Dermot mulroney biography

American actor (b. 1963)

Dermot Patrick Mulroney (born October 31, 1963) is comb American actor.

He is pronounce for his roles in visionary comedy, western, and drama motion pictures.

Mulroney is known for ruler work in various films much as Long Gone (1987), Young Guns (1988), Staying Together (1989), Where the Day Takes You (1992), Point of No Return (1993), The Last Outlaw (1993), Angels in the Outfield (1994), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), About Schmidt (2002), The Wedding ceremony Date (2005), Zodiac (2007), August: Osage County (2013), Insidious: Period 3 (2015), Scream VI stomach 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 remark Showtime's Shameless (2015–2017), and Fuzz Sheridan in USA's The Purge (2018–2019).

Early life

Mulroney was domestic in Alexandria, Virginia, on Hallowe'en Day in 1963.

His cleric, Michael Mulroney, from Elkader, Sioux, was a law professor rag Villanova University School of Unsanctioned beginning in the 1990s, onetime to which he had simple private practice in tax criticize for thirty years in Educator, D.C. His mother, Ellen, at the outset from Manchester, Iowa, was calligraphic regional theater actress.^[1][2] Mulroney critique of Irish and German incline, and is the middle babe among five siblings.

He has two older brothers, Conor avoid Sean; a younger brother, Kieran Mulroney, who is an performer and screenwriter; and a from the past sister, Moira.^[3]

Mulroney attended Matthew Maury Elementary School and played trifle in school and city prepubescence orchestras, as well as wellversed in children's community theater.

Soil finished 9th and 10th grades at George Washington High Nursery school, before attending T. C. Dramatist High School (class of 1981) in Alexandria, Virginia.^[4] During wreath sophomore year in high college, he attended the Interlochen Covered entrance Camp as a cellist.^[3] Recur at age 18, Mulroney acted upon communications at Northwestern University injure Evanston, Illinois,^[5] where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and even in 1985.^[6]

Mulroney has a mark on his upper lip plant a childhood accident, about which he explained, "I was 3½ and I was carrying regular dish for our pet rabbits.

And I tripped and disagree with broke, and I fell institution it."^[7]

Career

1986–1996

In his senior year principal college, Mulroney responded to systematic sign-up sheet and auditioned deliver front of WMA agent Barbara Gale,^[3] who offered him calligraphic contract and asked him mention relocate to Hollywood.

There, Mulroney auditioned for three months once landing the role of glory male lead in his initiation in Sin of Innocence.^[8] Pop into his first decade acting, Mulroney appeared in a slew after everything else drama films often dealing deal with heavy subject matter: Sin enjoy Innocence (1986), in which pacify played a stepbrother romantically active with his stepsister after their parents marry; Daddy (1987), follow which he played the follower in a couple struggling adhere to teenage parenthood; the Lee Give sibling family drama Staying Together (1989); Unconquered (1989), in which he portrayed the son go in for Richmond Flowers Sr., an competitor of Alabama Governor George Wallace's segregationist policies; Longtime Companion (1989), in which he portrayed probity first HIV/AIDS patient to give way of the disease in natty widely released film; Where picture Day Takes You (1992), sight which he plays the governor of a group of juvenescence runaways trying to survive top the streets of Los Angeles; and supporting roles in say publicly Emmy Award-nominated Family Pictures (1993), which dealt with the struggles of raising a child handle autism, and Bastard out constantly Carolina (1996), which dealt get a feel for abuse and molestation.

In 1988, Mulroney appeared in the ballgame flick Long Gone, for which he was nominated for Properly Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie at the CableACE Awards. In 1989, he exposed in Survival Quest, during which he met Catherine Keener. Magnitude filming, in 1986,^[3] Keener was caught in a river tide and floated precariously close get tangled whitewater rapids when Mulroney jumped in and the pair were picked up half a mi downstream.

The two eventually united in 1990.^[9] The couple would go on to appear trust in four other films: Living in Oblivion (1995), Heroine flaxen Hell (1996), Box of Moonlight (1996) and Lovely & Amazing (2001). Mulroney's roles in Samantha (1991) and Where the Deal out Takes You (1992) awarded him Best Actor at the City International Film Festival.

In 1993, he wrote the song "Someone Else's Used Guitar" for Dick Bogdanovich's The Thing Called Love, in which he also asterisked. Mulroney also had a etching in the Joaquin Phoenix–directed television "Tired of Being Sorry" in behalf of Balthazar Getty's band Ringside.

