Canadian kid Eric McCormack kept his youthful acting dreams local because he was too ignorant and afraid to figure out how to get to Los Angeles or New York, where he could go for bigger roles. The theater-trained thespian began his career with Canada’s Stratford Festival and traveled to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, paying his dues after the festival closed at the end of each year. It wasn’t until the early 1990s that he moved further west, to Vancouver, to begin his television career in earnest. It all paid off, and McCormack now stars in two series — the “Will & Grace” revival on NBC and “Travelers” on Netflix — and will receive his star Sept. 13 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
“I was doing plays in first grade, so for me, it was always that or nothing. I had no fallback position,” McCormack admits.
It was McCormack’s...
“I was doing plays in first grade, so for me, it was always that or nothing. I had no fallback position,” McCormack admits.
It was McCormack’s...
- 9/13/2018
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Gersh has signed actor Eric McCormack. He was most recently at ICM Partners. McCormack is best known for his eight seasons on NBC’s comedy Will & Grace, which earned him a lead actor Emmy along with a SAG award. McCormack also toplined TNT drama Perception, which ran for three seasons. His other TV credits as an actor include The Andromeda Strain, Borrowed Hearts, Trust Me, the title role in Who Is Clark Rockefeller?, The New Adventures Of Old Christine and two seasons as…...
- 9/29/2015
- Deadline TV
Mark Burnett and his wife Roma Downey are one of Malibu's most famous couples. The prolific producer's wife Downey is an Irish born lass and he is a former 3rd Battalion veteran, the Parachute Regiment (3 Para), who served his country during the Falklands war. Burnett is of Scottish ancestry, but raised in England. A celebrated, Emmy-nominated actress, Ms. Downey is best known for her decade of work as the tender-hearted angel on the hit CBS show .Touched by an Angel.. Ms. Downey not only starred in, but executive produced seven television movies for The CBS network, among them "Borrowed Hearts" with Eric McCormack and "Second Honeymoon" with Tim Matheson. She is the executive producer of the children's DVD and...
- 2/8/2013
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
With a series in development at Syfy, Kevin Sorbo’s hot streak continues with … the Hallmark Channel original The Santa Suit premiering Dec. 2. As you can tell from the photo, he play a sexy businessman, Hunter Toys CEO Drake Hunter, who’s kind of a douche. As the synopsis explains, “Hunter has come up with a deliciously deceitful marketing plan this Christmas. He has dispatched mall Santas throughout the city to whisper into the ears of boys and girls, ‘It isn’t a great toy, unless it’s from Hunter’s!’ There’s only one problem: Santa is watching, and he isn’t amused.
- 10/11/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
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