Dylan McDermott
- Born: 26 Oct, 1961
A strikingly handsome and skilled actor with classic movie star poise and manner, dark-haired, blue-eyed Dylan McDermott hit many professional snags before beginning to reach his leading man potential. Interestingly, television served as the medium where the actor would gain popular and critical notice, after a string of failed studio films and quirky independents didn't do the trick. The son of a New York bar owner, McDermott started as a stage actor under the tutelage of stepmother and modernist playwright Eve Ensler and was signed by an agent who spotted him on Broadway in "Biloxi Blues" (1985). He made his big screen debut as a sergeant in the Vietnam drama "Hamburger Hill" (1987), then marked time in the small noir comedies "The Blue Iguana" (1988) and &q...
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FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- grandmother : helped to raise McDermott and his sister
- father Richard McDermott: owned New York's West Fourth Street Saloon; was 17 when McDermott was born
- mother : died c. 1968; she was shot to death by her live-in boyfriend; was 15 when she had McDermott
- step-mother Eve Ensler: born c. 1953; legally adopted McDermott when he was 19 years old; divorced from Richard McDermott
- sister Robin McDermott:
- daughter Colette McDermott: born in May 1996; mother, Shiva Afshar
- Julia Roberts: met during filming of "Steel Magnolias"; briefly engaged c. 1990
- Melissa Gilbert: dated briefly
- wife Shiva Afshar: married c. 1995
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