Dylan McDermott Biography
Dylan McDermott ( born Mark Anthony McDermott) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as lawyer and law firm head Bobby Donnell on The Practice, for which he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series- Drama and a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Dylan McDermott Age
He is 61 years old as of 2022. He was born Mark Anthony McDermott, on 26th October 1961 in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. ALSO READ: Yolanda Adams
Dylan McDermott Education
In 1983, he earned a BA from the Jesuit-run Fordham University while also studying under Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.
Dylan McDermott Nationality
Dylan the actor is an American national and citizen by birth, he was born in Waterbury, United State of America. He is of mixed ethnicity/heritage/ancestry of Italian, Irish, English, and French descent.
Dylan McDermott’s Father and mother
McDermott was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on October 26, 1961, to Diane and Richard McDermott. Robin is his younger sister. McDermott was born when Diane was 15 and Richard was 17; by 1967, the couple had divorced, and Diane and her two children were living with her mother, Avis Marino. Diane was murdered on February 9, 1967. McDermott and his sister were raised in Waterbury by their maternal grandmother Avis. His father had a third wife, Ensler, with whom McDermott has remained close.
Dylan McDermott Wife| Married
On November 19, 1995, he married actress Shiva Rose. They were blessed with two children after a happy marriage. On September 27, 2007, it was revealed that the actor and Rose had divorced. McDermott was reported to have filed for divorce from Rose on May 16, 2008. On January 2, 2009, the divorce was finalized. After meeting on-set in early 2014, it was announced on January 14, 2015, that he was engaged to his Stalker co-star Maggie Q, though the couple stated in 2017 that they are not in any hurry to have an actual wedding ceremony. After a four-year engagement, the couple divorced in February 2019.
Dylan McDermott Kids
He had two daughters with her wife, Shiva Rose before separating. Colette Rose McDermott and Charlotte Rose McDermott.
Dylan McDermott Career
He made his film debut in Hamburger Hill in 1987 before starring in Steel Magnolias alongside Julia Roberts as her husband Jackson Latcherie in 1989. He also appeared in Twister, a movie about a man attempting to save his girlfriend and daughter from a tornado.
The same year saw the release of Neon Empire, a film about the rise and fall of a single man in Las Vegas. However, his big break as an actor came with the film In the Line of Fire. The actor landed his first major role in The Practice thanks to his friendship with Clint Eastwood. McDermott’s stardom grew as a result of the show, and he was named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People in the World 1998.”
calling him “a prime-time heartthrob”. He got this distinction again in 2000. Despite his success on The Practice, McDermott was cut from the show. McDermott did appear in the final two episodes of the final season. In 2004, the actor starred alongside Julianna Margulies’s four-part mini-series The Grid, playing FBI Special Agent Max Canary in an anti-terrorist unit. Returning to a theater in 2006, the actor played a returned soldier suffering from Post-traumatic stress disorder in Ensler’s play The Treatment.
The actor appeared in the television series Big Shots in 2007. The show was canceled in January 2008 after 11 episodes due to low viewership, failing to complete the planned 13-episode season. McDermott was set to co-star with Shannen Doherty in the film Burning Palms, a satire based on Los Angeles stereotypes told through five intertwining storylines, according to TV Guide on October 30, 2008. McDermott began starring in the TNT drama Dark Blue in 2009, playing a veteran cop who leads a squad of undercover LAPD officers. In 2011, the actor portrayed Ben Harmon, a psychologist and cheating husband, on FX’s American Horror Story. He appeared in three films in 2012: The Campaign, in which he played Tim Wattley, a campaign manager,The Perks of Being a Wallflower, as the father of main character Charlie, and Nobody Walks, as Leroy.
In May 2013, the actor launched his first photography exhibition in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at Avenue Art Gallery as part of a collaboration with art agent Marina Cutler. Also in 2013, he starred in the short-lived CBS television series Hostages as FBI agent Duncan Carlisle. In 2014, he began starring on another short-lived CBS television series Stalker in one of the lead roles, portraying Detective Jack Larsen opposite Maggie Q. In 2019, the actor had a recurring role on The politician starring opposite January Jones, as the father of Lucy Boynton’s character. In 2020, he starred in Hollywood, a limited series for Netflix.
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Dylan McDermott’s Net worth
He has an estimated net worth of $ 20 million.
Dylan McDermott Movies and TV Shows
MOVIES:
- 2021 King Richard
- 2018 Josie
- 2018 The Clovehitch Killer
- 2016 Blind
- 2015 Survivor
- 2015 The Laws of the Universe Part 0
- 2014 Behaving Badly
- 2014 Autómata
- 2014 Mercy
- 2013 Olympus Has Fallen
- 2013 Freezer
- 2012 Nobody
- 2012 The Campaign
- 2012 The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- 2010 Burning Palms
- 2009 Mercy
- 2007 The Messengers
- 2007 Have Dreams, Will Travel
- 2006 Unbeatable Harold
- 2005 Edison Sergeant
- 2005 The Tenants
- 2005 The Mistress of Spices
- 2003 Party Monster
- 2003 Wonderland
- 2003 Runaway Jury Jacob Wood
- 2001 Texas Rangers
TV SHOWS:
- 2022–present FBI: Most Wanted
- 2021–2022 Law & Order
- 2021 American Horror Stories
- 2021 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- 2020 Hollywood
- 2019 The Politician
- 2019 American Horror Story: 1984
- 2019 No Activity
- 2018 LA to Vegas
- 2018 American Horror Story: Apocalypse
- 2014–2015 Stalker Detective
- 2013–2014 Hostages
- 2012–2013 American Horror Story:
- 2011 American Horror Story: Murder House
- 2011 Vietnam in HD
- 2009–2010 Dark Blue
- 2007–2008 Big Shots
- 2006 3 lbs Dr. Douglas Hanson
- 2006 A House Divided
- 2004 The Grid
- 2003 Will & Grace
- 2002 Music Behind Bars
