Always a good guy stand-out amidst the bad boys of the infamous 1980s cinematic “Brat Pack,” Andrew... (Learn more)
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Andrew McCarthy’s Milestones
| First stage appearance as the Artful Dodger in a high school production of "Oliver!" | |
| Off-Broadway debut in Albert Innaurato's "Herself as Lust" | |
| Raised in Westfield, New Jersey | |
| Worked Off-Broadway at Circle in the Square and Ensemble Studio Theatre | |
| 1983 | Film debut in "Class" opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Rob Lowe |
| 1985 | Broadway debut, "The Boys of Winter" |
| 1985 | Featured in "St Elmo's Fire" among an ensemble of twentysomething actors later dubbed the 'Brat Pack' |
| 1986 | Starred opposite Molly Ringwald in John Hughes' successful "Pretty in Pink" |
| 1986 | TV debut as guest on the anthology series, "Amazing Stories" in an episode directed by Timothy Hutton |
| 1987 | Acted on stage in "Bodies, Rest and Motion" |
| 1987 | Scored surprising box office hit with Michael Gottlieb's "Mannequin" |
| 1988 | Again starred opposite Molly Ringwald in the little seen "Fresh Horses" |
| 1989 | Teamed with Jonathan Silverman for the comedy "Weekend at Bernie's" |
| 1991 | Played expatriate journalist in John Frankenheimer's "Year of the Gun" |
| 1993 | Appeared in supporting role in Wayne Wang's "The Joy Luck Club" |
| 1993 | With Silverman, reprised part in the lame sequel "Weekend at Bernie's II" |
| 1994 | Portrayed shell-shocked first husband of Dorothy Parker in Alan Rudolph's "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" |
| 1996 | Co-starred in "Mulholland Falls" |
| 1996 | Made American TV-movie debut opposite Julie Harris in Christmas Tree" (ABC); directed by Sally Field |
| 1998 | Offered a strong performance as an adoptive father who fights to retain custody of his daughter in "A Father for Brittany" (CBS) |
| 1999 | Co-starred as the washed up actor son of a dying man in the satirical "I'm Losing You" |
| 1999 | Had featured role in "The Death of Papa" at the Hartford Stage |
| 1999 | Played Jamie Tyrone in a Hartford Stage production of "Long Day's Journey Into Night" |
| 1999 | Portrayed a teacher who assists a young girl escape from her stifling home town in "New Waterford Girl" |
| 1999 | Returned to the NYC stage playing the narrator Clifford in the award-winning Broadway play "Side Man" |
| 2000 | Co-starred in the Showtime remake of "A Storm in Summer" |
| 2000 | Had lead in British TV pilot "The Sight"; aired on FX in the USA |
| 2000 | Made guest appearance in the season finale of NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" |
| 2000 | Portrayed Robert F Kennedy in the CBS drama "Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis" |
| 2001 | Co-starred with Elizabeth Ashley in a stage production of "The Glass Menagerie" at Hartford Stage |
| 2004 | Played Dr. Hook, a gifted but distinctly pragmatic surgeon in Stephen King's "Kingdom Hospital" |
| 2008 | Cast in a recurring role as billionaire Joe Bennett in the NBC drama "Lipstick Jungle" |
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