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.