Eric McCormack was first bitten by the acting bug while attending high school in Scarborough, Ontario where he performed in high school productions of Godspell and Pippin. McCormack recalls that it was after performing in Godspell that his feelings towards becoming an actor solidified: “I remember after the first performance of that… I knew where to fit in. That was the beginning of my life as an actor. It changed me in that the concept of any other options disappeared. From that moment there was no question. I knew exactly what I was going to do.”
In the years following his graduation from Ryerson College, McCormack appeared in theatres across Canada, including five seasons with the famous Stratford Festival. He secured starring roles on Street Legal, E.N.G., Katts and Dog and Hangin’ In. His turn as Col. Clay Mosby on Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years introduced him not only to a wider audience but also to his wife, Janet Holden.
It was his performance as Will Truman on the Emmy-winning Will & Grace that changed everything for Eric, earning him a Screen Actors’ Guild Award, five Golden Globe nominations, and the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. He hosted Saturday Night Live, sang both anthems at the NHL All-Star Game and made his Broadway debut as Prof. Harold Hill in The Music Man.
McCormack has also starred in the Trust Me, The Andromeda Strain, Who Is Clark Rockefeller? The New Adventures of Old Christine, Alien Trespass, My One and Only and the Canadian Feature Textuality.
Eric returned to the New York stage in 2006 to star in the American premiere of Neil LaBute’s Some Girl(s) and, last spring, he headed the cast of Jason Alexander’s The Fantasticks for LA’s Reprise Theater.
