Dylan McDermott is an American actor, director, and screenwriter, best known for his role of the law firm head Bobby Donnell in The Practice TV series from 1997 to 2004, for which he received a Golden Globe Award for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama”. He also had the role of FBI Agent Max Canary in The Grid (2004) TV series and Duncan Collinsworth in the series Big Shots from 2007 to 2008. One of the Dylan’s most notable roles were in the first 2 seasons of the TV series American Horror Story, titled American Horror Story: Murder House (2011) where he played the role of Dr. Ben Harmon, and American Horror Story: Asylum (2012-2013) where he starred as a character named Johnny Morgan. Dylan came back for 1 more episode of the show in 2018, titled Return to Murder House, as Ben Harmon.
Apart from starring in other TV series such as Dark Blue (2009-2010), Hostages (2013-2014), Stalker (2014-2015), LA to Vegas (2018), and The Politician (2019), he has had many recognized roles as a film actor. In 1990, he starred in the sci-fi Hardware, then had a lead role in Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1991) with Sharon Stone, In the Line of Fire (1993) with Clint Eastwood and Rene Russo, and Three to Tango (1999) alongside Matthew Perry. Dylan also starred in Texas Rangers (2001) with Ashton Kutcher, Rachael Leigh Cook, and James Van Der Beek, and Wonderland (2003) with Kate Bosworth and Lisa Kudrow. In 2013, Dylan McDermott had a lead role of Forbes in Olympus Has Fallen alongside Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman, and another prominent role of Don in The Clovehitch Killer (2018).