Harry Connick Jr.
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Biography
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, actor, composer and pianist. Connick has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. He is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million certified albums. He has seven top-20 U.S. albums, and ten number-one U.S. jazz albums, earning more number-one albums than any other artist in the US jazz chart history.
Connick's best selling album in the United States is his 1993 Christmas album When My Heart Finds Christmas, which also is one of the best selling Christmas albums in the United States. His highest charting album, is his 2004 release Only You which reached #5 in the U.S. and #6 in Britain. He has won three Grammy awards and one Emmy Award. He played Grace's husband Dr. Leo Markus on the TV sitcom Will & Grace from 2002 to 2006.
Connick began his acting career as a tail gunner in the World War II film Memphis Belle in 1990. He played a serial killer in Copycat in 1995, before being cast as jet fighter pilot in the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day. Connick's first role as a leading man was in 1998's Hope Floats with Sandra Bullock. His first thriller film since Copycat came in 2007, when he played the violent ex-husband in Bug, before two romantic comedies, 2007's P.S. I Love You, and the leading man in New in Town with Renée Zellweger in 2009.
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Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Tony Awards
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Cheers
Will & Grace
Today
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Will & Grace
MADtv
Finding Your Roots
Kevin Can Wait
Independence Day
American Idol
Australian Idol
Memphis Belle
Excess Baggage
Fear of Rain
P.S. I Love You
Little Man Tate
Hope Floats
Harry
Find Me Falling
The Happy Elf
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