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Tim Daly has been able to transcend his leading-man image to portray an extensive range of characters in all media of his craft, broadening a career already rewarded with Broadway triumphs and a wide spectrum of film and television roles.

He recently finished co-directing (with acclaimed cinematographer Clark Mathis) his directorial debut, Bereft, starring Vinessa Shaw, Marsha Mason, Edward Herrmann, Tim Blake Nelson and Michael C. Hall. He also recently served as producer for Edge of America, the tale of a girls Native American Indian basketball team and their cultural struggles.

Daly was last seen in a guest-starring role of J.T. in The Sopranos. Prior to that he appeared as a struggling sports reporter in the Charles S. Dutton directed feature, Against the Ropes, with Meg Ryan and Tony Shalhoub, based on the life of Jackie Kallen. He also appeared in the feature suspense thriller Basic, with John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson. Before these two films, he was seen in the Showtime telepic The Outsider, opposite Naomi Watts. Another recent success was his portrayal of Richard Kimble in the remake of the hit series The Fugitive.

Daly's creative palette includes a wide scope of projects, including his portrayal of Dan White, the 1978 assassin who murdered San Francisco's first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk, and Mayor George Moscone in Showtime's drama Execution of Justice. He also served as executive producer on the project, which won the GLAAD Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie. He later played a lead role in the ABC miniseries Stephen King's Storm of the Century, co-starred in the romantic comedy Object of My Affection, with Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, and played the legendary astronaut Jim Lovell in Tom Hanks' HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon.

Taking on a new challenge, Daly re-entered the television arena as the voice of Superman for Kid's WB. He also provides the hero's voice for the recent home video feature from Warner Brothers, The Superman/Batman Movie. He is best known for his work on NBC's landmark series Wings, where for eight seasons he portrayed airline pilot Joe Hacket.

Daly's other notable roles include his performance in Denise Calls Up, which was released by Sony Pictures Classics and received the Special Jury Prize at the 1995 Deauville Film Festival, in addition to being awarded a special mention for the Camera d'Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

He began his professional career as a student at Vermont's Bennigton College, where he studied theatre and literature and acted in summer stock. His first leading film role was in the now classic Diner, directed by Barry Levinson. Starring roles soon followed in Alan Rudolph's feature Made in Heaven, the American Playhouse production of The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket and the CBS dramatic series, Almost Grown.

In theatre he has starred in the Broadway production of Coastal Disturbances, Oliver, Oliver at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Mass Appeal and Bus Stop at Trinity Square Repertory, The Glass Menagerie 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. He and wife Amy Van Nostrand won DramaLogue Awards for Best Actress and Best Actor in the Coast Playhouse production of Colorado Catechism in Los Angeles.

Daly resides on the East coast with his family.

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