41 Facts About Eric McCormack

Eric McCormack left Ryerson University in 1985 to accept a position with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where he spent five years performing in many stage productions.

Eric McCormack made his feature film debut in the 1992 science-fiction adventure film The Lost World.

Eric McCormack appeared in several television series including Top Cops, Street Justice, Lonesome Dove: The Series, Townies, and Ally McBeal.

Eric McCormack's performance has earned him six Golden Globe nominations and four Emmy nominations, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2001.

Eric McCormack starred in the television miniseries The Andromeda Strain and returned to television in 2009 in the TNT drama Trust Me, which was cancelled after one season.

Also in 2009, Eric McCormack was cast in the science-fiction movie Alien Trespass.

Eric McCormack was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Doris, a homemaker, and James "Keith" Eric McCormack, an oil company financial analyst who died from cancer in 2008.

Eric McCormack enrolled in theatre classes there and performed in high school productions of Godspell and Pippin.

Eric McCormack recalls that after performing in Godspell, his feelings toward becoming an actor solidified and he decided to pursue a career in acting.

Eric McCormack graduated from high school in 1982 and enrolled at Ryerson University School of Theatre in Toronto to further develop as an actor.

Eric McCormack left Ryerson in 1985, several months before graduating, to accept a position with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario where he spent five seasons performing.

Eric McCormack later performed with the Manitoba Theatre Centre in a production of Burn This, as well as with Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre in Biloxi Blues.

Eric McCormack made his Canadian television debut in the 1986 movie The Boys from Syracuse.

Eric McCormack appeared in the 1992 theatrical films The Lost World, based on Conan Doyle's novel of the same name and in its sequel, Return to the Lost World, released in 1992.

Also in 1993, Eric McCormack appeared in the television movie Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, playing Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's father.

Eric McCormack played the role of Colonel Francis Clay Mosby in 42 episodes of the Western television series Lonesome Dove: The Series, which was later renamed Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years.

Eric McCormack was cast in the 1997 made-for-television movie Borrowed Hearts, where he portrayed a selfish businessman who learns to love, and in the HBO film Exception to the Rule, in which he played a cheating husband.

Originally, Eric McCormack was scheduled to appear as a series regular in the NBC sitcom Jenny, but was fired after the pilot due to the network cutting his character.

Eric McCormack said that when the part came along, he was convinced he was right for the role.

Kay McFadden of The Seattle Times praised Eric McCormack, Messing, and the supporting cast as "very funny".

Also in 1998, Eric McCormack appeared in Stephen Herek's comedy film Holy Man.

In 2000, Eric McCormack appeared in the ABC television movie The Audrey Hepburn Story, portraying actor Mel Ferrer.

Eric McCormack hosted the fourth episode of the 28th season of the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live on November 2,2002.

The new show has been branded as a "reboot", or "revival", taking place 11 years after the original series' finale episode, and Eric McCormack has reprised his role of the beloved Will Truman.

Eric McCormack continued his role of Will Truman for all of the announced seasons of the revival.

Eric McCormack plays a writer who is ready to settle down and marry, but decides to visit four ex-girlfriends first.

The Andromeda Strain received mixed reviews, and Eric McCormack's performance was criticized.

In January 2009, Eric McCormack returned to television in the TNT drama Trust Me, co-starring Tom Cavanagh.

Eric McCormack starred in the science-fiction film Alien Trespass ; he played Doctor Ted Lewis, who gets possessed by an alien marshal, Urp, after he crash-lands on Earth.

Eric McCormack had a supporting role in Richard Loncraine's comedy My One and Only, which was released in August 2009.

In June 2010, Eric McCormack received the NBC Universal Canada Award of Distinction at the Banff TV Festival.

Eric McCormack provides the voice of "Lucky" on The Hub's Pound Puppies series, which premiered October 10,2010.

Eric McCormack starred in Travelers, a science fiction drama which first aired in October 2016 and ran for three seasons.

Eric McCormack has set up his own production company called Big Cattle Productions to develop ideas for television.

Eric McCormack has been married to Janet Leigh Holden, whom he met on the set of Lonesome Dove, since August 1997.

Eric McCormack became a US citizen in 1999 and holds dual Canadian and US citizenship.

Eric McCormack is involved in many Los Angeles and Canadian-based charitable organizations including Project Angel Food.

Eric McCormack shared with the audience how his comedy helped his mother, Doris McCormack, endure her breast cancer treatments.

Doris Eric McCormack was honored at the Lifetime's Breast Cancer Heroes Luncheon in 2004.

Eric McCormack serves as an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and was given the MMRF Spirit of Hope Award in October 2006.

Eric McCormack is a supporter of same-sex marriage and attended a march in Fresno, California on May 30,2009, after the Supreme Court of California upheld a ban on same-sex marriage approved by voters in November by ballot Proposition 8.