Dylan McDermott Biography

Fast Facts

• Was raised by his maternal grandmother after his parents divorced and his mother was murdered by her boyfriend in 1967
• His mother's death was considered accidental until 2012 when the case was reopened and police concluded it was homicide
• Had to change his first name when he registered with the Screen Actors Guild because there was already a Mark McDermott; he chose Dylan as a tribute to his then-stepmother, Eve Ensler (who wrote The Vagina Monologues), because she had miscarried a baby she had planned to name Dylan
• Studied acting in New York with Sanford Meisner
• Made People Magazine's list of 50 most beautiful people in 1998
• Appeared in Ensler's play The Treatment in New York in 2006
• Had a photography exhibit in Montreal in 2013