Delaney first became a Star for her stint as innocent teenager Jenny Gardner Nelson on the soap opera All My Children, a character she portrayed from August 1981 to August 1984. Her leading man was "Greg Nelson," played by Laurence Lau. After her marriage to "Greg," and at the height of her popularity (indeed, her Q rating in 1984, a ratio of an actor's likeability and recognizability, was the highest in daytime, outranking other daytime icons of the era like Susan Lucci, Deidre Hall, Genie Francis, and Tony Geary), Kim decided to leave the series; consequently, Jenny later died in an explosion of a jet ski. Delaney began acting in feature films after leaving All My Children. In 1985, she appeared with Emilio Estevez in "That Was Then, This is Now." In 1986, she played a young nun in the military action movie "The Delta Force," starring Chuck Norris. In 1987, she was cast as Amanda Jones in "Some Kind of Wonderful" opposite Peter Gallagher, but before filming, new director Howard De