Eric Mabius Biography

Eric Harry Timothy Mabius (born April 22, 1971) is an American actor known for his work as Daniel Meade on the ABC television series Ugly Betty. He also worked on the Showtime series The L Word and in the films Resident Evil and Cruel Intentions.

Life and career

Personal life

Mabius was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Elizabeth and Craig Mabius. His father worked as a historian preserving the Historic Allaire Village. He has a brother, Craig. Mabius is Roman Catholic and has Irish, Austrian and Polish ancestry. After attending Amherst Regional High School, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he was voted "Most Dramatic Boy" as a senior, he enrolled in Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, where he pursued studies in film.

Mabius wed Ivy Sherman in January 2006; the two first met in high school during a health education class. They have two sons: Maxfield Elliot was born on June 24, 2006 and Rylan Jaxson was born on December 7, 2008.

Career

Mabius began his career in the independent films Welcome to the Dollhouse in 1995, and I Shot Andy Warhol, alongside Lili Taylor, in 1996. He was involved with The Crow franchise on more than one occasion: he auditioned for a role as one of Top Dollar's henchmen in the 1993 original Crow and played Alex Corvis in The Crow: Salvation, the third installment, opposite Kirsten Dunst. He was in Cruel Intentions alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe. He also played an activist named Matt Addison in 2002's Resident Evil.

In television, Mabius has appeared on Chicago Hope, Millennium, Popular, The O.C., and the short-lived series Eyes. He was a regular cast member of The L Word in its first season and returned for one episode in each of the second, third, and sixth seasons. He also guest starred on an episode of CSI: Miami. From 2006 to 2010 he starred as fashion magazine editor Daniel Meade on the hit ABC dramedy series Ugly Betty. After the success of Ugly Betty, he was included on People magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive" list in 2006. Mabius has also appeared in a Lifetime movie titled A Christmas Wedding, and had a leading role in the 2011 British science-fiction drama Outcasts.

Politics

In 2008, Mabius made an appearance in the pro-Barack Obama music video by will.i.am titled "We Are the Ones" alongside Jessica Alba, Macy Gray, George Lopez, Ryan Phillippe, Kerry Washington, John Leguizamo, Tichina Arnold, Regina King, Tyrese Gibson, Adrianne Palicki and Zoe Kravitz.

Other honors

Mabius competed as a luger in the late 1980s and was named an honorary captain for the US luge team for the 2010 Winter Olympics along with astronaut Scott Parazynski.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Welcome to the Dollhouse	Steve Rodgers
1995	'	Hal Wright
1996	I Shot Andy Warhol	Revolutionary no. 2
1996	Harvest of Fire	Sam Hostetler	Television film
1996	On Seventh Avenue	Bass player	Television film
1997	Black Circle Boys	Shane Carver
1997	'	Bar patron 2/Clyde's sidekick
1997	Lawn Dogs	Sean Torrance
1998	Myth America
1998	Around the Fire	Andrew
1999	'	Gene
1999	Splendor	Ernest
1999	Cruel Intentions	Greg McConnell
2000	Wirey Spindell	Wirey, age 17
2000	'	Alex Corvis/The Crow
2001	Tempted	Ted
2001	On the Borderline	Luke
2002	Resident Evil	Matt Addison
2002	Dancing at the Harvest Moon	John Keats Fleming	Television film
2003	Just Like You Imagined	Gender Shifter	Short film
2003	'	Darby
2003	'	Rick
2005	Venice Underground	Danny
2005	Reeker	Radford
2006	Voodoo Moon	Cole	Television film
2006	'	Ben	Television film
2007	Nature of the Beast	Donovan	Television film
2011	Where the Road Meets the Sun	Blake
2012	Price Check	Pete Cozy
2012	How to Fall in Love	Harold White	Television film
2013	Reading Writing & Romance	Wayne Wenders	Television film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Chicago Hope	Zeb Moser	Episode: "...And the Hand Played on"
1999	Millennium	Samiel	Episode: "Borrowed Time"
1999	Party of Five	Brian Stilman	2 episodes
2000	Get Real	Andrew Clark	Episode: "Guilt"
2000	Popular	Coach Casey Krupps	Episode: "The Sweetest Taboo"
2003	Fastlane	Trey	Episode: "Dogtown"
2004"2006, 2009	'	Tim Haspel	Main cast (season 1); guest star (seasons 2"3, 6); 16 episodes
2005, 2007	Eyes	Jeff McCann	Main cast; 10 episodes
2005	'	Dean Jack Hess	4 episodes
2006	CSI: Miami	FBI Agent Perry	Episode: "One of Our Own"
2006"2010	Ugly Betty	Daniel Meade	Main cast
2011	Bird Dog	Tim Burke	Unsold TNT pilot
2011	Outcasts	Julius Berger	Main cast
2011	Chase	Justin Tate	Episode: "Father Figure"
2011	Celebrity Ghost Stories	Himself	Episode: "Mickey Rooney/Eric Mabius/Brande Roderick/Kim Coles"
2012	'	Ray	Episode: "Acting Up"
2012	Franklin & Bash	Rossi	Episode: "Jango and Rossi"
2012	Political Animals	Gary	Episode: "Second Time Around"
2012	'	Himself	Episode: "Eric Mabius"
2013	Scandal	Peter Caldwell	Episode: "Boom Goes the Dynamite"
2013	Blue Bloods	Richard Rorke	Episode: "Quid Pro Quo"

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2007	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series	Ugly Betty	rowspan=3
2008
	PRISM Award	Performance in a Comedy Series
2011	Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival	Special Jury Prize: Best Ensemble	Where the Road Meets the Sun