But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.
I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.
I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.
I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.
I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.
Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky.
Eric named his son Finnigan after the puppet in "Mr. Dressup" (1967). He refers to his acting repertoire as his "tickle trunk" also from that show.
He attended Banff School of Fine Arts
Eric set up his own production company called "Big Cattle Productions" to develop ideas for TV. The naming of the company came out of wordplay as by shortening the word "production", you get "Big Cattle Prod".
He is involved in many Los Angeles- and Canadian-based charitable organizations including Project Angel Food and others.
McCormack has been married to Janet Leigh Holden since 1997; they have a son, Finnigan Holden McCormack, born on July 1, 2002 in Los Angeles.
Eric attended Sir John A. Macdonald High School in Scarborough, Canada.
As of June 2006, McCormack is starring in the off-Broadway play Some Girls with Fran Drescher and is also executive producer of the new Lifetime comedy entitled Lovespring International
His Zodiac Sign is Aries.
He was nominated for the 2004 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy.
Eric made his writing/directing debut with the film short Pirates (2003).
He has written a book named The Dutch Wife.
Eric has a cameo appearance in the Barenaked Ladies video for the song "Pinch Me", in which he plays a customer at a Burger Palace.
Eric now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children and no longer lives in Vancouver!
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