Eric McCormack

Eric James McCormack born April 18 1963 height 5 11 180 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 Girls He starred in the television miniseries 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia