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Eric McCormack

Eric McCormackBorn: 18-Apr-1963
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Will Truman on Will & Grace

Eric McCormack spent five years performing with Canada's Stratford Festival, then moved to Hollywood in 1990 to further pursue his career. He met his future wife, Janet Holden, on the set of Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years in 1995, where she was an assistant director. In 1998 he became known as gay lawyer Will Truman on TV's Will & Grace; McCormack was half of the first network TV man-on-man kiss when, in an episode of Will and Grace, his "Will" kissed "Jack", played by Sean Hayes (in front of Al Roker on The Today Show).

Father: Keith McCormack (retired from Shell Oil)
Wife: Janet Leigh Holden McCormack (film industry, m. 1997, one son)
Son: Finnigan Holden McCormack (b. 1-Jul-2002)

    University: Banff School of Fine Arts
    University: Ryerson University School of Theatre, Toronto (dropped out)

    TELEVISION
    Pound Puppies Lucky (2010-)
    Trust Me Mason McGuire (2009)
    Will & Grace Will Truman (1998-2006)
    Dead Like Me Ray Summers (2004)
    Townies Scott (1996)
    Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years Clay Mosby (1995-96)
    Lonesome Dove: The Series Clay Mosby (1994-1995)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Barricade (25-Sep-2012) · Terrance Shade
    Knife Fight (25-Apr-2012)
    Textuality (22-Apr-2011)
    My One and Only (12-Feb-2009) · Charlie
    Alien Trespass (Jan-2009) · Dr. Ted Lewis, and Urp
    The Andromeda Strain (11-May-2008)
    The Sisters (23-Apr-2005) · Gary Sokol
    Break a Leg (14-Apr-2005)
    The Audrey Hepburn Story (27-Mar-2000)
    Holy Man (9-Oct-1998)
    Free Enterprise (7-Oct-1998)
    Borrowed Hearts (30-Nov-1997) · Sam Field
    The Man Who Wouldn't Die (29-May-1995)
    Island City (2-Mar-1994)
    Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (30-Oct-1993) · Don Farmer
    Call of the Wild (25-Apr-1993)
    Return to the Lost World (1992)
    Giant Steps (1992)
    The Lost World (1992) · Edward Malone

Official Website:
http://www.ericmccormack.com/


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