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Dan Cortese is a Actor American born on 14 september 1967 at Sewickley (USA)

Dan Cortese

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Birth name Daniel James Cortese
Nationality USA
Birth 14 september 1967 (56 years) at Sewickley (USA)

Daniel James "Dan" Cortese (born September 14, 1967) is an American actor, director and spokesperson. He is known for his roles as Perry Rollins on Veronica's Closet and as Vic Meladeo on What I Like About You.

Biography

Early life
Cortese was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. He is of Sicilian descent. Prior to becoming an actor, he was a walk-on member of the University of North Carolina football team as a backup quarterback. His freshman year the team went to the Aloha Bowl. He never played a down. He graduated with a B.A. in Broadcasting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


Career
Cortese first came to prominence as team coach of The Bricklayers on MTV Rock N' Jock and host of MTV Sports from 1992 to 1997. In 1994, he co-starred on the short-lived CBS police drama Traps with George C. Scott. He gained further recognition in 1995 as Jess Hanson in Melrose Place. He played Jake Hanson's half brother for 8 episodes in the third season but was killed off in that season's finale. He had the main role as Jason in the 1996 movie The Lottery. He had starring roles in the 1993 remake/sequel of Route 66, Traps, The Single Guy, Veronica's Closet (in which he played Perry for three seasons), Rock Me Baby and Ball & Chain. Cortese appeared in the NBC television series Seinfeld, where he played Tony, Elaine's ultra-cool, vapid, good-looking boyfriend. In the episode, entitled "The Stall", he was dubbed a "mimbo" (a male bimbo). He was also featured in The WB television series What I Like About You in a recurring role as Vic, Val's boss, from 2002 to 2003 a role he reprised as a series regular from 2005 to 2006 during the fourth and final season, which he directed one episode and in two episodes of 8 Simple Rules in 2004, playing Bridget's tennis coach. He has also starred in the natural horror film Locusts: The 8th Plague.

During Burger King's "Your Way, Right Away" advertising campaign during the 1990s, Cortese was hired as the fast-food company's official spokesperson.

He was the host of My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad, which aired on NBC for one season before being cancelled. Dan then appeared on the first season of Superstars as the partner of Lisa Leslie.

In 2008, Cortese landed a role in Soccer Mom as a famous Italian soccer player alongside Emily Osment.

He was the co-host of the ABC game show, Crash Course (which was canceled after 4 episodes) and hosts VH-1's Money Hungry.

Cortese was a guest-star on the Hot in Cleveland episode (#3.8) entitled 'God and Football' playing Jimmy Armstrong.

In 2013, Cortese serves as the host of truTV's Guinness World Records Unleashed. The series debuted on February 7, 2013.

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Filmography of Dan Cortese (9 films)

