Eric McCormack
Known For
Acting
Born
1963-04-18 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biography
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.
Most Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Vance Shepard
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
American Dad!
as Swinger (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
Monk
as James Novak
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
The View
as Self
The Colbert Report
as Self
Will & Grace
as Will Truman
Diagnosis: Murder
as Boyd Merrick
American Idol
as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
The Jennifer Hudson Show
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
Hell's Kitchen
as Self - Restaurant Patron
The Outer Limits
as John Virgil
Highlander: The Series
as Matthew McCormick
The Hunting Party
as Ron Simms