Who are Tim Daly and Tyne Daly’s parents? All we know as actress reveals she wasn’t invited to her brother’s wedding to Téa Leoni

American actress Tyne Daly recently told People during an exclusive interview that she wasn’t invited to her brother and actor Tim Daly’s July 12 NYC wedding, to his longtime girlfriend and co-actor, Téa Leoni. Tim and Tyne Daly’s parents are actor James Daly and Irish descent actress Mary Hope Newell.

During the conversation at the Televerse Festival in Los Angeles on August 16, Tyne Daly mentioned:

"There was a small wedding. Very exclusive, very, very private… They only had people that they gave birth to or people who gave birth to them."

The 79-year-old John and Mary actor added that the Daly-Leoni wedding was held at the couple’s “beautiful apartment in New York” and they would soon host a reception.

Tyne Daly also shared that she was going to meet the newlyweds “quite soon” and was making a “Christmas present” for her new sister-in-law. Her Judging Amy co-star Amy Brenneman shared that the former was knitting something for Téa Leoni, 59.

"It's a secret. I can't tell you what the present is. Nobody likes surprises anymore," Tyne Daly added.

Exploring the family of Tim and Tyne Daly

Actors James Daly and Mary Hope Newell tied the knot in 1942. Tyne Daly was born in February 1946 in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Rockland County, New York. Tim Daly, 69, who is 10 years younger than Tyne, was born in March 1956 in Manhattan, New York City. They had two other siblings: Mary Glynn (who later married composer Mark Snow) and Pegeen Michael.

James, who is best remembered for his role in the TV drama Medical Center and the movie Planet of Apes (1968), divorced Mary in 1965, and he later came out as gay. Per Windy City Times, in a June 2016 appearance on CBS News’ Sunday Morning Father’s Day episode, Tim Daly revealed:

“My dad left when I was a very young man, a young boy, and I didn’t see him very much. You know, my parents had a long and difficult marriage, mostly because my father was gay. Not many people know this.”

The Madame Secretary star continued,

“But given the wisdom of that era—the medical, psychological, and societal wisdom of that time, which was all false—being homosexual was a disease, right, that could be cured. My father worked very hard to try to ‘cure’ himself of something incurable, and so did my mom. And it was very sad.”

Tim added that his father came out to him when he was 19, two years before he passed away in 1978 from heart failure. His mother, Mary, died in 2009.

In December 2018, Tim and Tyne Daly acted together in the Off-Broadway production Downstairs. At the time, the duo appeared on Variety’s theater podcast, Stagecraft, and shared about growing up in a family of actors.

Tim shared that as a kid he considered actors,

“drunken grownups who wouldn’t feed me.”

His sister mentioned not enjoying acting, adding,

"[she was] too old to lie about it anymore.”

Tyne Daly said,

“The longer I do it, and the more I know about it and the more I’ve done it, the worse I get at it, so the harder it is to get to some kind of standard of accomplishment.”

Tim Daly was married to actress Amy Van Nostrand between 1982 and 2010. They share two children, including son Sam Daly, who’s also an actor. Tim began dating Téa Leoni in late 2014, and they got married last month in an intimate ceremony in New York.

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Téa Leoni has been married twice before. Her first husband was TV commercial producer Neil Joseph Tardio Jr., from 1991 and 1995. In 1997, Leoni married actor-writer-musician David Duchovny, and divorced him in 2014. They share a daughter and actress Madelaine West Duchovny, and a son, Kyd Miller Duchovny.

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