
Eric McCormack
Highest Rated: 83% Free Enterprise (1998)
Lowest Rated: 12% Holy Man (1998)
Birthday: Apr 18, 1963
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Handsome, charming and blessed with impeccable comic timing, Emmy Award-winning actor Eric McCormack earned accolades as a star on one of television's most ground-breaking and beloved sitcoms. Classically trained on the stage, he performed with the revered Stratford Shakespeare Festival for five seasons prior to earning screen time on such shows as "Lonesome Dove: The Series" (CTV, 1994-95) and in the Eddie Murphy feature comedy "Holy Man" (1998). Almost immediately thereafter, McCormack won the heart of television audiences as one-half of a wacky, platonic couple on the hit series "Will & Grace" (NBC, 1998-2006). Notable for its envelope-pushing message of tolerance, wrapped in exceptionally saucy humor, the sitcom not only made stars of McCormack and his co-star Debra Messing, but also the show's manic supporting players, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally. During and after the award-winning, eight-year run of "Will & Grace," the actor kept busy with his Broadway debut as "The Music Man" in 2001, as a reporter uncovering a deadly government cover-up in the miniseries "The Andromeda Strain" (A&E, 2008), and as a charismatic, social-climbing con man in "Who is Clark Rockefeller?" (Lifetime, 2010). McCormack's proven appeal and impressive range in virtually any genre assured him a robust professional future, filled with varied roles in projects of any stripe.







Photos
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Drinkwater | Hank Drinkwater (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | 42% | A Heavenly Christmas | Max Wingford (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 37% | The Architect | Colin (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Considering Love and Other Magic | Uncle Jasper (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 19% | Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story | Joe Sullivan (Character) | - | 2013 |
28% | 26% | Knife Fight | Larry (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 14% | Barricade | Terrance Shade (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 16% | Textuality | Clive (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 41% | Who Is Clark Rockefeller? | Clark Rockefeller (Character) | - | 2010 |
68% | 50% | My One and Only | Charlie (Character) | $2.5M | 2009 |
37% | 31% | Alien Trespass |
Ted Lewis/ |
$104.4K | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Immigrants | Vlad (Voice) | - | 2008 |
29% | 52% | The Sisters | Gary Sokol (Character) | - | 2005 |
20% | 48% | The Audrey Hepburn Story | Mel Ferrer (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here's to Life! | Owen Rinard (Character) | - | 2000 |
83% | 79% | Free Enterprise | Mark (Character) | $30.2K | 1998 |
12% | 24% | Holy Man | Scott Hawkes (Character) | $12.1M | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 77% | Borrowed Hearts: A Holiday Romance | Sam Field (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Exception to the Rule | Timothy Bayer (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Traveler | Andy Robinson (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night Visitors | Andy Robinson (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Man Who Wouldn't Die | Jack Sullivan (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Island City | Greg 23 (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Relentless: Mind of a Killer | Stu Feltzer (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 39% | Call of the Wild | Hal (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 55% | Double, Double, Toil and Trouble | Don Farmer (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The Lost World | Edward Malone (Character) | - | 1992 |
TV
Credit | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
74% | 72% | Will & Grace | Will Truman (Character) | 2017-2020 |
No Score Yet | 49% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2016 2018 2020 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Busy Tonight | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 28% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 97% | Viajeros |
Special Agent Grant MacLaren (Character), Director |
2016-2018 |
No Score Yet | 45% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 0% | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2017-2018 |
83% | 71% | The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Conan | Guest | 2012-2014 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry | Guest | 2016-2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Call With Carson Daly | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 75% | Full Circle | Unknown (Character) | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 75% | Full Circle | Unknown (Character) | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 84% | Perception |
Dr. Daniel Pierce (Character), Producer |
2012-2015 |
24% | 76% | The Mysteries of Laura | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 0% | The Talk | Guest | 2012-2014 |
No Score Yet | 10% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2009 2014 |
No Score Yet | 6% | The View | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 93% | Robot Chicken | Unknown (Guest Voice) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 90% | American Dad! | Swinger (Guest Voice) | 2012 |
89% | 82% | The New Adventures of Old Christine | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009-2010 |
78% | 89% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Vance Shepard (Guest Star) | 2009 |
52% | No Score Yet | Trust Me | Mason McGuire (Character) | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 72% | Hell's Kitchen | Guest | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachael Ray | Guest | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Conan O'Brien | Guest | 2008-2009 |
91% | 89% | Monk | James Novak (Guest Star) | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lovespring International | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 88% | Will & Grace | Will Truman (Character) | 1998-2006 |
No Score Yet | 44% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Guest | 1999 2001 |
61% | 75% | Ally McBeal | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Veronica's Closet | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Outer Limits | Unknown (Character) | 1997 |
30% | No Score Yet | Townies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Diagnosis Murder | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Commish | Ted Eckels (Guest Star) | 1992-1993 |