Tim Daly

James Timothy Daly (born June 1, 1956) is an American actor.

He is best known for his role as Joe Hackett on the NBC sitcom Wings and his recurring role as the drug-addicted screenwriter J.T. Dolan on The Sopranos (for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award).

Daly was born June 1, 1956, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, the only son and youngest of four children of actor James Daly (1918–1978) and actress Mary Hope Daly (Newell; 1921–2009).

He is of Irish descent, his ancestors being from Limerick and County Kerry.

He is the younger brother of actress Tyne Daly.

He has two other sisters, Mary Glynn (wife of Mark Snow) and Pegeen Michael.

Daly attended The Putney School, 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.

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.

He graduated from college in 1979, and returned to New York to continue studying acting and singing.

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.

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."

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), though the film itself was controversial because it was already in production while the Waco standoff was still on-going.

Daly also became noted for voicing Clark Kent/Superman in Superman: The Animated Series during this time.

As a voice-actor, Daly portrayed superhero Superman and his alter ego Clark Kent in Superman: The Animated Series (1996–2000), but was unable to return as Superman (thus being replaced by Christopher McDonald in Batman Beyond and 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.

In 1997, he and J. Todd Harris formed Daly-Harris Productions, 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, whom Hanks himself had portrayed in the film Apollo 13.

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 him 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.

Daly made several appearances on The Sopranos as J.T. Dolan, an AA buddy of Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli).

In 2006, Daly played the role of Nick Cavanaugh on the new ABC drama The Nine.

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 Superman animated movies.

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.

From 2007 to 2012, Daly played a love interest for Kate Walsh's character on the TV series Private Practice.

From 2014 until 2019, he portrayed Henry McCord, husband of the Secretary of State, on the CBS drama Madam Secretary.