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Eric McCormack

Eric McCormack

Birthday: 1963-04-18 | Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue

as    Kevin Anderson

2024
Remembering Gene Wilder

as    Self

2023
Guiding Emily

as    Garth

2023
The Other Black Girl

as    Richard Wagner

2022
Drinkwater

as    Hank Drinkwater

2021
The Baltimore Waltz

as    Carl

2019
Departure

as    Cole Banks

2017
Considering Love and Other Magic

as    Uncle Jasper

2017
Will & Grace

as    Will Truman

2016
Slasher

as    Basil Garvey

2016
The Architect

as    Colin

2016
Travelers

as    Grant MacLaren

2016
A Heavenly Christmas

as    Max

2013
Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story

as    Detective Sullivan

2013
Full Circle

as    Ken Waltham

2013
Knife Fight

as    Larry Becker

2012
Perception

as    Dr. Daniel Pierce

2012
Barricade

as    Terrance Shade

2011
Textuality

as    Clive

2010
Who Is Clark Rockefeller?

as    Clark Rockefeller

2010
Pound Puppies

as    Lucky (voice)

2009
My One and Only

as    Charlie

2009
Trust Me

as    Mason McGuire

2009
Alien Trespass

as    Ted Lewis / Urp

2008
The Andromeda Strain

as    Jack Nash

2008
The Andromeda Strain

as    Jack Nash

2005
The Sisters

as    Gary Sokol