50 facts about handsome Dermot Mulroney you know from My Best Friend's Wedding and The Wedding Date

Handsome actor Dermot Mulroney and 50 facts from his private life and acting career.

1. Starred with Julia Roberts in My Best Friend's Wedding.

2. Embarked on a Hollywood career after impressing a visiting talent agent in college.

3. His breaktout role was in the 1988 western Young Guns.

4. You won't believe this but Mulroney is an accomplished cello player.

5. He is the third of five children.

6. His father Michael is a tax law professor and amateur racecar driver.

7. His mother Ellen is a former actress. Looks like her son inherited the talent.

8. Began playing the cello at age 7, and started performing with youth orchestra and community theater groups.

9. He studied film and television production at Northwestern University.

10. Prior to his graduation after impressing a visiting agent from Hollywood's William Morris Agency he moved to Los Angeles with major representation already in tow.

11. Received critical acclaim for his role as a gay man who dies from AIDS in the 1990 drama Longtime Companion.

12. In The Thing Called Love Dermot showed off his musical abilities by writing and performing the song "Someone Else's Used Guitar."

13. Played Bridget Fonda's boyfriend in Point of No Return.

14. Has become more of a familiar to the viewers of television, with roles on the sitcom New Girl and the HBO drama Enlightened.

15. Met actress Catherine Keener in 1987 while on set for Survival Quest.

16. Married Catherine Keener in 1990.

17. The couple had one son, Clyde Keener.

18. The married with Keener didn't last as the couple divorced in 2007 citing irreconcilable differences.

19. In 2008, he married his second wife, Tharita Catulle.

20. He has two daughters with Catulle.

21. Remained an active musician throughout the years.

22. Played cello on a song for Melissa Etheridge's 1992 album Never Enough.

23. Contributed to the scores for Mission Impossible III (2006) and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011).

24. He can also play mandolin, guitar and cymbals.

25. He is part of band Cranky George, alongside one of his brothers.

26. Has a sister, Moira, and three brothers, Conor, Kieran and Sean.

27. His brother Kieran is also an actor.

28. Hi sister Moira formerly worked in the Philadelphia DA's office as an assistant district attorney, and later at WXPN, an FM radio station in Philadelphia.

29. Some of Mulroney's ancestors immigrated from County Donegal and County Mayo in Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine; he is of seven eighths Irish, and one eighth German, ancestry.

30. As child he acted in children's community theater.

31. He was a member of the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta during his college years at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

32. People mostly remember him from romanic comedies like About Schmidt, My Best Friend's Wedding, and The Wedding Date alongside Debra Messing.

33. Mulroney played Gavin Mitchell on the TV series, Friends. His character dated Rachel for one episode.

34. Voiced Green Lantern Hal Jordan in the animated series The Batman in the season 5 episode "Ring Toss".

35. Occasionally reads stories on the WBEZ Chicago Public Radio radio.

36. in 2005 appeared alongside Boyd Tinsley for Alanis Morissette's show at the House of Blues in Hollywood. He played chelo.

37. Trade of Innocents movies opened his eyes to the trafficking of children for the sex trade. He said the script for the movie was also a teaching tool for him.

38. He found that long hours, intense heat, tough locations and the content itself were the most difficult things to wreckno with during filming Trade of Innocents.

39. In research for this film, he met with a man, like Alex Becker, who works with NGOs and investigates and prosecutes human traffickers.

40. has played many different characters including the handsome boyfriend, a police captain, the father to a teenage girl being targeted by a supernatural entity to name a few.

41. Played in the horror film "Insidious."

42. His birthday is on Halloween.

43. Watched Halloween movie in the theater with bunch of friends and was so scared he pulled one of the braces off his teeth.

44. Got scared when he saw the trailer for It's Alive. He never watched that movie, he only have seen the trailer but it was enough for him.

45. Known for crooked smile and rugged good looks.

46. Mulroney has been seen in over 70 films.

47. He plays with the scoring orchestras on many films for Academy Award winning composers such as James Newton Howard and Michael Giacchino.

48. Formerly in bands "The Low & Sweet Orchestra" and "Cranky George".

49. Starred together with his brother in the John Hughes comedy, Career Opportunities (1991) with Jennifer Connelly and Frank Whaley.

50. He and his younger brother, Sean Mulroney, are owners of "The Double Door", one of Chicago's more popular music clubs.