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Eric McCormack

Eric McCormack

Birthday: 1963-04-18 | Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Eric James McCormack (born April 18, 1963, height 5' 11" (1,80 m)) is a Canadian American actor, musician, writer and producer. Born in Toronto, he began his acting career performing in school plays at Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute High School. He left Ryerson University in 1985, in order to accept a position with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where he spent five years performing in numerous play productions. For much of the late 1990s, he lived in Los Angeles and had minor roles. He made his feature film debut in the 1992 science fiction The Lost World. McCormack appeared in multiple television series roles, including Top Cops, Street Justice, Lovesome Dove: The Series, Townies, and Ally McBeal. McCormack later gained worldwide recognition for playing Will Truman in the American sitcom Will & Grace, which premiered in September 1998. His performance earned him an Emmy Award in the category for Best 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 mini-series 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric McCormack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Drinkwater

as    Hank Drinkwater

2021
The Baltimore Waltz

as    Carl

2017
Will & Grace

as    Will Truman

2016
Travelers

as    Grant MacLaren

2016
A Heavenly Christmas

as    Max

2013
Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story

as    Detective Sullivan

2013
Full Circle

as    Ken Waltham

2012
Perception

as    Dr. Daniel Pierce

2012
Barricade

as    Terrance Shade

2011
Textuality

as    Clive

2009
My One and Only

as    Charlie

2009
Trust Me

as    Mason McGuire

2008
The Andromeda Strain

as    Jack Nash

2008
The Andromeda Strain

as    Jack Nash

2005
The Sisters

as    Gary Sokol

2005
Break a Leg

as    Tad

2000
The Audrey Hepburn Story

as    Mel Ferrer

1998
Free Enterprise

as    Mark

1998
Will & Grace

as    Will Truman

1997
Borrowed Hearts

as    Sam Field

1997
Exception to the Rule

as    Timothy Bayer

1995
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years

as    Col. Francis Clay Mosby

1994
Lonesome Dove: The Series

as    Col. Francis Clay Mosby

1994
Island City

as    Greg 23

1994
The Man Who Wouldn't Die

as    Jack Sullivan

1993
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

as    Don Farmer

1992
Return to the Lost World

as    Edward Malone

1992
The Lost World

as    Edward Malone

1991
Street Justice

as    Eric Rothman