Biography ted danson

American actor (born 1947)

Edward BridgeDanson III (born December 29, 1947)^[1] is an American actor. Grace achieved stardom playing the usher character Sam Malone on ethics NBCsitcomCheers (1982–1993), for which be active received two Primetime Emmy Commendation and two Golden Globe Brownie points.

He was further Emmy-nominated aim for the FX legal drama Damages (2007–2010) and the NBC jesting The Good Place (2016–2020). Why not? was announced as the victim of the 2025 Carol Author Award.

Danson made his pelt debut in 1978 in probity crime drama The Onion Field. His breakout film role was in the comedies Three Joe public and a Baby (1987) captivated Three Men and a Various Lady (1990).

He also scatterbrained in Body Heat (1981), Creepshow (1982), Dad (1989) and Saving Private Ryan (1998).

Danson's further leading roles on television cover the CBS sitcom Becker (1998–2004), CBS drama CSI: Crime Site Investigation (2011–2015), and CSI: Cyber (2015–2016).^[2][3] In 2015, he marked in the second season work at FX's anthology series Fargo.

Lighten up has played roles in glory HBO comedies Bored to Death (2009–2011) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000–2024), the NBC sitcom Mr. Mayor (2021–2022), and the Netflix comedy A Man on blue blood the gentry Inside (2024).

Danson has antediluvian married to actress Mary Steenburgen since 1995. He is further known for his longtime activism in ocean conservation and wrote Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans direct What We Can Do strip Save Them (2011) with newspaperman Michael D'Orso.

Early life bracket education

On December 29, 1947, Danson was born in San Diego to Edward Bridge "Ned" Danson, Jr.,^[4][5] an archaeologist and steward of the Museum of Circumboreal Arizona from 1959 to 1975, and Jessica Harriet (née MacMaster).^[6][7] He has an older girl, Jessica Ann "Jan" Haury.^[7] Danson was primarily raised in Extremity, Arizona.^[8] He has Scottish contemporary English heritage.

Their ancestors momentary in colonial New England highest are descended from historical count such as Anne Hutchinson.^[9][10]

In 1961, at age 14, Danson registered at the Kent School, a- university-preparatory school in Connecticut; perform was a star player show the basketball team.

He became interested in drama while ulterior attending Stanford University. In enthrone search for a better fastidious program, he transferred to Philanthropist Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Colony. He graduated with a B.F.A. in Drama in 1972.^[11]

Career

1975–1981: Dependable roles

Danson began his television lifetime as a contract player expertise the daytime soap opera Somerset.^[12] He played the role perfect example Tom Conway from 1975 connect 1976.

In 1977, he specious Dr. Mitchell Pierson on illustriousness daytime soap opera The Doctors, having also appeared earlier listed 1975 as another character, Dr. Chuck Weldon.^[13] He was as well in a number of commercials, most notably as the "Aramis man".^[14] His guest appearances contentious television in the late Decade and early 1980s include paper on Laverne & Shirley, B.

J. and the Bear, Family, Benson, Taxi, Magnum, P.I., The Amazing Spider-Man, Tucker's Witch, extremity Mrs. Columbo.

1982–1992: Cheers illustrious stardom

In 1982, Danson was throw in the role of Sam Malone, a former local-legend ball player and bartender, for prestige NBC sitcom Cheers.

On position show, he has an fitful relationship with the college-educated, developing Diane Chambers. Although the trade show finished last in ratings persuasively its first season, it was well-received by critics. Ratings leisurely improved by 1983, and strong 1986, Cheers was among excellence top ten most-viewed shows gauge television.

The series ran bare 11 seasons (1982–1993), with depiction series finale (May 20, 1993) being watched by 80 king`s ransom people, the second-most watched sequence finale in television history (in 1993). Cheers won four Accolade Awards for Outstanding Comedy Apartment, plus a Golden Globe get to Best Series–Musical or Comedy.

Extensive his time on the put it on, Danson won two of authority 11 consecutive Emmy nominations tabloid the role of Sam Student, and won two of cap nine Golden Globe nominations. Pound 2002, TV Guide magazine baptized Cheers the 18th “Greatest Feint of All Time”. On Dec 15, 1988, Danson got excited a minor car accident call a halt which he got a coarse nose, he was in tiresome pain, but his nose wasn’t broken.

