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Dylan McDermott Biography

Dylan McDermott

A Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee, Dylan McDermott has proved his talent in film, television, and theater.

Most recently, McDermott can be seen in Christopher B. Landon's Burning Palms opposite Zoe Saldana and Rosamund Pike. The movie is a subversive tale that interlaces five stories (told in vignettes) where no taboo is left unexplored. Framed as a graphic novel come to life, the film unfolds in five popular neighborhoods of Los Angeles as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate. The film was released by New Films International in Los Angeles and New York on January 14, 2011.

In 2008, McDermott starred with Maura Tierney in Nicky Silver's Three Changes, a play that follows an uncomfortably married Upper West Side couple. Additionally, in September 2006, McDermott was on stage in Eve Ensler's play The Treatment. Ensler's play explored the relationship between a traumatized former military interrogator (McDermott) and his psychologist colonel who is assigned to give him routine treatment. The play opened the Impact Festival 2006, a New York City–wide arts festival as part of the Culture Project. McDermott was nominated for a Drama League Award for his performance.

Additional film credits include The Pang Brothers' The Messengers, Wonderland, Home for the Holidays, Steel Magnolias, Hamburger Hill, Miracle on 34th Street, and In The Line of Fire.

McDermott's television credits include the Jerry Bruckheimer–produced TNT drama Dark Blue, ABC's Big Shots, TNT's dramatic limited series The Grid opposite Julianna Margulies, and David E. Kelley's Emmy Award–winning series The Practice, earning him a Golden Globe in 1999 and nominations in 2000 and 2001 as well as an Emmy nomination in 1999.

Other theater credits include Neil Simon's production of Biloxi Blues on Broadway and Golden Boy directed by Joanne Woodward at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.