Eric Dane

Birthday: 9 November 1972, San Francisco, California, USA

Birth Name: Eric William Dane

Height: 185 cm

Eric Dane is an American actor known as "Dr. Mark Sloan" on Grey's Anatomy (2005) and as a co-star in Marley & Me (2008) and Valentine's Day (2010).He was born on November 9, 1972, in San Francisco, California, the older of two brothers. His father is an architect and interior designer based in San Francisco. His mother, Leah (Cohn), was a homemaker. His ancestry includes English, German, Finnish, Russian Jewish, and Austrian Jewish, and Eric had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.Young Eric was a good athlete in high school. There, he started amateur stage work by playing "Joe Keller" in Arthur Miller's "All My Sons", and realized that this was all he wanted to do.He moved to Los Angeles and made his television debut in 1993 on The Wonder Years (1988). In his early career, he also played bit parts on the TV series Married with Children (1987) (1995), Silk Stalkings (1991) (1996) and Roseanne (1988) (1996). Dane played medical doctors more than once, first appearing as a "Dr. Cooper" in Gideon's Crossing (2000). From 2003-2004, he has been a recurrent guest star as "Jason Dean" in the hit show Charmed (1998). In 2006, he appeared as handsome "Dr. Mark Sloan", the plastic surgeon on the show Grey's Anatomy (2005). Dane landed his first leading role on the big screen in the German-made feature, Open Water 2: Adrift (2006).On October 29, 2004, in Las Vegas, Eric Dane married actress Rebecca Gayheart, who was previously engaged to producer/director Brett Ratner, the director of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). In it, Dane plays the character of "Jamie Madrox", the Multiple Man. Dane and Gayheart became the parents of a girl on March 3, 2010 in Los Angeles. Show less «

On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospital three times.

With a pilot, there's a lot of information that gets packed into 46 minutes or whatever it is. Usual...Show more »

With a pilot, there's a lot of information that gets packed into 46 minutes or whatever it is. Usually what happens is that, throughout the season, you get to spend a little more quality time with the characters and get to know them a bit better, whether it's based on circumstance or relationships they've created with other characters. Show less «

I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.

Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don't know if that ins...Show more »

Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don't know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go. Show less «

Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far...Show more »

Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch. Show less «

I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All ...Show more »

I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen. Show less «

My skin is very sensitive.

I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and someb...Show more »

I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I've lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time? Show less «

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.

I couldn't comprehend a 35-year-old woman gravitating toward a 70-year-old man.

I make really good chicken soup, sort of from scratch. I don't make my own stock. I just use a base ...Show more »

I make really good chicken soup, sort of from scratch. I don't make my own stock. I just use a base like a chicken stock, but everything else, all the ingredients, I do on my own. Show less «

I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman...Show more »

I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic. Show less «

Going to the gym and looking for a specific result is a short-lived existence, as opposed to going t...Show more »

Going to the gym and looking for a specific result is a short-lived existence, as opposed to going to the gym and adopting it as a lifestyle. Develop a routine, because it's much harder to break it if you have one. If you have no routine, you have nothing to break, so discipline goes out the window. Show less «

Never ask a woman when she's due unless you know for a fact she's expecting.

Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a...Show more »

Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things. Show less «

I'm out of bed before the alarm goes off.

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