Andrew McCarthy

Name	Andrew McCarthy
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Caption	McCarthy in 2010
Birth Name	Andrew Thomas McCarthy
Birth Date	1962-11-29
Birth Place	Westfield, New Jersey, U.S.
Education	New York University (withdrawn)
Years Active	1983–present
Children	3, including Sam McCarthy
Website	andrewmccarthy.com

Early life and education

McCarthy was born in Westfield, New Jersey, the third of four boys. His mother worked for a newspaper, and his father was involved in investments and stocks. McCarthy moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, as a teenager and attended Bernards High School and the Pingry School, a preparatory academy. At Pingry, he played the Artful Dodger in Oliver!, his first acting role. After graduating from high school, he enrolled at NYU for acting, but was expelled after two years.

Career

McCarthy's first major role was in the 1983 comedy Class opposite Jacqueline Bisset. He was a member of the 1980s Hollywood group of young actors dubbed by the media as the "Brat Pack". The group starred in a few films, among them St. Elmo's Fire and Pretty in Pink. McCarthy appeared in the 1987 films Mannequin and Less than Zero, a cinematic adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel. In 1985, McCarthy starred with Donald Sutherland and Kevin Dillon in Heaven Help Us (also known as Catholic Boys) as Michael Dunn. McCarthy made his Broadway debut in The Boys of Winter. He quickly returned to Hollywood in 1988 to star in several films, such as Fresh Horses and Kansas. He had another hit with the 1989 comedy film Weekend at Bernie's.

He returned to Broadway to star in Side Man, and the production won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Play. In 2003, McCarthy was set to guest star in two episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Due to bad relations with actor Vincent D'Onofrio, series creator Dick Wolf decided against it. Wolf later stated, "Mr. McCarthy engaged in fractious behavior from the moment he walked on the set." McCarthy fired back in a statement of his own saying, "I was fired because I refused to allow a fellow actor to threaten me with physical violence, bully me and try to direct me." Despite this incident, he later guest starred in a 2007 episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (with Chris Noth, not D'Onofrio). In 2004, he played Dr. Hook in Kingdom Hospital. He appeared in five episodes of the 2005 NBC television series E-Ring. In 2008, he starred in the NBC television series Lipstick Jungle as billionaire Joe Bennett and had a minor role in The Spiderwick Chronicles.

McCarthy directed several episodes of the hit CW television series Gossip Girl, including "Touch of Eva" in the fourth season.

In 2010 and 2011, he appeared in the hit USA show White Collar. He returned to the series in the next season to direct the episode "Neighborhood Watch". In 2015, he directed three episodes in Season 2 of the NBC hit television show The Blacklist starring James Spader and Megan Boone. In 2016, he starred in the short-lived ABC drama The Family.

From 2020 to 2021, he had a recurring role in NBC's TV series Good Girls. In 2022, McCarthy joined the cast of The Resident as Ian Sullivan, a renowned pediatric surgeon and Cade's estranged father.

Writing

McCarthy began travel writing and served as an Editor at Large at National Geographic Traveler magazine. In 2010, McCarthy was escorted out of an underground church in Lalibela, Ethiopia, for entering the site without documentation. He had been in the church on assignment for the travel magazine Afar. McCarthy's book The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down was published in 2012.

In February 2015, National Geographic published McCarthy's account, titled "A Song for Ireland", of his return to the house in the townland of Lacka West in the parish of Duagh in County Kerry in Ireland from which his great-grandfather John McCarthy had emigrated in the late 1800s.

McCarthy has received several awards from SATW (Society of American Travel Writers), including Travel Journalist of the Year in 2010.

In 2017, Algonquin Books published McCarthy's YA novel, Just Fly Away. The novel became a New York Times bestseller.

McCarthy's memoir about his life and career in the 1980s, titled Brat: An '80s Story, was released in May 2021 by Grand Central Publishing.

In 2023, Grand Central Publishing released Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain, McCarthy's memoir about walking the Camino de Santiago with his son Sam in the summer of 2021.

Personal life

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

Fantafestival

• 1987: Won, "Best Actor" – Mannequin

• 2004: Won, Grand Prize for "Best Short Film" – News for the Church – qualifying it as an Official Entry with the Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short Film

• 2005: Won, "Best Short Film" – News for the Church

References

• UPI Almanac for Friday, Nov. 29, 2019, United Press International, November 29, 2019, January 11, 2020, December 24, 2019, live, …actor Andrew McCarthy in 1962 (age 57)
• Thomas, Bob, McCarthy a hot ticket in acting market, Park City Daily News, March 1, 1987
• Andrew McCarthy Biography, 19 December 2020, TV.com, April 1, 2019, dead
• From Brat Pack to Backpack, Newman, Melinda, 15 August 2011, New Jersey Monthly, 28 July 2019
• 28 May 2003, McCarthy Fired From Law + Order, 19 December 2020, contactmusic.com
• November 29, 2007, Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith, Once Fired From "Law & Order," Andrew McCarthy Returns, December 1, 2007
• Andreeva, Nellie, 'The Resident': Andrew McCarthy Joins Cast Of Fox Medical Drama, Deadline Hollywood, April 18, 2022, October 11, 2022
• Cordero, Rosy, 'The Resident': Andrew McCarthy Upped To Series Regular For Season 6, Deadline Hollywood, July 11, 2022, October 11, 2022
• Andrew McCarthy talks Pretty In Pink, August 7, 2013, October 4, 2013, dead
• Nudd, Tim, 8 February 2010, Lipstick Jungle, Star Andrew McCarthy Detained in Ethiopia, People, EN
• Strayed, Cheryl, 21 September 2012, Where Is He Now?, en-US, The New York Times, 19 December 2020, 0362-4331
• McCarthy, Andrew, 2 February 2015, A Song for Ireland -- National Geographic Traveler, dead, September 9, 2017, 19 December 2020, National Geographic, en
• February 6, 2015, Hollywood star discovers he's from Kerry and not Cork after supporting Cork all his life!', evoke.ie, dead, August 5, 2016, 6 March 2016
• Past Winners SATW Foundation Lowell Thomas Competition, 19 December 2020, Society of American Travel Writers, September 22, 2021, dead
• Hong, Catherine, 2017-07-12, Summer Y.A. Escapes from Sarah Dessen, Andrew McCarthy and More, en-US, The New York Times, 2020-12-19, 0362-4331
• Just Fly Away, 2020-12-19, Workman Publishing, en-US
• Gillette, Sam, 10 November 2020, Pretty in Pink, Star Turned Director Andrew McCarthy Revisits the '80s with Memoir , Brat, 19 December 2020, People, EN
• Walking with Sam, 2022-09-12, en-US, McCarthy, Andrew, Grand Central
• USA Today, Andrew McCarthy discusses his alcoholism, March 26, 2004, April 25, 2010
• Freydkin, Donna, 'Pretty' heartthrob Andrew McCarthy loves his 'Lipstick', USA Today, August 28, 2011, March 20, 2008
• Reinstein, Mara, 2021-05-07, Andrew McCarthy on Life in the 'Brat Pack', Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Reconnecting With Molly Ringwald and Living in the Now, 2021-08-01, Parade: Entertainment, Recipes, Health, Life, Holidays, en
• Former 'Brat Pack' stars reunite in documentary directed by Andrew McCarthy, ABC News, June 13, 2024, Doc Louallen, June 13, 2024

External links

• Official website