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Actor David Hedison grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, as the son of Armenian immigrants. In 2005 he recorded a conversation with his youngest daughter, Serena, at the flagship StoryCorps booth at Grand Central Terminal, StoryCorps reported.

There, he spoke candidly for the first time about how he got cosmetic surgery—a nose job—as a young man in order to achieve his dream of becoming an actor. He died in 2019 at the age of 92. Recently his daughters, Serena and Alex, came back to StoryCorps to reflect on the secret he shared, and the legacy he left behind.

“I wanted to be an actor, but I realized it was going to be a battle because I had a very ‘Armenian’ nose, and in those days to get a job you had to have the boy-next-door face,” David Hedison had said in the interview. The actor's older daughter, Serena, reflecting on the interview given by her father years ago, said: “I was really surprised because we never talked about it as a family. My recollection of realizing that something was different was seeing older photos of him at Grandma’s house, and thinking like, ‘Wait a second. That’s dad?’ And even then I thought, ‘Well, maybe he grew out of his nose, too, like he said that I’m gonna do.’ Years prior, I was 12. And I guess I had spent a lot of time looking at myself in the mirror. And all I could see was my nose. And I remember asking dad, like, ‘Dad, can I have a nose job?’ He never in that moment said, ‘I didn’t like the way I looked once, too.’ He just laughed and said, ‘Oh, honey, you got a terrific nose.’ There was something about how he said, ‘You’re going to be okay.’ And I never thought about getting a nose job after that moment.”

David Hedison’s younger daughter, Alex, noted that she also inherited her father's nose. “I see dad in my face. He’s in my gesture, like the way I move my hand and the way I’ll make a dumb joke or try to make someone laugh because I want them to feel seen,” Alex said.

David Hedison’s full name was Albert David Heditsian, and both of his parents were Armenians. He had a prolific career as a television, film, and stage actor. Most notably, he starred in the American sci-fi television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea from the 1960s and was cast in two James Bond movies (Live and Let Die, 1973 and License to Kill, 1989).

Photos: Variety, StoryCorps

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