- Born
- Nickname
- Dan "The Man" Hedaya
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Dan Hedaya is a familiar face from his work in films and on TV, where he often plays a villain (although he had a good comic turn as the charmingly sleazy Nick Tortelli, Carla's ex-husband, in Cheers (1982) and its short-lived spin-off The Tortellis (1987)). He has also done much stage work, appearing opposite Alien: Resurrection (1997) star Sigourney Weaver in "The Conjuring an Event" at the American Place Theater. Other stage performances include Broadway roles such as "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" and many New York Shakespeare Festival productions.
- IMDb mini biography by: frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Before becoming an actor he taught junior high school for several years.
- Although he often plays Italian-Americans, Hedaya is actually the son of Sephardi Jewish immigrants from Syria.
- Graduated from Tufts University in 1962.
- He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
- He had a minor role ("Trini Cardoza") in Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995) and later played Nixon himself in Dick (1999).
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