While she was still attending Hallahan Catholic Girls High School, she worked as a model for the agency Elite. After her graduation she went to New York and was also employed there as a model. At the same time she studied acting with the renowned trainer Bill Esper.
She first became well-known for her stint as the innocent teenager Jenny Gardner Nelson on the soap opera All My Children, which she portrayed from 1981 to 1984. Her leading man was character Greg Nelson Laurence Lau. After her marriage to "Greg," Kim decided to leave the series, so Jenny later died in an explosion of a jet ski.
In 1994, Delaney acted in the film The Force with Yasmine Bleeth and Jason Gedrick.
Delaney has since had regular roles in the series Tour of Duty, NYPD Blue (her most prominent role), Philly (in which she was the lead) and CSI: Miami. Her stint on the latter program ended abruptly in the middle of the first season for reasons never completely revealed to the public.
In 2005, she began a recurring role on The O.C.. In 2006, she starred with Steven Weber in an episode of Stephen King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes entitled, "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" about Rock and Roll Heaven.
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