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Eric McCormack

Acting

Born April 18, 1963 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Also known as اریک مک‌کورمک

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.

Awards & recognition

  • Canada's Walk of Fame · 2010
  • GLAAD Vanguard Award · 2003
  • Primetime Emmy AwardOutstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series · 2001
  • Emmy Award
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Filmography50+ titles

Love, Again

2026as Leo

Mood Indigo

1993as Stu Feltzer

Guiding Emily

2023as Garth

Atypical

2017as Professor Shinerock

Monk

2002as James Novak

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999as Vance Shepard

Dead Like Me

2003as Ray Summers

The Outer Limits

1995as John Virgil

Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe

2023as Self

Travelers

2016as Grant MacLaren

Highlander: The Series

1992as Matthew McCormick

Remembering Gene Wilder

2023as Self

Lego Masters

2020as Self

Perception

2012as Dr. Daniel Pierce

The Graham Norton Show

2007as Self

The Hunting Party

2025as Ron Simms

The New Adventures of Old Christine

2006as Dr. Max Kershaw

Diagnosis: Murder

1993as Boyd Merrick

Call Of The Wild

1993as Hal

The Commish

1991

The Mysteries of Laura

as Dr. Andrew Devlin

American Dad!

2005as Swinger (voice)

The Colbert Report

2005as Self

Will & Grace

1998as Will Truman

Saturday Night Live

1975as Self - Host

Hell's Kitchen

2005as Self - Restaurant Patron

Elsbeth

2024as Tom Murphy

Slasher

2016as Basil Garvey

My One and Only

2009as Charlie

Departure

2019as Cole Banks

Ally McBeal

1997as Kevin Kepler

Borrowed Hearts

1997as Sam Field

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2019as Self

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

1993as Don Farmer

Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue

2025as Kevin Anderson

The Other Black Girl

2023as Richard Wagner

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

2017as Self (voice)

Family of Strangers

1993as Sam

The Andromeda Strain

2008as Jack Nash

A Heavenly Christmas

2016as Max

The Audrey Hepburn Story

2000as Mel Ferrer

Drinkwater

2022as Hank Drinkwater

The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale

2018as Self - Special Guest

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014as Self

Return to the Lost World

1992as Edward Malone

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

2003as Self

The Jennifer Hudson Show

Pound Puppies

as Lucky (voice)

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014as Self

Holy Man

1998as Scott Hawkes