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50 interesting facts about actor and musician John Corbett.
1. His self-titled debut album, released in 2006, climbed to No. 42 on Billboard's Country Albums chart.
2. He rose to fame as Cicely, Alaska's resident radio deejay on the "Northern Exposure" TV series.
3. Has his own Funbone Records label.
4. He never thought he could make a living making music. "I never for a second dreamed that I could make a living making music, except probably when I was a freshman in high school and would daydream about what it would be like to be in Kiss or Styx or something," he admits, laughing. "But I always had a guitar with me."
5. His mom bought him his first guitar when he was about 7 years old.
6. His mother ignited his enduring passion for Elvis when she gave him his first guitar.
7. He owns Elvis' birth record-handwritten by the doctor who delivered him in Tupelo, Miss.
8. Corbett also swears allegiance to the Rolling Stones, Tom Petty and Aerosmith, plus Garth Brooks, Glen Campbell, Waylon Jennings and Buck Owens.
9. He discovered acting at a community college.
10. He also does voice-over work, notably for Walgreen's.
11. His full name is John Joseph Corbett, Jr.
12. He is an actor and country music singer.
13. He is best known for playing Chris Stevens on Northern Exposure from 1990 to 1995; and Aidan, Carrie Bradshaw's boyfriend, on Sex and the City-a role which he reprised for the series movie sequel Sex and the City 2.
14. He also played the leading male role opposite Nia Vardalos in Vardalos's film, My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
15. He starred in United States of Tara as Max Gregson, and has appeared on NBC dramedy Parenthood as Seth Holt.
16. Corbett started his acting career in television commercials, and in recent years, he has done TV and radio voiceovers for Applebee's Restaurants and Walgreens drug stores, among others.
17. Aside from acting, Corbett has recorded and released two country music albums.
18. Corbett was born in Wheeling, West Virginia on May 9, 1961.
19. He lived with his mother in an apartment block near the Ohio River in West Virginia.
20. His mother was a waitress who worked in his uncle's music club.
21. Corbett attended Wheeling Central Catholic High School where he graduated in 1979.
22. At 16 he had a job as a security guard at the Capitol Music Hall.
23. Following his graduation from high school, Corbett moved to California, and worked in a steel factory for six years.
24. During his time as a boilermaker in the factory, Corbett spent a year training to become an L.A. County Deputy Sheriff, but ultimately failed.
25. He stopped working at the factory when he got injured, and went to Cerritos College in Norwalk, California.
26. Studied hair dressing, for a year. Corbett said: "I went to hair school by day and studied theatre at night."
27. He is a licensed hair stylist since 1986.
28. He landed a Samsung commercial, and after three years he had starred in 50 national commercials.
29. Corbett's first major role was as the hippie boyfriend of Karen Arnold in season 1, episode 4 ("Angel"), of The Wonder Years in 1988, but was credited as "Jack Corbett."
30. Corbett has co-starred in three successful television series to date: Northern Exposure from 1990 to 1995, Sex and the City, and United States of Tara.
31. Corbett played the leading role in two short-lived television series. The first was the 1997 sci-fi series, The Visitor, in which Corbett played Adam MacArthur, a man abducted by aliens, only to find his way home 50 years later and endowed with unearthly powers.
32. In 2003 he starred in his second series, Lucky, which was about a professional poker player, Michael 'Lucky' Linkletter, living in Las Vegas.
33. Corbett guest starred on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives as a hospital administrator for two episodes in late-December 1995 and two episodes in early March 1996.
34. Corbett's film credits include Tombstone, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Raising Helen, Dreamland and The Messengers.
35. Corbett appeared in Serendipity with John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale, and he played the role of a music teacher in Raise Your Voice, which starred Hilary Duff.
36. He had a cameo role as Ken Roloff in Dinner Rush.
37. Additionally, Corbett starred in the 2007 Lifetime Television film, Montana Sky, and co-starred as a corrupt LAPD vice squad member in Street Kings.
38. Corbett starred as Tom Marks, father of a little girl fighting for her life, in the Hallmark movie "November Christmas" that premiered November 28, 2010, on CBS.
39. Corbett co-starred in the 2009-2011 Showtime series, United States of Tara opposite Toni Collette.
40. In 2011-12, he had a recurring role on Parenthood.
41. In March 2013, Corbett appeared in two episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles and was considered to be the star of a NCIS spin-off series that was ultimately not produced.
42. Corbett released a full-length, self-titled country music album co-produced in Nashville, TN, by D. Scott Miller and Tara Novick, on April 4, 2006, and went on tour that year to promote the album, opening for ZZ Top, Lisa Marie Presley and Charlie Daniels.
43. In addition Corbett was featured as a primary actor in Trisha Yearwood's music video of her 2008 single, "This Is Me You're Talking To".
44. In 2013, Corbett released his second country album Leaving Nothin' Behind, co-produced by Jon Randall who also wrote 7 of the 10 songs.
45. Corbett was raised Roman Catholic, but is now a born-again Christian, though he doesn't attend church.
46. He has never been married, and has stated that he does not see himself getting married or having children.
47. He has been in a long-term relationship with actress Bo Derek since 2002.
48. Started to play guitar at age of 7.
49. He also plays piano.
50. He is a vegetarian.
