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Birth name Timothy Daly Date of birth (location) 1 March 1956, New York, New York, USA

Tim Daly grew up in a sort of real-life Woodstock. "Bands would practice in the living room, and there was a lot of cigarettes, deep talk and wine." -People Magazine, 1987. He was raised on a farm in Suffern, NY, and when his parents divorced in the '60s, Daly was drawn into the world of artists and musicians introduced by his three older sisters and fed by his mother's huge weekend breakfasts.

Attending boarding school didn't make him conventional, so after trying college for a few weeks, Daly dropped out and for two years drove back and forth across the country. He finally settled down in Venice, CA, where he started a floor-tiling business with two friends. "We lived in a dive apartment with a TV, couch, taco wrappers, beer cans and no girlfriends. We took a lot of drugs and lived a real scummy existence. I could have been a rich kid who stayed in college and got by on the path of least resistance, but I got much more out of being in the world and pulling my own weight."

By 1976, Daly decided he wanted to act. His sister is Tyne Daly, of Cagney and Lacey. Daly completed his acting studies at Bennington College within three years, acting constantly in theater productions. After graduation, he started supporting himself by remodeling loft spaces, and then touring with the Rhode Island Trinity Square Repertory Company.

He met his wife, Amy van Nostrand, in the company. She was already in the company of another man but Daly chased her anyway. "I was like a bad smell. I just wouldn't go away -- I knew we were right for each other." The two married a year later and soon had a son together.

Daly's break onto the big screen came when he starred in Diner (1982) and several movies and telefilms, such as I'll Take Manhattan during the following decade. An interesting point in Daly's career was when he starred as David Koresh in NBC's In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (1993). The movie had already started production when the cult compound was engulfed in fire. "Consider this. I went to work that Monday morning portraying a living person. I took a lunch break, and I went to work that afternoon playing a dead man." -People Magazine, 1993.

Daly's career isn't dead, however. Most fans recognize Daly from his starring role as Joe Hackett on Wings (1990-1997), and his continuing big-screen successes.

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