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Eric James McCormack (born April 18, 1963) is a Canadian/American actor, musician, and writer. Born in Toronto, he began his acting career performing in high school plays. He left Ryerson University in 1985 to accept a position with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, where he spent five years performing in numerous play productions. For much of 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''. McCormack later gained worldwide recognition for playing Will Truman in the American sitcom ''Will & Grace'', which premiered in September 1998. His performance earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2001. Aside from appearing in television, he made his Broadway debut in the 2001 production of ''The Music Man'' and starred in the 2005 film ''The Sisters''. Following the series conclusion of ''Will & Grace'' in 2006, McCormack starred as the leading role in the New York production of ''Some Girl(s)''. He starred in the television miniseries ''The Andromeda Strain'' (2008) and returned to television in 2009 in the TNT drama ''Trust Me'', which was cancelled after one season. Also in 2009, McCormack was cast in the science-fiction movie ''Alien Trespass''. In addition, he starred as Dr. Daniel Pierce for three seasons of the TNT crime drama ''Perception'', and provided the voice of "Lucky" on The Hub's ''Pound Puppies ==Early life== McCormack was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Doris (1932-2006), a homemaker, and Keith McCormack, an oil company financial analyst.〔 He is the oldest of three siblings.〔 McCormack has Cherokee and Scottish ancestry. McCormack states while he was growing up, he was shy and did not play sports. McCormack attended Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute High School in Scarborough, Ontario. There, he enrolled in theatre and performed in high school productions of ''Godspell'' and ''Pippin'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eric McCormack )〕 and decided to pursue a career in acting. McCormack recalls after performing in ''Godspell'', 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. I'm lucky that way." He admits that he never felt cool growing up. "I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through." He then transferred to Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, where he went to school with David Furnish.〔 He graduated in 1982.〔 McCormack enrolled at Ryerson University School of Theatre in Toronto to further improve his acting. He 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. "It was all I wanted, to be a classical actor for the rest of my life, but during the last couple of years I was there, I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact." McCormack appeared in the productions ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''Henry V'', ''Murder in the Cathedral'' and ''Three Sisters''. 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''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eric McCormack」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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