[1] She is best known for Bob Clark's low-budget zombie movie Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things[2] and as the original Kelly Harper on the CBS soap opera Capitol.

[5] In 1963, at 15 years of age, Daly was crowned Miss Teenage Miami and a finalist in the Miss Teenage America Pageant in Dallas, Texas[6] where she performed Peter Pan before a nationally televised audience.

[8] Daly starred in the 1987 NBC series Roomies[citation needed] opposite Burt Young.

She is notable for her 1994 role in the Cable Ace Nominated And Then There Was One opposite Amy Madigan and Dennis Boutsikaris capturing the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic.

She played Julia's mother[citation needed] alongside Tom Cruise on Mission Impossible III.