Nick Bakay (born October 8, 1959) is an American actor, comedian, director, producer, sportscaster, voice actor, and writer. He is best known for portraying Salem Saberhagen, a once-powerful wizard cursed to live as the Spellmans' sarcastic pet cat as punishment for abusing his magic, in the TV show Sabrina the Teenage Witch (both the live-action sitcom that aired during ABC's TGIF line-up and the animated series that also aired on ABC, but aired on its One Saturday Morning line-up). He reprised the role in the Season 15 episode "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore".
Bakay was also a writer and infrequent performer on the FOX sketch show, In Living Color, often playing a commercial spokesman or the host of the Dirty Dozen game show, as well as the voice of Norbert on the Nickelodeon kids' show, The Angry Beavers.
