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George Robert Wendt (born October 17, 1948) is an
United States|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 Jesuit High School in Prairie du Chien,
Wisconsin|Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin (the same
school attended by Vicente Fox).  He was kicked
out of University of Notre Dame after a lack of
studying resulted in a semester with a 0.00 Grade
(education)|GPA.  He was more successful at the
Jesuit Rockhurst University|Rockhurst College,
where after applying himself, he graduated with a
Bachelor of Arts|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?.

==External link==

* http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001841/ IMDb Profile
of George Wendt