Eric McCormack | |
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 McCormack at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Knife Fight | |
| Born | Eric James McCormack April 18, 1963 |
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| Years active | 1986–present |
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Janet Holden
(m. 1997; sep. 2023) |
| Children | 1 |
Eric James McCormack (born April 18, 1963[2]) is a Canadian and American actor known for his roles as Will Truman in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, Grant MacLaren in Netflix's Travelers, and Dr. Daniel Pierce in the TNT crime drama Perception. Born in Toronto, McCormack started acting by performing in high school plays. He left Ryerson University in 1985 to accept a position with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where he spent five years performing in many stage productions.
During the late 1990s he lived in Los Angeles and had minor roles. He made his feature film debut in the 1992 science-fiction adventure film The Lost World. McCormack appeared in several television series including Top Cops, Street Justice, Lonesome Dove: The Series, Townies, and Ally McBeal. He later gained worldwide recognition for playing Will Truman in Will & Grace, which premiered in September 1998. His performance has earned him six Golden Globe nominations and four Emmy nominations, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2001.
Aside from appearing in television, he made his Broadway debut in the 2001 production of The Music Man and starred in the 2005 film The Sisters. Following the series conclusion of Will & Grace in 2006, McCormack starred as the leading role in the New York production of Some Girl(s). He starred in the television miniseries The Andromeda Strain (2008) and returned to television in 2009 in the TNT drama Trust Me, which was cancelled after one season.
Also in 2009, McCormack was cast in the science-fiction movie Alien Trespass. In addition, he starred as Dr. Daniel Pierce for three seasons of the TNT crime drama Perception, and provided the voice of "Lucky" on The Hub's Pound Puppies. From 2009 to 2010 he starred as Dr. Max Kershaw, the psychiatrist turned boyfriend of Julia Louis-Dreyfus' title character in The New Adventures of Old Christine. In 2021, McCormack joined the cast of Departure.[3] In 2023, he performed on Broadway in The Cottage.[4]
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- ^ "Eric McCormack's Super-Sexy 50th Birthday Bash". Team Coco. July 30, 2013. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021 – via YouTube.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (October 16, 2021). "Eric McCormack Joins 'Departure' as Canadian Series Starts Production on Season 3". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
- ^ "Fox5NY The Cottage". Accessed 07/24/2023.