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88 SAG-AFTRA | Fall 2018 | sagaftra.org Alda sweeps Goldie Hawn off her feet in Woody Allen's 1996 Everyone Says I Love You. The West Wing, with Jimmy Smits, brought Alda his sixth Emmy Award, in 2006, for his portrayal of California Republican Senator Arnold Vinick, and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. nominations and more. He is one of only six people to receive Oscar, Tony and Emmy nominations in the same year. The multi-hyphenate's on-screen career extends beyond acting. In 1993, he took over as host of Scientific American Frontiers and continued the PBS series as Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers through 2005. Alda's work on the show, interviewing guests and helping broaden the public's understanding of science, furthered his interest in developing ways to help people learn how to communicate better. Alda has written three bestselling books. His latest is If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating. He also helped found the nonprofit Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University in New York, which has trained more than 12,000 scientists and medical professionals in this country and abroad. He also recently launched Alda Communications Training, a company with a mission to develop the qualities of authenticity, clarity and empathy as the foundation of powerful communication. Both the center and the training techniques focus on helping STEM and medical professionals communicate clearly. His most recent venture is the Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda podcast series, in which Alda interviews prominent people who are experts in communication. His unpredictable guest list includes an FBI hostage negotiator, a Nobel Prize winner, actors, authors and comedians. Throughout an impressive career, every step of the way Alda has used his fame and influence to promote justice, improve communication and educate, with an eye on making the world a better place. And through it all, he has remained thankful for his union. "I personally need safeguards because when the camera is rolling, I think I'm magically protected and I do dangerous things. I once rode a bicycle into oncoming traffic on Fifth Avenue because I thought it would help the shot. But even sane people need safeguards," he said. In the 2002 "Make Up Your Mind" episode of Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers, posing with the skull of Phineas Gage, who survived a freak railroad work accident with an iron rod in 1848. The National Academy of Sciences presented Alda with its Public Welfare Medal in 2016. NAS's then- President Ralph J. Cicerone and Home Secretary, Susan R. Wessler on his left and right. NBC/PHOTOFEST © NBC COURTESY NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE MIRAMAX/PHOTOFEST © MIRAMAX GRAHAM CHEDD