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Dylan McDermott

Age: 48
Height: 6'

Birth Place: Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
Born: Oct. 26th, 1961

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Dylan McDermott's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Big Shots	Duncan Collin&hellip
Dark Blue	Lt. Carter Shaw
The Practice	Bobby Donnell
The Grid	FBI Agent Max&hellip

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Dylan is the son of Diane and Richard "Mac" McDermott. Diane was only 15 and Mac was 17 when Dylan was born. Mac earned money by hustling pool. During Dylan's early years, his parents separated. In 1967, when Dylan was five, his mother was accidentally shot and killed by her live-in boyfriend, who was reportedly cleaning his gun when it went off. Dylan and his sister Robin, who was then six months old, were taken in by their grandmother, Avis Marino. When Dylan was 15, his father met and married playwright/activist Eve Ensler. Eve adopted Dylan. Eve encouraged him to go to acting school and Fordham University in New York City.

He met his now ex-wife, Shiva Rose, at a coffee shop in Venice, California, on the same day he got his first big acting break by being cast in the film In the Line of Fire (1993) with Clint Eastwood. As a result of his connection with Eastwood, Dylan attended a dinner honoring Clint. There he met Jeffrey Kramer (I), a man who used to frequent a bar where Dylan had earlier worked. Kramer was at that time the president of David E. Kelley Productions. He asked Dylan to meet David Kelly for an upcoming series about lawyers, "The Practice" (1997), and the rest was history. Another mentor of Dylan is Joanne Woodward (I), who discovered him while he was doing workshops at the Neighborhood Playhouse.

TRIVIA:

(1998) Chosen by People Magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
His former stepmother, 'Eve Ensler' (qv), isn't only an actress. She is also a playwright and women's rights activist, as well. She wrote the famed play The Vagina Monologues.
Studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC under Sandford Meisner.
Dylan's mother died when he was 5. Fourteen years later, his dad, Richard, owner of Manhattan's West 4th St Saloon, married 'Eve Ensler' (qv).
His ex-wife, 'Shiva Rose' (qv), is Iranian/French.
Majored in drama at Fordham University and studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC under 'Sanford Meisner' (qv).
Ex-son-in-law of 'Parviz Gharib-Afshar' (qv).
He took the name Dylan out of respect to his stepmother who was pregnant with a boy she named Dylan, but had a miscarriage.