Paul McCrane

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name = Paul McCrane
birthname = Paul David McCrane
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birthplace = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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spouse = Dana Kellin (1998 - present), 2 children
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Paul David McCrane (born January 19, 1961) is a Grammy Award-nominated American movie, television and theatre actor, as well as an occasional television director. His roles include Emil Antonowsky in "RoboCop", Montgomery MacNeil in "Fame", Astronaut Pete Conrad in "From the Earth to the Moon", cancer-absorbing mutant Leonard Betts in "The X-Files" and Dr. Robert Romano on "ER". More recently, he has guest-starred in "24", season 5 and 6 as Graem Bauer. He has also appeared on Ugly Betty.

Biography

Personal life

McCrane was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Eileen C. (née Manyak), a nurse, and James J. McCrane, Jr., an actor and writer. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/21/Paul-McCrane.html Paul McCrane Biography (1961-) ] ] His family moved to Richboro, PA, where he lived until he moved to New York City after graduating from Holy Ghost Preparatory School. He has a brother, Jim, and three sisters, Maureen, Barbara, and Deirdre. [ [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1804501476/bio Paul McCrane Biography - Yahoo! Movies ] ] He married Dana Kellin, a jewelry designer, in 1998. They have two children, William Thomas, and Noa Catherine.

Career

McCrane has been known to take roles where his characters experience horrible pain and injury or violent deathOr|date=September 2008:
*Ironically, in his first role in Rocky II in 1979, he played the "Young Patient" in a body cast and in a wheelchair where he uttered the "classic" line, "Rocky, would you sign my head?"
*Emil Antonowsky in "RoboCop" was horribly disfigured by toxic waste before being run over by a car.
*In the 1988 remake of "The Blob," his character (Deputy Briggs) is dissolved by the infamous creature.
*Robert Romano (1997-2003) in "ER" had his arm severed by the anti-torque rotor of a helicopter and was later crushed to death by another chopper
*Leonard Betts from "The X-Files" was decapitated in an ambulance crash, only to regrow his head and soon get blown up in a car later in the episode. He was finally killed by Scully when she shocked him on his head by a defibrillator.
*In the 5th episode of "24" Day 6, after his character is reunited with his brother (federal agent Jack Bauer), Jack suddenly punches him, binds his hands, and proceeds to place a plastic bag over his head. After Jack interrogates him by torturing him with a neurological inflammatory, he confesses to being behind the deaths of David Palmer, Tony Almeda, and Michelle Dessler and admits that this wasn't the first time he tried to kill Jack. The episode ends with their father secretly injecting a fatal air embolism into McCrane's character.

The notable exceptions to this pattern were McCrane's role as Montgomery MacNeil in "Fame", a sensitive aspiring actor coming to terms with his homosexuality, and his role as Apollo astronaut Pete Conrad in the HBO Mini-Series "From the Earth to the Moon". However, Conrad was subject to a number of constant discomforts. Following his acting departure from "ER", McCrane has directed several episodes of the show, and has also directed episodes of "Without A Trace", "The West Wing" and "".

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