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Soccer Mom
Soccer Mom (2008)
, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors Missi Pyle, Emily Osment, Cassie Scerbo, Elon Gold, Dan Cortese, Jennifer Sciole
Roles Lorenzo Vincenzo
Rating50% 2.509982.509982.509982.509982.50998
A warm-hearted comedy about a compulsive soccer mom who masquerades as a famous Italian soccer star hired to coach her daughter's floundering soccer team, the Mar Vista Galaxy, then struggles frantically to keep her wacky charade going long enough to see the girls win their big tournament.
Everybody Wants to Be Italian, 1h45
Directed by Jason Todd Ipson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Cerina Vincent, John Kapelos, John Enos III, Marisa Petroro, Richard Libertini, Perry Anzilotti
Roles Michael
Rating57% 2.8604252.8604252.8604252.8604252.860425
Jake Bianski is the owner of a fish market in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. For the past eight years he actively has pursued his former girlfriend Isabella, despite the fact she is married and has three children.
The Triangle, 1h32
Directed by Lewis Teague
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Luke Perry, Dan Cortese, Olivia D'Abo, Polly Shannon, David Hewlett, Dorian Harewood
Roles Tommy Devane
Rating47% 2.3565752.3565752.3565752.3565752.356575
Three high school buddies, Stu (Luke Perry), Tommy (Dan Cortese) and Gus (David Hewlett), decide to go on a pleasure cruise through the Bermuda Triangle. Stu's fiancee, Julia (Polly Shannon), insists on attending.
After Sex
After Sex (2000)
, 1h36
Directed by Cameron Thor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Dan Cortese, Virginia Madsen, Brooke Shields, Maria Pitillo, Johnathon Schaech, D. B. Sweeney
Roles John
Rating45% 2.272652.272652.272652.272652.27265
A group of attractive women get together for a weekend of bonding, hoping to relax and get away from the anxiety of their boyfriends. The women travel out of town, which leads them to picking up men of questionable integrity. The next problem is what they will tell their boyfriends when they get back home.
Public Enemies, 1h35
Directed by Mark L. Lester
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Theresa Russell, Eric Roberts, Alyssa Milano, James Marsden, Richard Eden, Joseph Lindsey
Roles Melvin Purvis
Rating42% 2.1133152.1133152.1133152.1133152.113315
Sexually abused by her brothers, Kate Barker runs away to become involved in bootlegging. She marries decent George Barker and gives birth to four sons, Herman, Arthur ("Doc"), Lloyd and Freddie. However, when George's law-abiding ways fail to provide for the family, "Ma" encourages her sons to commit crimes. Soon they become notorious criminals. FBI leader, J Edgar Hoover puts agent Melvin Purvis on the case. Meanwhile Alvin Karpis joins the gang. An attempted robbery leaves one Barker son, Herman, dead, and another Freddie, captured. Arthur Dunlop, a corrupt prison guard, helps Freddie escape and becomes Ma's lover. Dunlop plans a kidnapping that will net them $100,000, but it nearly goes wrong because of his incompetence. The gang kill him. They also kill another incompetent associate, a mob-doctor who messes up an attempt at plastic surgery. By this time Purvis is onto them. Lloyd and Arthur are arrested in Chicago, and Ma and Freddie are killed in a shootout in Florida.
The Lottery, 1h40
Directed by Daniel Sackheim
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Actors Keri Russell, Dan Cortese, Veronica Cartwright, Sean Murray, Stephen Root, William Daniels
Roles Jason Smith
Rating59% 2.950712.950712.950712.950712.95071
Le père de Jason Smith, sur son lit de mort, lui fait promettre de disperser ses cendres sur la tombe de sa femme, la mère de Jason, morte alors que Jason était encore très jeune. Jason accepte cette requête et doit de ce fait retourner dans le village natal de sa mère, là où elle est enterrée, là où il a lui-même vécu ses premières années mais dont il n'a presque plus aucun souvenir, ayant déménagé avec son père, à la suite de la mort de sa mère. Alors qu'il est dans le cimetière pour accomplir sa promesse, il remarque avec étonnement que presque toutes les tombes indiquent une date de décès identique, le même jour, le même mois, mais avec une année d'écart à chaque fois. Face à cette étonnante constatation, il fouille dans sa mémoire et lui revient alors un souvenir flou d'une loterie particulière qui se tenait dans ce village…
Demolition Man, 1h55
Directed by Marco Brambilla
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Sports films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Films set in the future, Martial arts films, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films, Chase films
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt, Bob Gunton
Roles Taco Bell Entertainer
Rating67% 3.350033.350033.350033.350033.35003
In 1996, psychopathic career criminal Simon Phoenix kidnaps a number of hostages and takes refuge with his gang in an abandoned building. LAPD Sgt. John Spartan uses a thermal scan of the building and finds no trace of the hostages, and leads an unauthorized assault to capture Phoenix. When he is captured, Phoenix sets off a series of explosives that bring down the building, and when the police search the wreckage, they find the corpses of the hostages. Spartan is charged with manslaughter, and he is incarcerated along with Phoenix in the city's new "California Cryo-Penitentiary", where they will be cryogenically frozen. During their time "in deep freeze", they are to be rehabilitated through subconscious conditioning.
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain
Directed by Graeme Campbell
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Dan Cortese, Cynthia Gibb, Brian Kerwin, Don S. Davis, Lynda Boyd
Roles Peter Slater
Rating46% 2.318112.318112.318112.318112.31811
Vulcanologist Peter Slater Dan Cortese, studying elevated steam-activity on Angel Mountain, finds evidence of an impending eruption such as many animals lying dead for no apparent reason. His ex-girlfriend Kelly Adams, a resident of the eponymous town, is told about his findings—which unfortunately, happen to be during the peak tourist season. Kelly tries in vain to warn the townsfolk and council of the danger, but they fail to heed and evacuate—until the mountain shows ashfall. After several attempts to find a solution, Peter declares that the lava is soon going to come down like "a liquid avalanche" which gives Kelly the idea (due to Angel Mountain and some others nearby being snowcapped) of using a snow avalanche to stop the lava flow—at which Peter balks, until Kelly tells him of the lack of other albernatives. The two then set out skiing to planting explosives to set off a controlled avalanche to stop the flow—but in attempting to escape the resulting avalanche Peter gets buried and Kelly makes it into town to witness the result, the snow avalanche blocking off (and solidifying) the lava-flow. At that point, Peter manages to dig himself out and return to town, after which he and Kelly rekindle their romance.