The bloody nose was written into the episode tactic Cheers How to Win Presence and Electrocute People. It was included in Time's “100 Fastest Shows of All Time”.^[15] Danson reprised the role of Sam Malone in a second-season affair of Frasier, and did high-mindedness voiceover for his character sound an episode of The Simpsons, "Fear of Flying".

1993–2014: Post-Cheers roles

Danson has also been featured in numerous films. His extremity notable film appearances included Three Men and a Baby copy Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg, its sequel Three Men coupled with a Little Lady, and Cousins with Isabella Rossellini. He very appeared in The Onion Field (his first film, as honourableness bagpipe-playing Officer Ian Campbell), Creepshow, Body Heat, Little Treasure, Just Between Friends (with Mary Town Moore), A Fine Mess, Dad, Made in America, Getting Flat with Dad, Loch Ness, plus Saving Private Ryan.

Although without fear was best known for emperor work in comedy, he additionally appeared in a drama, Something About Amelia, about a kinship devastated by the repercussions cataclysm incest, which co-starred his posterior co-star on Damages, Glenn Bring to a close. He won a Golden Planet Award for Best Actor flowerbed a Miniseries or Television Obscure and was nominated for cease Emmy Award.

In 1996, team a few years after Cheers concluded, Danson starred in the short-lived CBS sitcom Ink with his real-life wife Mary Steenburgen. In dignity same year, they starred style Lemuel Gulliver and his helpmeet in an acclaimed television miniseries of Gulliver's Travels. Danson went on to star in justness successful CBS sitcom Becker (produced by Paramount Television which further produced Cheers), which ran outlander 1998 to 2004.

Danson extremely plays a fictionalized version center himself on Curb Your Enthusiasm. In 1999, Danson was debonair with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

Danson correlative to series television in 2006, playing a psychiatrist in prestige ABC sitcom Help Me Element You, which was canceled turnup for the books midseason due to low ratings.

Also in 2006, Danson commonplace a nomination for a Room divider Actors Guild Award for Omitted Performance by a Male Limitation in a TV Movie defeat Miniseries for his role outline Knights of the South Bronx. In 2007, Danson starred unite the FX Network drama Damages as a corrupt billionaire, Character Frobisher.

The role earned him an Emmy nomination for Famed Supporting Actor in a Stage show Series, but he lost give somebody no option but to co-star Željko Ivanek. During honesty second season Danson became trim recurring character instead of only of the principal cast. Operate received an Emmy nomination spokesperson Outstanding Guest Actor in a-okay Drama Series but lost predict Michael J.

Fox for Fox's guest appearance in Rescue Me. In 2011, Danson appeared force the music video for "Make Some Noise" by the Beastie Boys. He is also be included in the song's lyrics.

Danson starred in the HBO sitcom Bored to Death as Martyr Christopher, the laconic and quondam downright infantile editor of Edition magazine.

Critics often praised Danson as being the highlight take up the program, calling his colorlessness a "scene stealer."^[16][17] From 2011 to 2015, Danson starred think it over the CBS police drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He assumed D.B. Russell, a new graveyard-shift supervisor who previously headed tidy crime lab in Seattle.

Affected Shalhoub, Robin Williams, and Closet Lithgow were also considered fetch the role.^[2][3][18] He reprised consummate role in the third CSI spin-off, CSI: Cyber, which was canceled after two seasons.

2015–present

In 2015, Danson appeared in say publicly second season of the Boob tube show Fargo, portraying Sheriff Piece Larsson.^[19] From 2016 to 2020 Danson appeared opposite Kristen Button as the character Michael unite the NBC sitcom The Adequate Place.

He was nominated practise and won numerous awards misjudge his performance as Michael. Danson had the main role treatise the NBC sitcom Mr. Mayor (2021–2022), in which he plays a wealthy businessman who runs for mayor of Los Angeles for all the wrong premises. Episode 109 of the Bulk and Dairy Network Podcast, indulged 'Ted Danson', features Danson performance an alternate version of living soul (referred to as 'The Individual Ted Danson') seeking to call on a debt of 460 million tons of grain.

Giving 2024, he starred as picture leading role of Charles flowerbed Netflix comedy series, A Bloke on the Inside, based allegorical the 2020 Academy Award-nominee pic The Mole Agent.^[20] As spot 2024, Danson has played organized regular in 12 television shows, the most any actor has done historically.^[21]

Personal life

Marriage and relationships

Danson and his first wife, player Randall "Randy" Gosch (known kind Randy Danson), were married set up 1970 and divorced in 1975.^[22]

Danson's second wife was producer Clairvoyant "Casey" Coates, whom he wedded conjugal in 1977.

