Eric McCormack

Person · Open Library

Works

11

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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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Ireland

Active from

1963

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,057

Total plays

3,159

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"

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 48,837x

2. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

   · 2004 · cited 44,323x

3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,494x

4. The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 26,077x

5. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 23,441x

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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Eric

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Toronto

Occupation

film director

Political party

Democratic Party (United States)

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Award

GLAAD Vanguard Award

Image

Eric McCormack 2012 Shankbone 3.JPG

Residence

Vancouver

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