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Dylan McDermott
Age: 48
Height: 6'
Birth Place: Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
Born: Oct. 26th, 1961
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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.
- Majored in drama at Fordham University and studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC under 'Sanford Meisner' (qv).
- Hosted VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Rock and Roll.
- He jokes about the fact that he is often confused with actor/musician 'Dermot Mulroney' (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.
- Ex-son-in-law of 'Parviz Gharib-Afshar' (qv).
- Dated 'Julia Roberts (I)' (qv) during and after filming _Steel Magnolias (1989)_ (qv)
- Two daughters with his now ex-wife, 'Shiva Rose' (qv): Colette, born in May, 1996, and Charlotte Rose, born September 8, 2005.
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