Alan Alda (/ˈÉ'Ë ldÉ™/; born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January , )
is an American actor, director, screenwriter, comedian, and author. A
six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he played Hawkeye
Pierce in the war television series M*A*S*H (â€"). He has had
recurring roles on television programs such as The West Wing, and
Rock, and has appeared in films such as Same Time, Next Year (), The
Four Seasons (), Crimes and Misdemeanors (), Flirting with Disaster
(), Bridge of Spies (), and Marriage Story (). In , Alda was nominated
for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in The Aviator. He is
also known as Uncle Pete in Louis C.K.'s Peabody Awardâ€"winning
tragicomedy web series Horace and Pete. Alda has also received three
Tony Award nominations for his performances in The Apple Tree (),
Jake's Women (), and Glengarry Glen Ross (). In , Alda received the
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.Alda was born Alphonso
Joseph D'Abruzzo on January , in the Bronx, New York City. Alda spent
his childhood with his parents travelling around the United States in
support of his father's job as a performer in burlesque theatres. His
father Robert Alda (born Alfonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo)
was an actor and singer, and his mother Joan Browne was a homemaker
and former beauty-pageant winner. His father was of Italian descent
and his mother was of Irish ancestry. His adopted surname, "Alda", is
a portmanteau of ALfonso and D'Abruzzo.When Alda was seven years old,
he contracted polio. To combat the disease, his parents administered a
painful treatment regimen developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny,
consisting of applying hot woolen blankets to his limbs and stretching
his muscles. Alda attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White
Plains, New York. In , he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in
English from Fordham University in the Bronx, where he was a student
staff member of its FM radio station, WFUV. Alda's half-brother,
Antony Alda, born that year (), also became an actor.
is an American actor, director, screenwriter, comedian, and author. A
six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he played Hawkeye
Pierce in the war television series M*A*S*H (â€"). He has had
recurring roles on television programs such as The West Wing, and
Rock, and has appeared in films such as Same Time, Next Year (), The
Four Seasons (), Crimes and Misdemeanors (), Flirting with Disaster
(), Bridge of Spies (), and Marriage Story (). In , Alda was nominated
for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in The Aviator. He is
also known as Uncle Pete in Louis C.K.'s Peabody Awardâ€"winning
tragicomedy web series Horace and Pete. Alda has also received three
Tony Award nominations for his performances in The Apple Tree (),
Jake's Women (), and Glengarry Glen Ross (). In , Alda received the
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.Alda was born Alphonso
Joseph D'Abruzzo on January , in the Bronx, New York City. Alda spent
his childhood with his parents travelling around the United States in
support of his father's job as a performer in burlesque theatres. His
father Robert Alda (born Alfonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo)
was an actor and singer, and his mother Joan Browne was a homemaker
and former beauty-pageant winner. His father was of Italian descent
and his mother was of Irish ancestry. His adopted surname, "Alda", is
a portmanteau of ALfonso and D'Abruzzo.When Alda was seven years old,
he contracted polio. To combat the disease, his parents administered a
painful treatment regimen developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny,
consisting of applying hot woolen blankets to his limbs and stretching
his muscles. Alda attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White
Plains, New York. In , he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in
English from Fordham University in the Bronx, where he was a student
staff member of its FM radio station, WFUV. Alda's half-brother,
Antony Alda, born that year (), also became an actor.
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