Biography for
Dan Hedaya More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

24 July 1940, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Nickname

Dan "the man" Hedaya

Height

5' 9" (1.75 m)

Mini Biography

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.

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Trivia

He had a minor role ("Trini Cardoza") in Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995) and later played Nixon himself in Dick (1999).

Graduated from Tufts University in 1962.

Although he mostly plays Italian-Americans, Hedaya is actually of Syrian heritage and comes from a tight-knit Sephardic-Jewish family.

Before becoming an actor he taught junior high school for several years.

He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.