Dan Finnerty
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Dan Finnerty is an American stage and film actor.
Finnerty was born in 1970 in Rochester, NY. He grew up in the small town of Bath, NY and attended Emerson College in Boston. He was a member of the hit show "Stomp in New York City.
On August 8, 1998 he married actress Kathy Najimy. Feminist icon Gloria Steinem officiated the cermony. The couple have one daughter.
He created and is the lead singer of the cult hit group The Dan Band. His Los Angeles show "Dan Finnerty & The Dan Band:I Am Woman" was recently filmed as a one hour concert special, directed by McG and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. It recently aired on Cable TV's Bravo channel.
Steven Spielberg cast him in "The Terminal", and Todd Phillips cast him as the sleazy Bat Mitzvah singer in "Starsky & Hutch". Finnerty is best known for his foul-mouthed rendition of Total Eclipse of the Heart as the wedding singer at Will Ferrell's wedding in the hit movie Old School, also directed by Todd Phillips. His band has a cd: "The Dan Band Live".
