Eric McCormack's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Will & Grace Will Truman The New Adventures of Old Christine Dr. Max Ker… Trust Me Mason McGuire The Andromeda Strain Jack Nash The Screen Actors Guild Awards 2009 Himself - P… Lonesome Dove: The Series (CA) Col. Franci…

Main Movie Roles 2009 - Alien Trespass 2009 - My One and Only 1998 - Free Enterprise 1998 - Holy Man 1992 - The Lost World

BIOGRAPHY:

Eric was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He attended Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute (the same school Mike Meyers attended) and Sir John A. Collegiate High school. With the support of his parents (his father was also an aspiring actor), Eric spent three years at the Ryerson Theater School in Toronto and the Banff Center for the Arts, and went on to spend five seasons with Canada's Stratford Festival - he graduated 'lead' status in such stage classics as "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Henry V" and "The Three Sisters". Eric then moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he also moved into television and movies and gained a devoted following of fans. Eric makes his home in both Vancouver and Los Angeles.


TRIVIA:

• The producers of the _"Highlander" (1992)_ (qv) television series liked Eric's performance in _"Lonesome Dove: The Series" (1994)_ (qv) so much that they created a character specially for him. In the Highlander episode Manhunt, McCormack played Matthew McCormick, an immortal working as a federal who tracks serial killers. The producers were so happy with this episode they considered giving Eric his own spin-off series.
• He became a US citizen, and now holds dual citizenship with the US and Canada.
• Son, Finnigan Holden McCormack, born 1 July 2002 in Los Angeles.
• A graduate for Ryerson University's School of Theatre (Toronto)
• Has a sister named Ellen.
• Attended Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute High School in Scarborough, Canada. It is the same high school that 'Mike Myers (I)' (qv) went to.
• Named his son Finnigan after the puppet in _"Mr. Dressup" (1967)_ (qv). He refers to his acting repertoire as his "tickle trunk" also from that show.
• Sang both the American and Canadian national anthems at the 2004 NHL All Stars game in Minnesota.