Kim Delaney

ABOUT KIM DELANEY

Emmy Award-winning actress who played Detective Diane Russell on the television series NYPD Blue and Claudia Joy Holden on Army Wives .

She worked as a model for the Elite agency while attending high school.

Early in her career, her performance as Jenny Gardner Nelson on All My Children earned her a Daytime Emmy Award.

She married Joseph Cortese in 1989, and the couple had a son in 1990.

She starred in NYPD Blue with Dennis Franz .