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.”
Dan Hedaya
Movies
Commando
A retired special agent named John Matrix led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. But now he is forced out of retirement when his daughter is kidnapped by a band of thugs intent on revenge! Unbeknownst…
Fun Facts
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 often plays Italian-Americans