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Ted Danson is well known for his role as Sam Malone in the television series Cheers (1982). During the show's 11-year run, he was nominated nine times for an Emmy Award as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and won twice, in 1990 and 1993. The role also earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 1989 and 1990. He and his wife, actress Mary Steenburgen, starred in and were executive producers of the CBS comedy series Ink (1996).

Edward Bridge "Ted" Danson III was born in San Diego, California, to Jessica Harriet (MacMaster) and Edward Bridge Danson, Jr., who was an archaeologist and museum director. He has English, Scottish, and German ancestry. He was raised just outside Flagstaff, Ariz. Danson attended Stanford University, where he became interested in drama during his second year. In 1972, he transferred to Carnegie-Mellon University (formerly Carnegie Tech) in Pittsburgh. After graduation, he was hired as an understudy in Tom Stoppard's Off Broadway production of "The Real Inspector Hound." Danson moved to Los Angeles in 1978 and studied with Dan Fauci at the Actor's Institute, where he also taught classes. Danson lives with his family in Los Angeles. He is a founding member of the American Oceans Campaign (AOC), an organization established to alert Americans to the life-threatening hazards created by oil spills, offshore development, toxic wastes, sewage pollution and other ocean abuses.

In 1984, Danson received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in the television movie Something About Amelia (1984), in which he starred opposite Glenn Close. He also starred opposite Lee Remick in The Women's Room (1980). In 1986, he made his debut as a television producer with When the Bough Breaks (1986), in which he also starred. He later starred in the mini-series Gulliver's Travels (1996) and Thanks of a Grateful Nation (1998). Danson's numerous feature film credits include The Onion Field (1979), in which he made his debut as Officer Ian Campbell, Body Heat (1981), Three Men and a Baby (1987), Three Men and a Little Lady (1990), Cousins (1989), Dad (1989), Made in America (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Mumford (1999), and Jerry and Tom (1998).

If I had my way everyone would be in a 12-step program.

Smoking is a great prop. It&#39;s a great prop in life.

Acting is pretending that you&#39;re not pretending when you&#39;re actually
pretending.

I am the king of the faux pas. I call everybody by their wrong name,
and I congratulate women who are not pregnant. I&#39;ve done so many awful
things by mistake, and usually it&#39;s things that make me look totally
foolish.

(On <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0001802/?ref_=nmqu_qu">Nancy Travis</a>) If she can pretend she finds me attractive after a
tuna fish sandwich, then she&#39;s my kind of girl.

[on hearing the news of the death of his &#39;Cheers&#39; co-star Kirstie Alley]: As I got off the plane, I heard that Kirstie had died. I am so sad and so grateful for all the times she made me laugh. I send my love to her children. As they well know, their mother had a heart of gold. I will miss her.

[condolence to &#39;Cheers&#39; co-star George Wendt] I am devastated to hear that Georgie is no longer with us, I am sending all my love to Bernadette and the children. It is going to take me a long time to get used to this. I love you, Georgie.

[on appearing in blackface at Whoopi Goldberg&#39;s friar club roast in 1993]: I need to and want to apologize for the rest of my life because somebody today can go on the internet and go, &#39;What the fuck? Wow, I feel betrayed, I feel angry.&#39; And I did that.

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