Patrick Dempsey

Trivia

• In 1987, Patrick Dempsey married Rocky Parker when he was only 21 and she was 48. They had no children together and divorced in 1994. Patrick claims that his best friend is actor Corey Parker, Rocky's son, who is just a year old than him.
• Since July 31, 1999, he has been married to Jill Fink. They have three children together -- twin boys Sullivan Patrick and Darby Galen (b. February 1, 2007), and a daughter named Tallulah Fyfe (b. February 20, 2002), whom they named after a little girl who once assisted him on a shopping expedition.
• He loves to remodel homes. In his spare time he also loves to collect antiques and ski.
• He appeared on the cover of the November 7-13, 2005 issue of TV Guide with his Grey's Anatomy co-star Ellen Pompeo, and again on the cover of the December 19-25 issue.
• If he could trade places with any man for a day, Patrick Dempsey would pick famous NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr..
• Patrick Dempsey's said that women most often comment on his hair, which his wife, Jillian Fink (then a salon owner), was used to be the only one whom he allowed to cut.
• During an episode of Grey's Anatomy, Patrick had to revive a cardiac arrest patient. He had been shown several times how to do it correctly, but when the cameras started to roll, Patrick pressed the chest of his male patient a little too hard and broke the extra's rib. He offered to pay the man's medical bills and a speaking part when he recovers.
• When he was a teen, Patrick dreamed of being a juggler and dreamed of attending Clown College. He mastered the skill during a power outage in high school and won 3rd place in the National Jugglers Convention. He also juggled for Barbara Walters during her 2006 Oscar Special.
• Patrick Dempsey's long-time race enthusiast and co-owner of Vision Racing, part of the Indy Racing Series, was the Grand Marshall of an IRS race at Texas Motor Speedway in 2006. He also participated in the Rolex Grand-Am Series 2008 races.
• He auditioned for the role of Dr. Robert Chase on House, M.D. Australian actor Jesse Spencer eventually got the part.

Quotes

• "One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever."
• "When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it."
• "I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family."
• "I think it's better to learn from actors who are working than study with actors who aren't working."
• "Now I’m just known as McDreamy, I’ve lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I’m now McDreamy."
• "Reading to my daughter has been therapeutic. I've gone back and started to learn to read on a very basic level. I'm reading Dr. Seuss, and I'm healing that part of myself, as well as developing my daughter."
• "It was nice to be in an environment where you're not that well known. Here in L.A., we can't go out without somebody taking pictures or videotaping us, which is ridiculous. Being in Europe gave us a sense of getting back top normal as a family. You're relaxed, not looking over your shoulder."
• "Darby came from the name of a punk-rock singer, Darby Crash from the Germs. My father had an uncle Galen that he liked, so I was named Patrick Galen. And Sullivan was what we were going to call Tallulah if she had been a boy. They're fun names and they fit the boys."
• "I'm loving it, and it surprises me because I like being alone, but at the same time, there is something really comforting in a house full of kids. Then I got home to projectile vomiting one night, and it was like, "Wow! Back to reality."
• "I don't think so. For a guy, you're better off to just accept age as it happens. But talk to me in 20 years, and we'll go from there."