Dermot Patrick Mulroney born October 31, is an American actor and musician. He is known for his roles in romantic comedy , western , and drama films. Mulroney was born in Alexandria, Virginia , on Halloween Day in His father, Michael Mulroney, from Elkader, Iowa , was a law professor at Villanova University School of Law beginning in the s, prior to which he had a private practice in tax law for thirty years in Washington, D.
His mother, Ellen, originally from Manchester, Iowa , was a regional theater actress. He has two older brothers, Conor and Sean; a younger brother, Kieran Mulroney , who is an actor and screenwriter; and a younger sister, Moira. Mulroney attended Matthew Maury Elementary School and played cello in school and city youth orchestras, as well as acted in children's community theater. Williams High School class of in Alexandria, Virginia. And I tripped and it broke, and I fell on it. In his senior year in college, Mulroney responded to a sign-up sheet and auditioned in front of WMA agent Barbara Gale, [ 3 ] who offered him a contract and asked him to relocate to Hollywood.
There, Mulroney auditioned for three months before landing the role of the male lead in his debut in Sin of Innocence. In , he appeared in Survival Quest , during which he met Catherine Keener. While filming, in , [ 3 ] Keener was caught in a river current and floated precariously close to whitewater rapids when Mulroney jumped in and the pair were picked up half a mile downstream.
The two eventually married in Mulroney co-starred in the comedy-drama films: Staying Together ; The Thing Called Love , the second of two collaborations with River Phoenix before his death; and There Goes My Baby , originally filmed in Several of his lead performances have been in romantic comedy films.
In Mulroney played "J. Mulroney also played the love interest of Madeleine Stowe in the western Bad Girls. He was also in the film Abduction as Martin Price. He appeared in three episodes of the ninth season , his character briefly dating Rachel. This would mark Mulroney's last on-screen appearance on television for a number of years, later revealing in a May interview that he had turned down TV series roles in favor of film. In , he played the title starring role in the psychotronic horror film The Rambler , which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
