Dan Hedaya

• Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
• Birthday: July 24, 1940

This prolific and extremely versatile character player's expressive and rubbery mug has served him well in a variety of disparate roles and genres on stage, film and TV. Hedaya had substantial theater experience with the New York Shakespeare Festival and has appeared in over 25 features since 1980 but he is most widely known for his extensive TV work. "Cheers" cultists fondly remember him as Nick Tortelli, the unscrupulous and hirsute ex-husband of Rhea Perlman's Carla and the star of a subsequent short-lived spin-off, "T…more