Tyne Daly's 3 Children: All About Kathryne, Alisabeth and Alyxandra

Tyne Daly is part of a Hollywood dynasty: her parents were actors, her brother Tim Daly is an actor, and all three daughters – Kathryne, Elisabeth and Alyxandra Brown – grew up on Hollywood sets and have creative careers.

The six-time Emmy winner is best known for her role in Cagney and Lacey, a 1980s crime drama focusing on detectives Mary Beth Lacey (Daly) and Christine Cagney (Sharon Gless). But long before she started acting in the series, she married actor and director George Stanford Brown in 1966, when she was 19 and he was 22. “I looked at that guy and said, ‘This is the father of my children. I better go introduce myself.’ That was crystal clear,” Daly said The New York Times in 2014.

The couple was married for 24 years and together they had three daughters: Elisabeth, born in 1967; Kathryne, born 1971; and Alyxandra, born in 1985.

“I like to be different,” Daly told PEOPLE in 1977. “My father looked at me first, then my husband. Now it’s with my kids or because I’m an actress and people think they recognize me. That’s fine with me.”

Keep reading to find out all about Tyne Daly’s three daughters.

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Tyne Daly and daughter Elizabeth Brown during Ms. magazine. Magazine celebrates Kathy Najimy as one of the women of the year 2004.

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Elisabeth was born on December 12, 1967 in New York. At the time, her young parents were still struggling to establish a career and were struggling financially. “The cockroaches were sneaking out of the cereal we ate all week,” Daly said of their first apartment, speaking to PEOPLE in 1977. “There’s nothing glamorous about starving.”

When she was young, Elisabeth worked briefly in film, working as a production assistant Sister Act and as Secretary of Production for A Vietnam War Story and Club life. She recently returned to film, working as a creative producer on an independent film Mink River.

According to her bio for the film, Elisabeth was a serious dancer when she was younger. “Modern dance formed her early years as an artist; she began studying at the age of 5 and continued her rigorous practice for over 16 years,” it says. “Although she had serious aspirations to make dance her life’s work, she did not feel at home within the narrowly defined criteria for ‘fitting in’ in predominantly white institutions.”

Today, Elisabeth is a visual artist working on sculptures and glass. “Her love of honing technique with the freedom afforded by her foundation in dance is similar to her relationship with materials and conceptual ideas in that she prioritizes experimentation and exploration in all her projects,” her bio reads.

She has lived in New York and Los Angeles in the past, but now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “I spent a total of two weeks in Santa Fe before I moved here, and I had no idea what it had to offer,” said Elisabeth. Santa Fe found in 2018. “But coming here, it feels like a sanctuary and I definitely fell in love with it. Santa Fe is a great place to work. I still have those moments where I feel restless or wanderlust, when I think about moving to Europe, but if I have to be functional, operational and fulfill obligations for my family, this is a great place to do it.”

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Tyne Daly and daughter during CBS at 75 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York.

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Kathryne was born on February 10, 1971 in Los Angeles. Like her older sister, she grew up on movie sets.

In a 1985 PEOPLE profile of Daly and Gless, focusing on Cagney and Lacey, Kathryne and Elisabeth were on set with their mom. During the interview, Daly played Beatles music. “My daughter Kathryne is reintroducing me to the Beatles,” she said in the story.

Kathryne started acting as a teenager and even appeared in Cagney and Lacey TV movie with mother. She also appeared in several episodes of Daly’s show Judging by Amy, and her father directed her in television episodes.

“I practically grew up behind the scenes, being around actors, watching my parents do it,” Kathryne told Brown in an interview with Backstage. “I wanted to act since I was five years old.”

“It was hard for me to say that I wanted to be an actor; I thought I would be tried because of my family,” she added. “When I decided one day that I was going to go to New York and enroll in acting school, I remember you saying, ‘No. Stay in college.’ You changed later. But you taught me a bit of a lesson: ‘You’re a woman, you’re black. Black women don’t have many opportunities in this industry. It will be difficult. Why don’t you stay at college?’ ”

Kathryne also described feeling pressure from her family’s accomplishments. “My grandfather had a saying, ‘Don’t put your family down,'” she said. “In a way it’s a joke, but in a way it’s not. So, you know, it’s a lot of pressure. My family is actually scarier than my critics.”

Kathryne has two daughters, Posy and Poppy, and lives in Los Angeles. On her Medium blog, Kathryne describes herself as “a single mom living in Hollywoodland. I’ve been a somewhat successful actor, baker, preschool teacher, cancer survivor, and lifelong contrarian.”

In 2021, she posted a photo of her daughters on Instagram with the caption: “These two: my everything; my reason. #nationaldaughtersday #posypie #poppyhope 💕.”

In the same year, she also published a photo of her and Elisabeth as children in honor of her sister’s birthday, with the caption: “Happy birthday to one of my favorite people on this planet. My #best since birth @littlebigheadb 🤎.”

Alyxandra Brown, 38

Tyne Daly with daughters Kathryn, Alyxandra and Elisabeth at the Warner Home Video ‘Dirty Harry’ release party on May 9, 2008.

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Alyxandra was born on October 1, 1985 in Los Angeles. As an adult, he is called “Xan”.

And while she is not an actress like her parents and sisters, she follows her creativity and artistic nature as a baker, and runs a company called Five Petal Creations with her husband Mark in Canada.

The cakes they bake use family recipes, which they describe as “heritage of love”.

“While living in my hometown of Los Angeles, my sister introduced me to the owners of The Village Bakery and Café,” she writes in her 2020 bio on the bakery’s website. “Working with Barbara and her team gave me experience and skills that I use to this day.”

“Fast forward a few years of living in Canada… I met a person who would change my life forever,” the biography continues. “During a spontaneous three-day first date, we found out how much we have in common – he’s a chef working on his Red Seal, I’m a baker and a student, both lovers of travel, food and movies, and both with the desire to one day own something of our own.”

It adds: “Now we have two children and a big house and – with the arrival of the pandemic – it seemed that the time had come to start turning our dreams into reality. [Now, the couple has three children: Roscoe, Evelyn and Theia.] We work hard and start small. Putting love and joy into every cake, cookie and spice mix. We bring a little professional charm to our homemade treats and a little decadence to your weekend.”

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