| Patrick Dempsey continues to have a successful career
that spans all mediums. He recently co-starred opposite Hilary Swank and Angelica
Huston in HBO's Iron Jawed Angels, a film about the suffragist movement in the
'20s, playing a political cartoonist, Ben Weisman, who supported the movement.
He nabbed an Emmy nomination in 2001 for his portrayal of Aaron Brooks,
Sela Ward's psychologically unbalanced brother in the critically acclaimed television
series, Once and Again. On Will and Grace he portrayed Matthew, a sportscaster
and love interest of Will's. He also starred opposite Ben Kingsley in a TV movie
based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel, Crime and Punishment. Other TV movies
and miniseries include JFK: Reckless Youth, A Season in Purgatory, Blood Knot,
The Right to Remain Silent, Shallow Grave, Blonde, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,
with Michael Caine, and the biblical epic Jeremiah, with Oliver Reed. On
the big screen Dempsey starred opposite Reese Witherspoon in Disney's romantic
comedy, Sweet Home Alabama, and with Kevin Kline in the Universal drama, The Emperor's
Club. Other feature film credits include Wes Craven's Scream 3, with Neve Campbell,
Courteney Cox, David Arquette and Parker Posey; Can't Buy Me Love, With Honors,
Outbreak, Hugo Pool, Loverboy, Heaven Help Us, Mobsters and In the Mood. He
first appeared onstage as David in the San Francisco production of Torch Song
Trilogy. Other early stage work includes On Golden Pond for the Maine Acting Company,
the international touring production of Brighton Beach Memoirs, directed by Gene
Saks, and The Subject Was Roses at the Roundabout Theatre in New York. He recently
took the stage as Algernon Moncrieff in the Pasadena Playhouse run of The Importance
of Being Earnest. Dempsey was born and raised in Lewiston, Maine. He now
lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter. - description by ABC.com |
