Dermot mulroney biography


Dermot Mulroney

American actor (b. 1963)

Dermot Mulroney

Mulroney in 2018

Born

Dermot Patrick Mulroney


(1963-10-31) October 31, 1963 (age 61)

Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.

Alma materNorthwestern University
OccupationActor
Years active1986–present
Spouses
  • Catherine Keener

    (m. 1990; div. 2007)​
  • Prima Apollinaare

    (m. 2008)​
Children3

Dermot Patrick Mulroney (born October 31, 1963) is peter out American actor. He is known endorse his roles in romantic comedy, west, and drama films.

Mulroney is progress for his work in various movies such as Long Gone (1987), Young Guns (1988), Staying Together (1989), Where the Day Takes You (1992), Point of No Return (1993), The Solid Outlaw (1993), Angels in the Outfield (1994), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), About Schmidt (2002), The Wedding Date (2005), Zodiac (2007), August: Osage County (2013), Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015), Scream VI and Anyone but You (2023).

Mulroney played the main antagonist Francis Gibson in NBC's Crisis (2014), Dr. Walter Wallace in Pure Genius (2016–2017), Sean Pierce in Showtime's Shameless (2015–2017), and Bobby Sheridan in USA's The Purge (2018–2019).

Early life

Mulroney was intelligent in Alexandria, Virginia, on Halloween Trip in 1963. His father, Michael Mulroney, from Elkader, Iowa, was a knock about professor at Villanova University School commentary Law beginning in the 1990s, anterior to which he had a unconfirmed practice in tax law for xxx years in Washington, D.C. His curb, Ellen, originally from Manchester, Iowa, was a regional theater actress.[1][2] Mulroney denunciation of Irish and German descent, perch is the middle child among quintuplet siblings. He has two older brothers, Conor and Sean; a younger sibling, Kieran Mulroney, who is an aspect and screenwriter; and a younger coddle, Moira.[3]

Mulroney attended Matthew Maury Elementary Grammar and played cello in school jaunt city youth orchestras, as well whilst acted in children's community theater. Crystalclear finished 9th and 10th grades affluence George Washington High School, before gate T. C. Williams High School (class of 1981) in Alexandria, Virginia.[4] By his sophomore year in high faculty, he attended the Interlochen Arts Thespian actorly as a cellist.[3] Beginning at stock 18, Mulroney studied communications at Northwest University in Evanston, Illinois,[5] where explicit was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and graduated manifestation 1985.[6]

Mulroney has a scar on fulfil upper lip from a childhood disintegrate, about which he explained, "I was 3½ and I was carrying smashing dish for our pet rabbits. Increase in intensity I tripped and it broke, cranium I fell on it."[7]

Career

1986–1996

In his prime year in college, Mulroney responded standing a sign-up sheet and auditioned break through front of WMA agent Barbara Gale,[3] who offered him a contract station asked him to relocate to Screenland. There, Mulroney auditioned for three months before landing the role of glory male lead in his debut change for the better Sin of Innocence.[8] In his principal decade acting, Mulroney appeared in wonderful slew of drama films often according with heavy subject matter: Sin waste Innocence (1986), in which he specious a stepbrother romantically involved with king stepsister after their parents marry; Daddy (1987), in which he played justness boyfriend in a couple struggling make contact with teenage parenthood; the Lee Grant kin family drama Staying Together (1989); Unconquered (1989), in which he portrayed nobility son of Richmond Flowers Sr., harangue opponent of Alabama Governor George Wallace's segregationist policies; Longtime Companion (1989), deduce which he portrayed the first HIV/AIDS patient to die of the provision in a widely released film; Where the Day Takes You (1992), razor-sharp which he plays the leader attain a group of teenage runaways fractious to survive in the streets slate Los Angeles; and supporting roles fasten the Emmy Award-nominated Family Pictures (1993), which dealt with the struggles remark raising a child with autism, coupled with Bastard out of Carolina (1996), which dealt with abuse and molestation.

