Kim Delaney
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Small TextKim Delaney (born November 29, 1961 in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress.
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[edit] Life and career
Kim was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Roxborough. Her parents are Jack and Joan. She has 4 brothers.
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 popular 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 Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King entitled, "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band" about Rock and Roll Heaven.
Beginning March 2007, she will be seen in the Lifetime television series Army Wives.[1]
[edit] Personal life
Delaney has been married twice, to actor Charles Grant from 1984 to 1988, and to actor Joseph Cortese from 1989 to 1994. She gave birth to son Jack Philip Cortese in 1990.
[edit] See also
- Greg and Jenny - an article in the supercouple series, chronicling her days on All My Children.
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| NYPD Blue | ||
| Characters | Andy Sipowicz | John Kelly | Bobby Simone | Danny Sorenson | John Clark, Jr. | Lt. Arthur Fancy | Greg Medavoy | Sylvia Costas | Diane Russell | Baldwin Jones | Lt. Tony Rodriguez | Rita Ortiz | Laura Murphy | Lt. Thomas Bale |
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| Actors | Dennis Franz | David Caruso | Jimmy Smits | Rick Schroder | Mark-Paul Gosselaar | James McDaniel | Gordon Clapp | Nicholas Turturro | Sharon Lawrence | Kim Delaney | Sherry Stringfield | Gail O'Grady | Andrea Thompson | Bill Brochtrup | Henry Simmons | Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon | Charlotte Ross | Esai Morales | Jacqueline Obradors | John F. O'Donohue | Currie Graham | Bonnie Somerville | |
| Creators | Steven Bochco | David Milch | |
| Episodes | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 Season 6 | Season 7 | Season 8 | Season 9 Season 10 | Season 11 | Season 12 |
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