Dan Hedaya
Biography
Dan Hedaya is a veteran actor born on July 24, 1940, in New York City to a Sephardic Jewish family from Aleppo, Syria. He began performing at Tufts University's campus theater while studying, and later worked as a junior high school teacher before pursuing acting full-time, training at HB Studio in NYC. Notable roles include his scheming Nick Tortelli on Cheers and the villainous husband in the Coen brothers' crime thriller Blood Simple.
