Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1967-09-11 (Age: 59)
Place of Birth
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Harry Connick Jr.
Biography
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, actor, composer and pianist. Connick has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. He is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million certified albums. He has seven top-20 U.S. albums, and ten number-one U.S. jazz albums, earning more number-one albums than any other artist in the US jazz chart history. Connick's best selling album in the United States is his 1993 Christmas album When My Heart Finds Christmas, which also is one of the best selling Christmas albums in the United States. His highest charting album, is his 2004 release Only You which reached #5 in the U.S. and #6 in Britain. He has won three Grammy awards and one Emmy Award. He played Grace's husband Dr. Leo Markus on the TV sitcom Will & Grace from 2002 to 2006. Connick began his acting career as a tail gunner in the World War II film Memphis Belle in 1990. He played a serial killer in Copycat in 1995, before being cast as jet fighter pilot in the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day. Connick's first role as a leading man was in 1998's Hope Floats with Sandra Bullock. His first thriller film since Copycat came in 2007, when he played the violent ex-husband in Bug, before two romantic comedies, 2007's P.S. I Love You, and the leading man in New in Town with Renée Zellweger in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry Connick Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (59)
Find Me Falling
2024
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024
Annie Live!
2021
Fear of Rain
2021
Royal Variety Performance 2019
2019
Impractical Jokers: The Staten Island Holiday Spectacular
2018
The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
2016
The Original Image of Divine Mercy
2016
Sinatra 100: An All-Star Grammy Concert
2015
Dolphin Tale 2
2014
Angels Sing
2013
Piaf: Hymnes à la Môme
2013
Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker
2013
Dolphin Tale
2011
