Dermot Mulroney Biography

Dermot Mulroney (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor and director.

Early life

Mulroney was born in Alexandria, Virginia. His mother, Ellen, was a housewife and amateur actress originally from Manchester, Iowa, and his father, Michael Mulroney, was a law professor (and amateur racecar driver) at Villanova University School of Law, originally from Elkader, Iowa. He has a sister, Moira, and three brothers, Conor, Kieran (who is also an actor), and Sean. Moira formerly worked in the Philadelphia DA's office as an assistant district attorney and later at WXPN, an FM radio station in Philadelphia, but now works elsewhere in the non-profit industry. Some of Mulroney's ancestors immigrated from County Donegal and County Mayo in Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine; he is of mostly Irish descent, with more distant German ancestry. Mulroney attended Maury Elementary School and played cello in school and city youth orchestras, as well as acting in children's community theater. Mulroney attended the Interlochen Arts Camp as a cellist. He later attended T. C. Williams High School (grad. 1981) as well as Northwestern University (grad. 1985) in Evanston, Illinois, where he was a member of the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta.

Career

Most of his lead performances have been in romantic comedy films. Mulroney has appeared in many movies, including as the male lead in My Best Friend's Wedding alongside Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. He is probably best known for his western roles as either an outlaw or gunman. Mulroney co-starred in the 1988 western Young Guns, for which he is possibly best known, in which he played "Dirty Steve" alongside Emilio Estevez, and in 1994 he starred with Mickey Rourke in The Last Outlaw, which has since become a cult classic among western genre fans. Mulroney also played the love interest of Madeleine Stowe in the western Bad Girls. He first gained critical acclaim in the film Longtime Companion, portraying a young man with HIV during the early days of the outbreak of the virus, who becomes the first of his group of friends to succumb to the disease. He was also in the ensemble film The Family Stone starring Sarah Jessica Parker. In 2005, he played a "date-for-hire" character alongside Debra Messing in The Wedding Date. He was also in the movie Abduction as Martin Price.

Mulroney played Gavin Mitchell on the TV series, Friends. His character dated Rachel for one episode but they broke up when it became too complicated between them because of Ross. In 1993, he wrote the song "Someone Else's Used Guitar" for Peter Bogdanovich's The Thing Called Love. Mulroney also had a cameo in the Joaquin Phoenix directed video "Tired of Being Sorry" for Balthazar Getty's band Ringside. Mulroney also is credited as a song performer on the movie and for four other tunes, as well as acting in the movie. In 2007, Mulroney voiced Green Lantern Hal Jordan in the animated series The Batman in the season 5 episode "Ring Toss". He occasionally reads stories on the WBEZ Chicago Public Radio radio. In 2012, Mulroney played the love interest of Zooey Deschanel, Russell, in the Fox series New Girl. In 2013, he portrayed the titular starring role in the psychotronic horror film The Rambler, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

In 2011, Mulroney directed the film Love, Wedding, Marriage.

Personal life

Mulroney married actress Catherine Keener in 1990 after they met in 1987 when filming Survival Quest. The couple separated in May 2005 and filed for divorce June 11, 2007, citing irreconcilable differences. The divorce was final on December 19, 2007. They have a son named Clyde Keener Mulroney (born June 21, 1999).

Mulroney is an accomplished cellist, and in 2005 appeared alongside Boyd Tinsley for Alanis Morissette's show at the House of Blues in Hollywood. He played cello in the song "Place Your Hand" from Melissa Etheridge's 1992 album Never Enough, on the EP for Rain Phoenix's band papercranes, and on the score to Mission: Impossible III (2006) and Mission: Impossible " Ghost Protocol. Mulroney (cello and mandolin) and his brother Kieran (violin and accordion) were both members of the punk-folk band Low and Sweet Orchestra which included members of The Pogues and The Circle Jerks. He is now a member of Cranky George, together with his brother and James Fearnley of the Pogues.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	The Drug Knot		TV movie
1986	Sin of Innocence	Tim McGary	TV movie
1987	High School and Pregnant	Bobby	TV movie
1987	Long Gone	Jamie Weeks	TV movie
1988	Sunset	Michael Alperin
1988	Young Guns	Dirty Steve Stephens
1989	Staying Together	Kit McDermott
1989	Survival Quest	Gray
1989	Unconquered	Richmond Flowers Jr.	TV movie
1989	Longtime Companion	John
1990	Bright Angel	George	Won special jury prize for acting at Torino International Festival of Young Cinema
1991	Career Opportunities	Nestor Pyle
1992	Where the Day Takes You	King
1992	Samantha	Henry	Mulroney is featured playing the cello
1992	The Heart of Justice	Elliot Burgess	TV movie
1993	Point of No Return	J. P.
1993	'	Kyle Davidson
1994	Silent Tongue	Reeves McCree
1994	Bad Girls	Josh McCoy
1994	There Goes My Baby	Pirate
1994	Angels in the Outfield	Mr. Bomman (Roger's Dad)
1994	'	Eustis
1995	Copycat	Reuben Goetz
1995	How to Make an American Quilt	Sam
1995	Living in Oblivion	Wolf	Also associate producer
1996	'	Joe
1996	Kansas City	Johnny O'Hara
1996	Box of Moon Light	Wik
1996	Bastard Out of Carolina	Lyle Parsons
1997	My Best Friend's Wedding	Michael O'Neal
1999	Goodbye Lover	Jake Dunmore
2000	Trixie	Dex Lang
2000	Where the Money Is	Wayne
2001	'	Jim Train
2001	Investigating Sex	Edgar
2001	Lovely & Amazing	Kevin McCabe
2002	About Schmidt	Randall Hertzel
2004	Undertow	John Munn
2004	Hair High	Rod	Voice only
2005	'	Nick Mercer
2005	Must Love Dogs	Bob Connor
2005	'	Everett Stone
2006	Griffin & Phoenix	Henry Griffin
2007	Dante's Inferno	Dante	Voice only
2007	Zodiac	Captain Marty Lee
2007	Georgia Rule	Dr. Simon Ward
2007	Gracie	Bryan Bowen
2008	Jolene	Uncle Phil
2008	Burn After Reading	Star of "Coming Up Daisy"
2008	'	Dr. David Henry	TV movie
2008	Flash of Genius	Gil Previck
2010	Inhale	Paul Stanton	Also known as Run for Her Life
2011	Abduction	Martin Price
2011	J. Edgar	Colonel Schwarzkopf
2011	Silent Witness	Tony Lord	TV movie
2012	Struck by Lightning	Neal Phillips
2012	The Grey	Talget
2012	Big Miracle	Colonel Scott Boyer
2012	Trade of Innocents	Alex Becker
2013	Space Warriors	Andy Hawkins
2013	Stoker	Richard Stoker
2013	The Rambler	The Rambler
2013	Jobs	Mike Markkula
2013	August: Osage County	Steve Heidebrecht

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Fame	Max	Episode: "Losin' It"
1986	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Doug Dawson	Episode: " The Drug Knot"
2003	Friends	Gavin Mitchell	3 episodes
2007"2008	The Batman	Green Lantern / Hal Jordan	Voices 3 episodes
2012"2013	New Girl	Russell	5 episodes
2012	Saturday Night Live	Himself	Episode: "Jamie Foxx/Ne-Yo"
2013	Enlightened	Jeff Flender	Recurring (Season 2); 6 episodes
2014	Crisis	Bill Gibson	Main Role