Ted Danson
For 11 years, Danson starred as former pro-baseball player, ladies' man and bar proprietor Sam Malone in Paramount's classic series "Cheers." During the show's phenomenal run, he was Emmy-nominated nine times for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, winning in 1990 and 1993. He also garnered two Golden Globe awards for the role. Two seasons ago, he top-lined "Ink," which he executive produced with his wife, Mary Steenburgen. He also co-produced Paramount's comedy series "Down Home," which starred Judith Ivey. Recently, he has guest-starred on "Frasier," "Veronica's Closet," the season finale of "Ellen," and lent his voice to "The Simpsons."His other television credits include portraying Lemuel Gulliver in the critically-acclaimed mini-series "Gulliver's Travels," and also starring in this year's "Thanks of a Grateful Nation."
Additional telefilm credits include "The Women's Room," which he also produced, and the groundbreaking "Something About Amelia," for which he also won a Golden Globe Award.
In feature films, Danson has most recently been seen in "Saving Private Ryan," and the independent film "Homegrown," with such other credits as "Three Men and a Baby," "Three Men and a Little Lady," "Cousins," "Dad," "Made In America," "Pontiac Moon," "Getting Even with Dad," and the upcoming releases "Mumford," and "Jerry and Tom."
Born in San Diego and raised near Flagstaff, Ariz., Danson moved to California to attend Stanford University, where he became interested in drama during his second year. In 1972, he transferred to Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie-Mellon University). After graduating, he was hired as an understudy in an Off-Broadway production of "The Real Inspector Hound," and then played Tom Conway on the daytime drama "Somerset" from 1974-76. He moved to Los Angeles in 1978, landing the role in "Cheers" in 1982.
Danson is a founding member of the American Oceans Campaign (AOC), an organization established to alert Americans to the life-threatening hazards created by oil spills, off-shore development, toxic wastes, sewage pollution and other ocean abuses.
He lives with his family in Los Angeles.
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