Mary McCormack Biography

Fast Facts

• At age 12, she made her stage debut playing a boy in a production of Amahl and the Night Visitors
• Studied acting at William Esper Studio in New York
• Made her feature-film debut in 1994's A Miracle on 34th Street
• Breakout movie performance was in 1997's Private Parts, playing Howard Stern's wife
• Performed for three New York theaters: the Atlantic Theatre Company, Alice's 4th Floor and Naked Angels
• Acted with her brother, Will McCormack, in the 1997 independent film comedy Colin Fitz
• Her Tony-nominated turn as Gretchen in the 2008 play Boeing-Boeing drew praise from the New York Times for her "glorious Olympian strut" and "take-no-prisoners stance
• " During her run as Mary Shannon on the cable crime drama, In Plain Sight, her character's pregnancy was written into the story
• "It's nice I think for women to see an actual pregnant person on TV," she explained; she gave birth to her third daugter in 2011