Early and educational life

Dual nationality holder James has both the American and Canadian Passport. He was born in Toronto, Canada on 18th April 1963. His mother was a housewife and his father worked in the oil field company as financial analyst. They are three kids of their parents and he was the oldest one. In his schooling age was a shy guy and hesitates to participate in co-curriculum activities. He did his higher studies from Stephen Lock high school in Ontario. He registered for theater in high school and gave his first performance in “Pippin” and “God spell”. After attended theater he discovered his ability of acting in him. He did his graduation in 1982 from Sir John institute, Scarborough. He wanted to sharpen his acting and attended Ryerson University, where he enrolled in school of theater. He left the University in 1985. Before graduation he did five seasons of his acting in Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

Mc did lots of theater plays. “Murder in the Cathedral” and “Henry” was two of them. He also worked with Manitoba Theater and Royal Alexander Theater.

Personal Life

Mc. Although a supporter of same sex marriages but he was married to a girl in 1997. Jane Leigh is her wife met him on the set of Lonesome Dove. God gave them a baby boy in 2002 named Finning Holden. The couple and their kid are living happily in Los Angeles.

Nobel work of Eric

He worked for MMRF and he also served for the charitable trust. The trust worked for the well-being of cancer patient. He earned award for breast cancer awareness campaign and also got award “Spirit of Hope”.

Career

Eric gave his first performance as actor in his school times. That time he discovered the real talent and passion in him. He further attended school of theater. After theater Eric showed his talent world-wide from the Canadian television movie in 1986 “The Boys from Syracuse”. He then debuted from American television crime series “Top Cops” in 1991. In 1993 he did recurring role in “Street Justice” a crime drama. He also did “Double Double” and “Toil and Trouble” television movies released in 1993. He worked in 42 episodes of western television series “Lonesome Dove 1994 and 95. He performed in HBO film made for television in 1997. In 2009 he returned to television after doing films. He did TNT drama series.

Eric did lot of work on television but the real success he got from the film “Will and Grace” (1998) in which he played a role of gay lawyer. Eric found the film perfect for him. It was all near to his life. He was supporter of same sex marriages. The film was insanely success on box office. “Holy cow” a comedy film was the other film got after Will and Grace which was unsuccessful on box office. Free Enterprises, The Sisters, The Andromeda Strain are some of the film did by Eric.

Besides acting, Eric also produced films. He made his own production company “Big Castle” under which he produced comedy film “Love Spring International”.

Eric has one more skill that he can sing. In 2004 he wrote and sings a song “Living with Grace”. He also sung for album in 2006. James also sung American and Canadian National Anthems in “All Star Games”.

Awards and Achievements

Stunning actor Eric earned many awards for acting and music. Eric nominated 4 times Emmy award for the outstanding actor in 2000 -01 and 03 &05. He won 2001 “Emmy award”. He also nominated for 5 times “Golden Globe award”. Least but not last he nominated for 4 times “Guild award” and one in 2000.

Versatile actor McCormack gets remarkable success in his life. He started his acting career from the high school. He did theater for long time. Stunning actor worked on television but he got world-wide fame from the film “Will and Grace”. Singing, writing songs and production are other projects done by him. He is still on the way of success.