The veteran actress Kim Delaney was born on November 29, 1961, to Joan and Jack Delaney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she also grew up. Kim Delaney is Irish-American. Kim Delaney is the middle child to four brothers. Kim Delaney went to school in Hallahan Catholic Girls High School, and did modeling jobs on the side.

Kim Delaney’s 5’7 frame, brunette beauty, and overall good looks made her a stunner on the runway. Kim Delaney graced the covers of several magazines, Glamour and Seventeen were some of them. When Kim Delaney graduated from high school, she headed off to New York to model some more and eventually enrolled to study acting under the wings of Bill Esper at the William Esper Studio.

Kim Delaney’s first professional acting gig was for the soap opera, All My Children, in 1981, playing the role of the sweet and innocent Jenny Gardner. The show was what introduced Kim Delaney to the viewing public, and made her popular, also earning her a Emmy Daytime nomination. The show lasted until 1984, after which she started starring in B movies, such as Campus Man, Body Parts, and The Drifter, in which she did the first and only nude scene in her acting career.
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