Sean Hayes
Sean Hayes
Sean Patrick Hayes is an American actor, comedian, and producer. He is best known for his role as Jack McFarland on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, for which he won an Emmy Award, four SAG Awards, and one American Comedy Award, and earned six Golden Globe nominations. He also runs a television production company called Hazy Mills Productions, which produces shows such as Grimm, Hot in Cleveland, The Soul Man, and Hollywood Game Night...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth26 June 1970
CityGlen Ellyn, IL
CountryUnited States of America
We are really pleased with our results and 69% of students received A to C grade passes.
The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.
Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play.
The thing about producing is that the pressure is off of being in front of the camera, and being critiqued and judged in that way, but there are other pressures producing.
At the beginning of 'Will and Grace', I played Jack as the funny next-door-neighbor type, as we've seen in the past. And I thought that was my role.
But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.
I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.
So get accomplished what you want to get accomplished in your life. And in the intervals, do what you can to help other people.
No one could have ever dreamed about how well the show would do.
I'm a hamster person. No - that's so bizarre, I don't know what that means. Please don't say that. Now everybody is going to go, "Do you like hamsters? Why did you say hamsters? Do you have a collection of hamsters?" I'll never live that down. Please don't use that.
I'm a huge sci-fi/fantasy/horror guy. I love anything in the sci-fi or fantasy genre.
Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero.
No, my entire life is planned. It's called time management.
I tripped making my entrance, knocked over the light and caught the set on fire,