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Daniel J. Travanti

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Daniel J. Travanti Fast Facts:

Played football, was on the debate team and acted in plays while in high school.
Won a Wisconsin speech contest in dramatic declamation and lost in the national finals by one vote.
Turned down scholarship offers from Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth; attended the University of Wisconsin, where he appeared in all of the school's theater productions and graduated in three years.
An admitted overachiever, he appeared in four major productions during his one year at the Yale School of Drama and dropped out due to burnout.
In 1965, appeared with Colleen Dewhurst in a traveling production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Participated in NBC's mid-1980s "Don't Be a Dope" antidrug campaign.
Big break (and later two Emmys) came when he was cast as Capt. Frank Furillo on Hill Street Blues in 1981.

Daniel J. Travanti Relationships:
Elvira Travanti - Mother
John Travanti - Father
Emma Travanti - Sister
Laura Travanti - Sister
Angelo Travanti - Brother
Robert Travanti - Brother
Daniel J. Travanti Awards:
1982 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Winner
1983 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee
1984 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee
1985 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee
1986 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama - Nominee
1981 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Winner
1982 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Winner
1983 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
1984 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
1985 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Nominee
1984 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Special - Nominee
College:
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (BA); attended Yale University, School of Drama, New Haven, CT; Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA (MA in English Literature).