Dermot Mulroney

Dermot Mulroney
Born: Oct 31, 1963
Alexandria, VA
Career: 1986-2008
Countries: USA
Genre/Type: Comedy Drama
Comedy
Drama
Biography by Rebecca Flint Marx
An actor whose versatility is matched by the unpredictability of many of his career choices, Dermot Mulroney has been appearing in films since the early 1990s. Born in Alexandria, Virginia, on October 31, 1963, Mulroney developed an early interest in acting. After graduating from Northwestern University in 1985, he began acting in a number of made-for-TV movies, playing young men caught up in problematic teen romances in both Sin of Innocence (1986) and Daddy (1987). In 1988 he made his film debut in the Brat Pack western Young Guns, portraying one of the titular group of Old West gunslingers.

Despite the success of Young Guns, Mulroney remained a relative unknown, appearing in a number of forgettable films. One exception was Longtime Companion (1990), a seminal AIDS drama that cast him as a young man who becomes one of the virus' earliest casualties. The actor continued to pop up in films of widely varying subject matter, to say nothing of quality, starring in everything from teen comedies (Career Opportunities, 1991) to westerns (Bad Girls, 1994) to thrillers (Copy Cat, 1995) to chick flicks (How to Make an American Quilt, 1995). He also enjoyed a collaboration with director Tom Di Cillo, starring (and in the first case, associate producing) Di Cillo's Living in Oblivion (1995) and Box of Moonlight (1996). In 1997, Mulroney had one of his most high-profile roles to date as Julia Roberts' titular best friend in My Best Friend's Wedding, a successful black comedy that also starred Cameron Diaz and Rupert Everett.

Mulroney has also benefited from his collaborations with Di Cillo for more personal reasons: for some years he has been married to Catherine Keener, an actress often cited as the director's muse.

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Filmography

Movie/Film Released Rating Role Buy
Burn After Reading 2008 Actor [Starring]
Flash of Genius 2008 Actor [Starring]
The Memory Keeper's Daughter 2008 Actor [Starring]
Dante's Inferno 2007 Voice [Starring]
Georgia Rule 2007 Actor [Starring]
Gracie 2007 Actor [Starring]
Jolene 2007 Actor [Starring]
Zodiac 2007 Actor [Starring]
Griffin & Phoenix 2006 Actor [Starring]
God Grew Tired of Us 2005 Co-producer
Must Love Dogs 2005 Actor [Starring]
The Family Stone 2005 Actor [Starring]
The Wedding Date 2005 Actor [Starring]
Hair High 2004 Voice [Starring]
Undertow 2004 Actor [Starring]
Friends: The One Where Monica Sings 2003 Actor [Starring]
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Dermot Mulroney Born: Oct 31, 1963

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