Who is Dan Hedaya, Carlos’s ex husband in Cheers?

Dan Hedaya has appeared in several TV roles, including Carla Tortelli’s ex-husband Nick on the sitcom Cheers and its short-lived spinoff The Tortellis.

Dan Hedaya studied acting at HB Studio in New York City.  He worked as a junior high school teacher for several years before pursuing acting full-time.

Dan Hedaya played Julian Marty in the first Coen Brothers film, Blood Simple, and appeared in several episodes of the television series Hill Street Blues.

Dan Hedaya has established himself as a supporting actor and is usually seen playing sleazy villains. Hedaya played the estranged father of Mallory Keaton’s boyfriend, Nick, on the sitcom Family Ties.

Dan Hedaya also played an Italian-American priest in the NBC series The Book of Daniel. Hedaya portrayed the long-lost father of Adrian Monk on Monk.

Dan Hedaya played the evil dictator and the secondary antagonist Arius in 1985’s Commando and Mel Horowitz, the father of Alicia Silverstone’s Cher, in the 1995 film Clueless.