids Turn Words into Action with Powerful Children's Safety and Media Literacy Summit on Capitol Hill], June 6, 2007 In August 2007, Daly became one of the three chairs for TCC's activity at the 2008 Democratic and Republican conventions, along with actress Kerry Washington and writer/director Sue Kramer.{{Cite web |title=The Creative Coalition Names Chairs for 2008 Political Conventions at Summer Celebration |url=http://thecreativecoalition.org/press/LA08-14-07.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20081228005859/http://thecreativecoalition.org/press/LA08-14-07.htm |archive-date=December 28, 2008}}{{Cite web |title=The Creative Coalition Takes on 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions |url=http://www.thecreativecoalition.org/press/LA08-14-07a.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20071024164454/http://www.thecreativecoalition.org/press/LA08-14-07a.htm |archive-date=October 24, 2007}} In November 2007, Daly interviewed Senator John Edwards, one of the Democratic presidential candidates.{{Cite web |title=John Edwards Jokes: 'I Don't Wear Makeup' |url=https://extratv.com/2007/11/16/john-edwards-jokes-i-dont-wear-makeup/ |website=Extra}}
In June 2008, Daly, together with Chandra Wilson, was named the 2008 ambassador for Lee National Denim Day – a fundraiser for breast cancer benefiting the Women's Cancer Programs of the Entertainment Industry Foundation.[http://www.emediawire.com/releases/denimday/2008/prweb993434.htm Tim Daly and Chandra Wilson Named 2008 Lee National Denim Day Ambassadors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226183425/http://www.emediawire.com/releases/denimday/2008/prweb993434.htm |date=December 26, 2008 }}
Personal life
Daly married actress Amy Van Nostrand in 1982. They have two children, including Sam Daly. In Madam Secretary, their son played the ex-fiancé of main character Daisy Grant and their daughter played the niece of his character Henry McCord.{{Cite web |title=Who Is Henry's Niece on 'Madam Secretary'? That's Tim Daly's Daughter |url=https://2paragraphs.com/2016/12/who-is-henrys-niece-on-madam-secretary-thats-tim-dalys-daughter/ |access-date=2021-01-05 |website=2paragraphs.com |date=October 28, 2016 |language=en-US}} In 2010, Daly and Van Nostrand divorced.
Daly has been dating Téa Leoni, his Madam Secretary co-star, since December 2014.{{Cite web |last= |date=April 27, 2015 |title=Téa Leoni, Tim Daly Make Their Red Carpet Debut At White House Correspondents' Dinner |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/27/tea-leoni-tim-daly-dating_n_7153514.html |access-date=May 22, 2015 |website=Huffington Post}}{{Cite web |last=Hargrave |first=Hannah |date=January 25, 2017 |title='Madam Secretary' Star Tim Daly Breaks Both Legs in Skiing Accident in Sundance |url=http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/madam-secretarys-tim-daly-breaks-both-legs-w462842 |website=Us Weekly}}
In 2012, Daly climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. That same year, he and his sister Tyne endorsed the re-election campaign of Democratic U.S. President Barack Obama.{{Cite web |date=September 4, 2012 |title=Actor Tim Daly: 'Obama Kept Us From Going Into a Really Severe Depression, Thank God for That' |url=http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/09/04/actor-tim-daly-obama-kept-us-from-going-into-a-really-severe-depression-thank-god-for-that/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123133515/http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/09/04/actor-tim-daly-obama-kept-us-from-going-into-a-really-severe-depression-thank-god-for-that/ |archive-date=January 23, 2013 |access-date=2012-10-21 |publisher=Fox News Insider |df=mdy-all}}{{Cite news |last=Yoon |first=Robert |date=2012-07-24 |title=Celebs Open Wallets In WH Race, Mostly For Obama |work=The Denver Channel |url=http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/31298734/detail.html |url-status=dead |access-date=2012-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120831192115/http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/31298734/detail.html |archive-date=August 31, 2012 |df=mdy-all}} Daly was in the Virgin America first-class lounge during the 2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting.{{Cite web |title=LAX passenger: Being kept in tunnel - CNN Video |date=November 2, 2013 |url=https://www.cnn.com/videos/bestoftv/2013/11/02/bb-lax-shooting-scene-tim-daly.cnn |via=www.cnn.com}}
Filmography
=Film=
class="wikitable"
|+Key | style="background:#FFFFCC;" | {{dagger|alt=Films that have not yet been released}} |Denotes films that have not yet been released |
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
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1982
| Diner | Billy |Credited as Timothy Daly |
1984
| Frank Bantam | |
1987
| Tom Donnelly | |
1988
| Jeff Mills | |
1989
| Himself | |
1990
| Love or Money | Chris Murdoch | |
1992
| Oliver Plexico | |
1994
| Detective Ray Dillon | |
rowspan="2" | 1995
| Frank Oliver | |
