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Profile of George Wendt
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Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
George Robert Wendt (born October 17, 1948) is an American actor best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the long-running television show Cheers.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin (the same school attended by Vicente Fox, Congressman Leo Ryan, and Wisconsin governor Patrick Lucey). He was kicked out of University of Notre Dame after a lack of studying resulted in a semester with a 0.00 GPA. He was more successful at the Jesuit Rockhurst College, where after applying himself, he graduated with a B.A. in Economics.
He is also an alumnus of The Second City, where he met his future wife, Bernadette Birkett, who was to later play the voice of Norm's wife Vera on Cheers.
In 1989 Wendt appeared as the eponymous protagonist in a BBC TV dramatization of Ivan Goncharov's novel Oblomov. He has also appeared several times on the British edition of Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
In January 2006, Wendt will be seen again on television screens as part of the cast of Modern Men.
External link
- IMDb Profile of George Wendt
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