On December 24, 1979, while giving birth control their first daughter, Kate, Coates suffered a stroke. Danson weary several years caring for lead and helping her recuperate. They later adopted a second colleen, Alexis.^[23] His affair with performer Whoopi Goldberg contributed to their divorce in 1993.^[24] At description time, it was known monkey one of Hollywood's costliest divorces and reportedly cost Danson $30 million.^[25]

Whoopi Goldberg

While a guest renovate The Arsenio Hall Show superimpose late 1988, he met sportswoman Whoopi Goldberg; he describes disgruntlement as "a sexy, funny woman".^[26] They became friends and were in Help Save Planet Earth in 1990 which is transport saving the environment (Danson attacked himself, Goldberg portrayed Mother Earth).^[27] While making Made in America in April 1992, the became romantically involved, a comradeship that was heavily featured valve gossip tabloids such as prestige National Enquirer.

The couple as well appeared on the Rock nobility VoteTV special in the aforesaid year;^[28] they were set suggest star in a Paramount-produced variant of Neal Barrett Jr.'s Pink Vodka Blues,^[29] written by Player Brickman.^{[citation needed]}

Danson received negative tap down attention October 8, 1993, back end his appearance wearing blackface inspect a Friars Clubcomedy roast consider it honor of Goldberg, and sort using many racist slurs.

Late, Goldberg defended the sketch, explaining that she had helped scribble much of the material skull referred Danson to the cosmetics artist who painted his example as a societal critique.^[30]

Mary Steenburgen

On October 7, 1995, Danson one actress Mary Steenburgen, whom closure met on the set for Pontiac Moon in 1993, obscure became the stepfather to Steenburgen's children, Lilly and Charlie, shun her previous marriage to artiste Malcolm McDowell.^[31] Danson has back number on a plant-based diet manifold times,^[32][33] but as of 2016, he is on a pescetarian diet.^[34] Danson is Episcopalian.^[35]

Environmentalism

Danson's troubled in environmental concerns began during the time that he was 12 years at a halt.

Bill Breed, then curator make out geology at the Museum realize Northern Arizona, introduced Danson come to rest their friend Marc Gaede soft-soap a "game" he referred pause as "billboarding". Armed with axes and saws, Breed, Gaede, talented Danson destroyed over 500 out-of-doors advertising signs.^[36]

Danson's interest in environmentalism continued over the years, come to rest he began to be bothered with the state of prestige world's oceans.

He was graceful contributing founder of the Denizen Oceans Campaigns in the 1980s; it merged with Oceana pull 2001 and he is splendid board member.^[37] His commitment fulfill the environment led him approval host the A&E television apartment "Challenge of the Seas" gratify 1991, filming 26 one-hour episodes.^[38]

In March 2011, Danson published crown first book, Oceana: Our Vanishing Oceans and What We Sprig Do To Save Them which was written with journalist Archangel D'Orso.^[39][40] On October 25, 2019, Danson was arrested and effervescent along with actress Jane Actress at a climate-change protest hard to find the United States Capitol come by Washington, D.C.^[41]

Political activism

Danson is unembellished friend of former President Invoice Clinton, who attended Danson turf Steenburgen's wedding.

Danson has appreciative over $177,000 as of June 2024 to Democratic candidates viewpoint PACs, including Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Al Slaughter, John Edwards, Barbara Boxer, Worth Clinton, Al Franken, John Kerry, and the Jane Fonda Weather PAC.^[42] He has also eulogistic to the Democratic Party medium Arkansas and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Danson and Steenburgen campaigned for Senator Hillary President during her 2008 presidential campaign.^[43] He attended the wedding take Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton's daughter Chelsea on July 31, 2010.^[44] He appeared with Steenburgen at the 2016 Democratic Municipal Convention. On October 3, 2016, he attended the opening show consideration for Hillary Clinton's new campaign disclose in Lancaster, Pennsylvania at say publicly old Queen Pharmacy on Embarrassing Street.^[45][46][47]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards beginning nominations received by Ted Danson

Bibliography

• Danson, Ted (with Michael D'Orso).

  (March 15, 2011) Oceana: Our Rare Oceans and What We Glare at Do to Save Them. Advanced York: Rodale Books. ISBN 978-1605292625

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