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Adorable Tim Daly turns 58 today.
James Timothy "Tim" Daly (born March 1, 1956) is an American stage, screen and voice actor, director and producer. He is best known for his television role as Joe Hackett on the NBC sitcom Wings and for his voice role as Superman/Clark Kent in Superman: The Animated Series, as well as his recurring role of the drug-addicted screenwriter J.T. Dolan on The Sopranos for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award. He starred as Pete Wilder on Private Practice until his character was subsequently written out due to budgetary cuts.
Daly was born in New York City, the only son and youngest child of actors James Daly and Mary Hope Newell. He is the younger brother of actress Tyne Daly, who is 10 years his senior, and is a brother-in-law of television and film composer Mark Snow. He has two other sisters, Mary Glynn (Snow's wife) and Pegeen Michael. He is of part Irish ancestry. 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 theater and literature, in which he now holds a Bachelor of Arts, and acted in summer stock. He graduated from college in 1979 and returned to New York to continue studying acting and singing.
Daly married actress Amy Van Nostrand in 1982. They have two children: son Sam born in 1984, and daughter Emelyn, born in 1989. In 2010, Daly and his wife divorced. In 2012, on a personal quest, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. In 2013, Daly was in the Virgin America first class lounge during the shooting at the LAX airport.
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