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Personal Profile

Patrick Dempsey
  • Birth Name:
    Patrick Galen Dempsey
  • Nickname:
    Dr. McDreamy
  • Date of Birth:
    January 13, 1966
  • Place of Birth:
    Lewiston, Maine, USA
  • Height:
    5' 10½"
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Hair Color:
    Brown
  • Eye Color:
    Blue
  • Nationality:
    American
  • Education:
    St. Dominic's Regional High School, Lewiston, Maine 

Family

Patrick Dempsey
  • Spouse:
    Jill Fink - Present
    Rocky Parker - Divorced
  • Son:
    Darby Galen Dempseya, Sullivan Patrick Dempsey
  • Daughter:
    Tallula Fyfe Dempsey

Career

Patrick Dempsey

Awards

Patrick Dempsey

2008 : People's Choice Award, Favorite Male TV Star

2007 : People's Choice Award, Favorite Male TV Star

1988 : Young Artist Award, Best Young Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy
for : Can't Buy Me Love

Trivia

Patrick Dempsey
  • 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.
    submitted by - Amit Kher
  • 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.
    submitted by - Amit Kher
  • He loves to remodel homes. In his spare time he also loves to collect antiques and ski.
    submitted by - Amitabh Dhiman
  • 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.
    submitted by - Amit Rank
  • If he could trade places with any man for a day, Patrick Dempsey would pick famous NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr..
    submitted by - Chotu Dhiman

Quotes

Patrick Dempsey
  • One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever. - Unknown
    submitted by - Soha Ali
  • 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. - Unknown
    submitted by - suresh kumar
  • 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. - Unknown
    submitted by - Mandy John
  • I think it's better to learn from actors who are working than study with actors who aren't working. - Unknown
    submitted by - Chotu Dhiman
  • Now I’m just known as McDreamy, I’ve lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I’m now McDreamy. - Unknown
    submitted by - Amit Kher

Biography

Patrick Dempsey
Last Updated: Friday, November 06, 2009

Patrick DempseyFor someone whose acting career was at a virtual standstill for about a decade, Patrick Dempsey may hold the bragging rights to having arguably one of the greatest career comeback stories of his time. Famous for starring in the '80s romantic-comedy hits Can't Buy Me Love, Some Girls, Loverboy, and Happy Together, Dempsey found it difficult to move forward from his pigeonholed teenage characters to more mature roles during the '90s. It was only after his appearance opposite Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama (2002) that his fading career was jolted back into life.

In 2005, Patrick Dempsey once again achieved Hollywood heartthrob status as he portrayed the role of Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd in the popular medical drama, Grey's Anatomy. Patrick, who as a child had his difficulties in school, made up for his academic deficiency by focusing his efforts and energy towards other endeavors. As a teen, he engaged and excelled in skiing, unicycle riding, and juggling, the activity which he considers gave him purpose and led him towards the performing arts. During the early 1980s, Dempsey went to New York to enter a talent competition and eventually found himself an agent.

Patrick Dempsey's first professional acting job was playing David in the San Francisco production of Torch Song Trilogy. Skipping acting school altogether, he continued with stage acting and toured playing Eugene Jerome in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. In 1985, Patrick first appeared on the big screen with Heaven Help Us followed by a slew of "rom-com" flicks in the late 80s and a starring role as Mike Damone on Cameron Crowe's high school comedy Fast Times.

Patrick DempseyIn the 1990s, apart from the film With Honors (1994), where he starred alongside Joe Pesci, Brendan Fraser, and Moira Kelly as the eccentric yet charming playboy Everett Calloway, Patrick never made a significant stride in his movie career. After a long list of unremarkable made-for-TV movie credits, Dempsey decided to return to Maine, where he bought and restored a farm. In 2000, the resurrection of his career began to take form as he was cast as Sela Ward's schizophrenic brother in the ABC family drama Once and Again, which earned him an Emmy nomination in 2001.

He also made multiple appearances on Will & Grace (2001) as a gay customer in the clothing outlet where Jack McFarland worked, and on The Practice (2004) as "wolf-in-sheep's-clothing" doctor on trial for malpractice. The medical coat seemed to suit Dempsey well as his acting career was fully resuscitated on the Fall of 2005 when he landed the role of a lifetime as the brilliant and charismatic Seattle Grace neurosurgeon, Derek Shepherd, on the award-winning series, Grey's Anatomy, where his romantic onscreen relationship with Meredith Grey (played by Ellen Pompeo) has drawn phenomenal fan support and fame.

Filmography

Patrick Dempsey