Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1963-04-18 (Age: 63)
Place of Birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Eric McCormack
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.
Filmography (44)
Love, Again
2026
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024
Guiding Emily
2023
Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make Believe
2023
Drinkwater
2022
The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks
2022
The Baltimore Waltz
2021
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
2020
Considering Love and Other Magic
2017
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
2017
A Heavenly Christmas
2016
The Architect
2016
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows
2016
Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story
2013
