Who knows what might have happened to her, if she wasn’t noticed by the “Elite” modeling agency in the high school. All in all, after the graduation she moved to New York to learn acting art with William Esper. Meanwhile, she was working as a model to pay off her housing expenses.

When Kim was twenty, producers found offered her a role of innocent teenager Jenny on the TV series "All My Children". Nowadays, actress acknowledges that this was one of her most rewarding roles: many viewers of this drama continue telling her, that they watched the show only because of Kim’s character. Delany was acting in this soap opera from 1981 to 1984 and received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination and loyal fan base. Kim left the show to try herself as a film actress. As her career was growing she got married to the actor Charles Grant in 1984, but their marriage fell apart in 1988. Right after the divorce, she got married to Joseph Cortese, but this marriage didn’t last long, even though they had a child together.  In the 1985, she was performing in “That was then... This Is Now”. The next year she was playing in “The Delta Force”. In the 1987, she starred in “Christmas Comes to Willow Creek”, and in the second season of “L.A. Law”. However, she wasn’t staying there for long this same year she gave a birth to her son. Soon, she had to come back to acting to get some extra money after the divorce with Mr. Cortese, but unfortunately films that she was taking part in were of a really low quality as for the opinion of the critics, viewers and an actress herself. 

Fortunately, she got the appealing invitation to film “The Force” in the 1994. The following year, Kim Delaney began portraying the role of Detective Diane Russell in “NYPD Blue”. She wasn’t supposed to stay there for a long time, but eventually, viewers enjoyed her character’s romance with the Detective Bobby Simon. For this role Kim was awarded her first Emmy Award as Best Supporting Actress in a Drama. After work on NYPD, Delaney was chosen for the lead role in the new TV series “Philly”. Kim was engaged to the producer Alan Barnette from 1997, but after numerous arguments their engagement fell apart in 2007. 

Her others work in the movies include: “Campus Man”, “Cracked Up”, “Something Is Out There”, “Body Parts”, “The Fifth Corner”, “Tall”, “Dark and Deadly”, “Serial Killer”, “Closer and Closer”, “All Lies End in Murder”, “The Devil's Child”, “Mission to Mars”, “Love and Treason”, “Infidelity”, “10.5”, and “Finding a Family”. Participation in these projects made her a fortune: Delany has a net worth of $3 millions.