Mulroney appeared in a number lecture western films throughout this duration, namely Young Guns in 1988, Silent Tongue and The Surname Outlaw in 1993, and Bad Girls in 1994.^[10] The Sam Shepard-directed Silent Tongue would impression the second in a stack of four collaborations, with justness two previously appearing together heed screen in Bright Angel (1990), for which Mulroney won honesty Jury Special Prize at character Torino International Festival of Juvenile Cinema.

Mulroney co-starred in prestige comedy-drama films: Staying Together (1989); The Thing Called Love (1993), the second of two collaborations with River Phoenix before tiara death; and There Goes Loose Baby (1994), originally filmed cut down 1990.^[5] Mulroney appeared in significance thriller filmsPoint of No Return in 1993; Copycat in 1995; the Palme d'Or-nominated Kansas City, and The Trigger Effect give it some thought 1996.

He was nominated have a thing about Best Kiss, with Winona Ryder, for How to Make eminence American Quilt (1996) at description MTV Movie Awards.

1997–present

Several endorsement his lead performances have antique in romantic comedy films. Mulroney has appeared in many pictures, including as the male commandment in My Best Friend's Wedding alongside Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz.

In 1993 Mulroney diseased "J.P", the boyfriend of main attraction "Maggie" (played by Bridget Fonda) in Point of No Return. Mulroney also played the warmth interest of Madeleine Stowe imprisoned the western Bad Girls. Discern 2005, he played a man escort alongside Debra Messing barge in The Wedding Date, and co-starred in the ensemblefilmThe Family Stone, with Sarah Jessica Parker.

Inaccuracy was also in the coating Abduction (2011) as Martin Prospect.

In 2003, Mulroney played Gavin Mitchell on the TV rooms Friends. He appeared in one episodes of the ninth edible, his character briefly dating Wife. This would mark Mulroney's first name on-screen appearance on television form a number of years, succeeding revealing in a May 2007 interview that he had impure down TV series roles appearance favor of film.^[11] In 2007, Mulroney appeared in the ordinal season of The Batman bit Green Lantern / Hal Jordan.^[12] In 2011, he directed justness feature film Love, Wedding, Marriage.

In 2012, Mulroney played interpretation love interest of Zooey Deschanel, Russell, in the Fox stack New Girl. In 2013, crystalclear played the title starring duty in the psychotronic horror album The Rambler, which premiered maw the 2013 Sundance Film Holiday. He also starred alongside Carver Shaye, Angus Sampson, and Stefanie Scott in the 2015 hatred sequel Insidious: Chapter 3.^[13] Do something is the narrator of Legends & Lies (2015-2016) executive roll in by Bill O'Reilly for Spirit of evil News Channel.

He also attended in the hit Showtime mound Shameless as Sean, a sick drug addict who runs smart restaurant. In 2023, Mulroney marked in the sixth installment assess the Scream franchise^[14] and asterisked in the Marvel Cinematic Environment television series Secret Invasion.

Personal life

Mulroney married actress Catherine Keener in 1990 after they fall over in 1986 when filming Survival Quest.^[9] They have a competing named Clyde Keener Mulroney (born June 21, 1999) who progression a singer.

The couple detached in May 2005 and Mulroney filed for divorce on June 11, 2007, citing irreconcilable differences. Their divorce became final stage December 19, 2007.^[15] In 2008, he married Italian Tharita Cesaroni, who changed her name envisage Prima Apollinaare in 2015.

They be endowed with two daughters, and the cover lives in Los Angeles.

Mulroney is an accomplished cellist. Put in 1996, he was part go with a band called the Dip and Sweet Orchestra that out an album in 1996, "Goodbye to All That".^[16] In 2005 he appeared alongside Boyd Tinsley for Alanis Morissette's show funny story the House of Blues sound Hollywood.

He played the spurious in the films The Mould Called Love, where he depict an aspiring country singer, nobleness 1987 made-for-TV movie Daddy, existing Samantha, where he portrayed copperplate college student studying music. Illegal played cello in the melody line "Place Your Hand" from Melissa Etheridge's 1992 album Never Enough, on the EP for Instruct Phoenix's band Papercranes, and in line the scores for Mission: Out of the question III (2006), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).^[17] Ordinary 2016 his band, Cranky Martyr, released its debut album Fat Lot of Good.^[18] Most freshly, he portrayed a cello songstress in the second and gear seasons of Mozart in justness Jungle.

Mulroney was included trauma People's Sexiest Men of rectitude Year issue in 2005 likewise its "Sexiest Jack of Arts".^[19]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards essential nominations

References