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Eric McCormack
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Canadian-American actor, producer, and writer
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Dutch Wife
- Inspecting the Vault
- Epouse Hollandaise
- First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
- The Paradise Motel
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Film & TV
Acting · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Eric James McCormack (born April 18, 1963, height 5' 11" (1,80 m)) is a Canadian American actor, musician, writer and producer. Born in Toronto, he began his acting career performing in school plays at Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute High School. He left Ryerson University in 1985, in order to accept a position with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where he spent five years performing in…
Known for
- Love, Again — Leo2026
- Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue — Kevin Anderson2025
- Hell Motel — Hemmingway2025
- The Hunting Party — Ron Simms2025
- Remembering Gene Wilder — Self2024
- Elsbeth — Tom Murphy2024
- Guiding Emily — Garth2023
- Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make Believe — Self2023
- The Other Black Girl — Richard Wagner2023
- Slasher: Ripper — Basil Garvey2023
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Eric McCormack is a Canadian American actor, musician, writer and producer, making his feature film debut in the 1992 science fiction The Lost World. McCormack won an Emmy Award in 2001 for his role in the 1998-2006 television series Will and Grace. McCormack recorded a song, "The Greatest Discovery", which was written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin in 1970, for the 2006 album Unexpected Dreams – Songs From the Stars. He also wrote and sang <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Eric+McCormack"
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,861x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,775x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,730x
- The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 25,632x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 22,163x
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Key facts
- Born
- Eric James McCormack , ( 1963-04-18 ) April 18, 1963 (age 63) , Toronto , Ontario, Canada
- Citizenship
- Canadian (1963–present) American (1999–present)
- Occupations
- Actor singer producer writer
- Years active
- 1986–present
- Spouse
- Janet Holden ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1997 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2025 )
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- Eric McCormack 2012 Shankbone 3.JPG
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- Eric McCormack
- date of birth
- 1963-04-18
- start of work period
- 1986-00-00
- name in native language
- Eric McCormack
- birth name
- Eric James McCormack
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- 261840
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Eric James McCormack (born April 18, 1963) is a Canadian and American actor and singer. He is known for his roles as Will Truman in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, Grant MacLaren in Netflix's Travelers, and Dr. Daniel Pierce in the TNT crime drama Perception. Born in Toronto, McCormack started acting by performing in high school plays. He left Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1985 to accept a position with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where he spent five years performing in many stage productions.
During the late 1990s, he lived in Los Angeles and had minor roles. He made his feature film debut in the 1992 science-fiction adventure film The Lost World. McCormack appeared in several television series including Top Cops, Street Justice, Lonesome Dove: The Series, Townies, and Ally McBeal. He later gained worldwide recognition for playing Will Truman in Will & Grace, which premiered in September 1998. His 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.