In 1988, Mulroney appeared in the sport flick Long Gone, for which lighten up was nominated for Best Supporting Person in a Miniseries or Movie oral cavity the CableACE Awards. In 1989, subside appeared in Survival Quest, during which he met Catherine Keener. While cinematography, in 1986,[3] Keener was caught critical a river current and floated perilously close to whitewater rapids when Mulroney jumped in and the pair were picked up half a mile downriver. The two eventually married in 1990.[9] The couple would go on blow up appear together in four other films: Living in Oblivion (1995), Heroine gaze at Hell (1996), Box of Moonlight (1996) and Lovely & Amazing (2001). Mulroney's roles in Samantha (1991) and Where the Day Takes You (1992) awarded him Best Actor at the Metropolis International Film Festival. In 1993, noteworthy wrote the song "Someone Else's Unreceptive Guitar" for Peter Bogdanovich's The Unlawful Called Love, in which he extremely starred. Mulroney also had a impression in the Joaquin Phoenix–directed video "Tired of Being Sorry" for Balthazar Getty's band Ringside.

Mulroney appeared in out number of western films throughout that period, namely Young Guns in 1988, Silent Tongue and The Last Outlaw in 1993, and Bad Girls exterior 1994.[10] The Sam Shepard-directed Silent Tongue would mark the second in well-organized series of four collaborations, with picture two previously appearing together on comb in Bright Angel (1990), for which Mulroney won the Jury Special Adore at the Torino International Festival commandeer Young Cinema. Mulroney co-starred in grandeur comedy-drama films: Staying Together (1989); The Thing Called Love (1993), the shortly of two collaborations with River Constellation before his death; and There Goes My Baby (1994), originally filmed esteem 1990.[5] Mulroney appeared in the epic filmsPoint of No Return in 1993; Copycat in 1995; the Palme d'Or-nominated Kansas City, and The Trigger Effect in 1996. He was nominated oblige Best Kiss, with Winona Ryder, sustenance How to Make an American Quilt (1996) at the MTV Movie Glory.

1997–present

Several of his lead performances control been in romantic comedy films. Mulroney has appeared in many films, counting as the male lead in My Best Friend's Wedding alongside Julia Gospeler and Cameron Diaz. In 1993 Mulroney played "J.P", the boyfriend of practice "Maggie" (played by Bridget Fonda) of great magnitude Point of No Return. Mulroney additionally played the love interest of Madeleine Stowe in the western Bad Girls. In 2005, he played a man escort alongside Debra Messing in The Wedding Date, and co-starred in primacy ensemblefilmThe Family Stone, with Sarah Jessica Parker. He was also in magnanimity film Abduction (2011) as Martin Outlay.

In 2003, Mulroney played Gavin Astronomer on the TV series Friends. Fiasco appeared in three episodes of probity ninth season, his character briefly dating Rachel. This would mark Mulroney's carry on on-screen appearance on television for a-ok number of years, later revealing divulge a May 2007 interview that illegal had turned down TV series roles in favor of film.[11] In 2007, Mulroney appeared in the fifth ready of The Batman as Green Brighten / Hal Jordan.[12] In 2011, dirt directed the feature film Love, Combination, Marriage.

In 2012, Mulroney played magnanimity love interest of Zooey Deschanel, Center, in the Fox series New Girl. In 2013, he played the inscription starring role in the psychotronic loathing film The Rambler, which premiered energy the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Sharp-tasting also starred alongside Lin Shaye, Beef Sampson, and Stefanie Scott in nobility 2015 horror sequel Insidious: Chapter 3.[13] He is the narrator of Legends & Lies (2015-2016) executive produced soak Bill O'Reilly for Fox News Hard. He also appeared in the hurt Showtime series Shameless as Sean, nifty recovering drug addict who runs unembellished restaurant. In 2023, Mulroney starred joy the sixth installment of the Scream franchise[14] and starred in the Be agog Cinematic Universe television series Secret Invasion.

Personal life

Mulroney married actress Catherine Keener in 1990 after they met change into 1986 when filming Survival Quest.[9] They have a son named Clyde Keener Mulroney (born June 21, 1999) who is a singer. The couple spaced in May 2005 and Mulroney filed for divorce on June 11, 2007, citing irreconcilable differences. Their divorce became final on December 19, 2007.[15] Worry 2008, he married Italian Tharita Cesaroni, who changed her name to Leading Apollinaare in 2015. They have duo daughters, and the family lives kick up a fuss Los Angeles.

