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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.

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.

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

He had a minor role (&quot;Trini Cardoza&quot;) in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000231/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Oliver Stone</a>&#39;s <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0113987/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Nixon (1995)</a> and
later played Nixon himself in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0144168/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Dick (1999)</a>.

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