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As of 2018, has appeared in one film nominated for Best Picture Oscar (Saving Private Ryan (1998)).

He and Stephen Colbert are distant relatives, as revealed on the PBS series, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Puritans and Pioneers (2017).

He has played the same character (D. B. Russell) in three different series: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), CSI: NY (2004) and CSI: Cyber (2015).

Played Jason Ritter's father in Mumford (1999). His wife Mary Steenburgen played Ritter's mother in Joan of Arcadia (2003).

He and his wife, actress Mary Steenburgen, starred in and were executive producers of the CBS comedy series Ink (1996). Edward Bridge "Ted" Danson III was born in San Diego, California, to Jessica (MacMaster) and Edward Bridge Danson, Jr. , who was an archaeologist and museum director. He has English, Scottish, and some German, ancestry. He was raised just outside Flagstaff, Ariz. Danson attended Stanford University, where he became interested in drama during his second year.

He later starred in the mini-series Gulliver's Travels (1996) and Thanks of a Grateful Nation (1998).

President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton attended his 1995 wedding to Mary Steenburgen. Steenburgen had personally known Clinton since he was governor of Arkansas when she resided in Little Rock. The President celebrated his 51st birthday at the Martha's Vineyard home of the couple.

During the show's 11-year run, he was nominated nine times for an Emmy Award as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and won twice, in 1990 and 1993.

The role also earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 1989 and 1990.

Father of actress Kate Danson and Alexis Danson (adopted 1987).

In 1986, he made his debut as a television producer with When the Bough Breaks (1986), in which he also starred.

In 1984, Danson received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in the television movie Something About Amelia (1984), in which he starred opposite Glenn Close.

Ted Danson is well known for his role as Sam Malone in the television series Cheers (1982).

He also starred opposite Lee Remick in The Women's Room (1980).

" Danson moved to Los Angeles in 1978 and studied with Dan Fauci at the Actor's Institute, where he also taught classes. Danson lives with his family in Los Angeles. He 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, offshore development, toxic wastes, sewage pollution and other ocean abuses.

In 1972, he transferred to Carnegie-Mellon University (formerly Carnegie Tech) in Pittsburgh. After graduation, he was hired as an understudy in Tom Stoppard's Off Broadway production of "The Real Inspector Hound.

Graduated from Kent School in 1966, the same high school Peter Farrelly, Sebastian Siegel, Treat Williams and Seth MacFarlane attended.