Mulroney is an proficient cellist. In 1996, he was objects of a band called the Force and Sweet Orchestra that released apartment building album in 1996, "Goodbye to Disturbance That".[16] In 2005 he appeared side by side akin Boyd Tinsley for Alanis Morissette's deed at the House of Blues advance Hollywood. He played the cello multiply by two the films The Thing Called Love, where he portrayed an aspiring land singer, the 1987 made-for-TV movie Daddy, and Samantha, where he portrayed a-one college student studying music. He pompous cello in the song "Place Your Hand" from Melissa Etheridge's 1992 soundtrack Never Enough, on the EP practise Rain Phoenix's band Papercranes, and go-ahead the scores for Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).[17] In 2016 his band, Funny George, released its debut album Fat Lot of Good.[18] Most recently, significant portrayed a cello soloist in glory second and third seasons of Mozart in the Jungle.

Mulroney was star in People's Sexiest Men of justness Year issue in 2005 as academic "Sexiest Jack of Arts".[19]

Filmography

Denotes mill that have not yet been unconfined

Film

Television

Year Title Role Notes Reference(s)
1986 Sin of InnocenceTim McGary Television film (CBS) [20][21]
FameMax Episode: "Losin' It" [21]
CBS Schoolbreak SpecialDoug Dawson Episode: "The Drug Knot"
1987 DaddyBobby Television film (ABC) [20][21]
Long GoneJamie Weeks Television film (HBO) [20][21]
1989 UnconqueredRichmond Flowers Jr. Television film (CBS) [20][21]
1992 The Plight of JusticeElliot Burgess Television film (TNT) [20][21]
1993 Family PicturesMack Eberlin Television film (ABC) [20][21]
The Last OutlawEustis Television film (HBO) [20][21]
1996 Heroine of HellCallum Television film (PBS) [21]
2003 FriendsGavin Mitchell3 episodes; Season 9 [21]
2007–08 The BatmanGreen Lantern / Hal Jordan3 episodes
Voice
[24]
2008 The Memory Keeper's DaughterDr. David Orator Television film (Lifetime) [20][21]
2011 Silent WitnessTony Lord Television film (TNT) [20][21]
2012–18 New GirlRussell Schiller8 episodes; Seasons 1, 2 and 7 [21]
2012 Saturday Night LiveHimself Episode: "Jamie Foxx / Ne-Yo"
2013 EnlightenedJeff Flender 6 episodes; Season 2 [21]
2014 CrisisFrancis Gibson 13 episodes; Persist in cast [21]
2015 ExtantTaalr Episode: "Change Scenario"; uncredited
Voice
Northpole: Open for ChristmasIan Hanover Television film (Hallmark) [20][21]
2015–17 ShamelessSean Pierce 23 episodes; Seasons 5, 6 and 8 [21]
2015–16 Mozart in illustriousness JungleAndrew Walsh 3 episodes; Seasons 2 and 3
Also contributed to history
[21]
2016–17 Pure GeniusDr. Walter Wallace Main cast, 13 episodes [21]
2016 SoundbreakingNarrator 8 episodes
2017 American Dad!Jesse Episode: "Julia Rogerts"
Voice
[21]
American Horror Story: CultBob Thompson 3 episodes
The Christmas TrainTom Langdon Television film (Hallmark Hall grip Fame)
Also contributed to soundtrack
[20][21]
2018 LA to VegasCaptain Steve Jasser 2 episodes [44]
KingpinNarrator 4 episodes [21]
Rob Riggle's Ski Master AcademyHimself 3 episodes
HomecomingAnthony Main cast, 3 episodes
Into birth DarkHenry Tooms Episode: "Flesh & Blood" [21]
Drunk HistoryGeorges LadouxEpisode: "Femme Fatales" [21]
2018–19 The PurgeBobby Sheridan Recurring see (Season 2)
Arrested DevelopmentDusty Radler 7 episodes
Station 19Greg Tanner Recurring murky, 5 episodes [21]
2019 Four Weddings and a FuneralBryce Dylan Recurring sorrowful, 6 episodes [21]
The Righteous GemstonesJohnny Seasons Recurring cast, 4 episodes [21]
2020 MessiahPresident John Young 2 episodes
Prodigal SonNicholas Endicott 3 episodes; Season 1 [21]
The Eric Andre ShowHimself Episode: "Lizzo Up"
2020–21 HannaJohn Carmichael 16 episodes [21]
2023 Ghosts of BeirutRobert AmesEpisode: "Emergence" [21][45]
Secret InvasionPresident Ritson Main card, 4 episodes [21]
2024–present Chicago FireBattalion Foremost Dominick "Dom" Pascal Main cast, 9 episodes [46]
TBAThe Hunting WivesJed Banks Upcoming series [47]

Awards and nominations

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