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
| Doctor Richard Jacks | |
1996
| Frank Peterson | |
1998
| Dr. Robert Joley | |
1999
| Jesse Campbell | |
2003
| Basic | Colonel Bill Styles | |
rowspan="3" | 2004
| Gavin Reese | |
Bereft
| Uncle 'Happy' | Also producer and director |
Return to Sender
| Martin North | |
2005
| Professor Tatsuo Kusakabe |
rowspan="3" | 2006
| Superman|Clark Kent / Superman |
The Good Student
| Ronald Gibb | |
Generation Boom
| Himself | |
rowspan="3" | 2009
| Bryan Becket | |
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
| Clark Kent / Superman |
PoliWood
| Himself | Documentary |
rowspan="2" | 2010
| Clark Kent / Superman |
Dilf
| Jake Holt | Short film |
2012
| Clark Kent / Superman |
rowspan="2" | 2013
| Jonathan | |
After Darkness
| Raymond Beaty Sr. | |
2015
| Tom Blake | |
2023
| Dennis Sykes | |
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| {{pending film|The Panic}} | Post-production |
=Television=
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
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1966
| An Enemy of the People | Morten Stockmann | Film |
1981
| Dann | Episode: "Gatorbait" |
1983
| Dr. Edward Gillian | Episode: "Ryan's Four" |
1984
| Kevin Coates | rowspan="2" | Film |
1985
| Mirrors | Chris Philips |
rowspan="2" | 1986
| Richard | Episode: "The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket" |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
| Scott | Episode: "Enough Rope for Two" |
1987
| Toby Amberville | 2 episodes |
1988–1989
| Norman Foley | 13 episodes |
rowspan="2" | 1989
| Elliot Chase | Episode: "Watching Me, Watching You" |
Red Earth, White Earth
| Guy Pehrsson | Film |
1990–1997
| Wings | Joe Montgomery Hackett | 172 episodes |
rowspan="2" | 1993
| Colonel James Jackson Jr. | 2 episodes |
In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco
| rowspan="3" | Film |
rowspan="2" | 1994
| Dangerous Heart | Angel Perno |
Witness to the Execution
| Dennis Casterline |
1995
| Thor Merrick | Episode: "Bad Pennies" |
1996–2000
| Superman: The Animated Series | Clark Kent / Superman, Bizarro |
rowspan="2" | 1998
| 4 episodes |
Invasion America
| Additional Voices | 13 episodes |
rowspan="3" | 1999
| Mike Anderson | 3 episodes |
Execution of Justice
| rowspan="3" | Film |
Intimate Portrait: Tyne Daly
| Narrator |
2000
| A House Divided | Charles Dubose |
2000–2001
| Dr. Richard Kimble | 23 episodes |
rowspan="2" | 2002
| Monk | Himself | Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Airplane" |
The Outsider
| Johnny Gault | Film |
rowspan="3" | 2003
| Monty Fisher | Episode: "Shock and Awe" |
Edge of America
| Leroy McKinney | rowspan="2" | Film |
Wilder Days
| John Morse |
2004–2007
| J.T. Dolan | 4 episodes |
2005
| Eyes | Harlan Judd | 12 episodes |
2006
| Cameron Manchester | Episode: "Happy Birthday, Madam President" |
2006–2007
| The Nine | Nick Cavanaugh | 13 episodes |
rowspan="2" | 2007
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Reverend Jeb Curtis | Episode: "Sin" |
Grey's Anatomy
| rowspan="2"| Dr. Peter "Pete" Wilder | 2 episodes |
2007–2012
| 98 episodes |
2013
| Ray Harper | Episode: "A'ale Ma'a Wau" |
rowspan="2" | 2014
| Charlie Lang | 3 episodes |
Hot in Cleveland
| Mitch | 5 episodes |
2014–2019
| Henry McCord | 120 episodes |
2021–2023
| The Game | Colonel Ulysses S. Thatcher | 9 episodes |
2024
| Mr. Pederson | Episodes: "MRI", “Shower Sex” |
=Producer credits=
=Theatre=
==Broadway==
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
! Production ! Playwright ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
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1987–88
| Leo Hart |
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2006
| The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | prosecutor Lt. Cmdr. John Challee | |
==Off-Broadway==
==Other stage credits==
class="wikitable sortable" |
Year
! Production ! Playwright ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
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1963
| Jenny Kissed Me | | |
1978
| Equus | Alan Strang |
|
1981
| The Fifth of July | | |
1981
| |
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1981
| |
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1983
| Mass Appeal | |
|
1983
| Bus Stop | |
|
1983
| The Cabaret | | |
|
1983
| A Knife in the Heart | Donald Holt | |
| A Christmas Carol
| Charles Dickens/Hall and Cumming adaptation | |
|
1985
| Paris Bound | |
|
| The Glass Menagerie
| |
|
| The Lion in Winter
| |
|
1987
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Jefferson Hope | |
| Dugout
| | |
|
1993
| The Colorado Catechism | Ty Wain |
|
| Love Letters
| Andrew Makepiece Ladd III |
|
2000
| Ancestral Voices | | |
| Love Letters
| Andrew Makepiece Ladd III |
|
2004
| Cabaret & Main | | Darius de Haas | |
2010
| Flan Kittredge |
|
2016
| The Ruins of Civilization | | | |
2017
|Downstairs | |
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Awards and nominations
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