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![]() Since 1995, Danson has been married to actress Mary Steenburgen, and in 1996 they starred together in Ink, a short-lived TV series set at a newspaper. Behind black greasepaint and huge puffy white lips, Danson delivered a risqué monologue (written by Goldberg) that angered some guests. ![]() While dating Goldberg, Danson also endured the biggest controversy of his career when he appeared in blackface at a Friar's Club roast for Goldberg. While filming the sperm-bank comedy Made in America, he became romantically entangled with co-star Whoopi Goldberg, which led to his 1993 divorce from Coates-Danson, and landed Danson on one magazine's list of "the ten highest divorce settlements". Danson, meanwhile, won two Emmys and two Golden Globes for his Cheers work. Midway through the show's long run, co-star Shelley Long left to pursue a film career (which seems to have gotten away), and she was replaced by Kirstie Alley. Visitors to the set were likely to be struck by spitballs fired by the actors. The program was an immediate success, and behind the scenes the atmosphere was casual. On Cheers, he played the skirt-chasing alcoholic bartender. After her recovery, Danson landed his first notable television roles, opposite Lee Remick in The Women’s Room, and starring with Christopher Lee in Once Upon a Spy. In 1979, his second wife, Casey Coates-Danson, suffered a stroke while giving birth to their first child, and Danson abandoned his burgeoning career for six months to care for her. In his film debut, he portrayed a bagpipe-playing cop in The Onion Field. Danson was "the Aramis Man" in ads, and in the mid-1970s he appeared on the daytime drama Somerset with Sigourney Weaver and JoBeth Williams. As a young actor, Danson did the usual auditions for commercials and soap operas, and met his first wife at one of weirdo Werner Erhard's EST seminars. ![]() He was born in California, but grew up near Flagstaff, Arizona with Hopi and Navajo children as his friends. Ted Danson is the prominent-jawed actor who played Sam Malone, the baseball star turned bartender on Cheers, from 1982-93.
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