He showed a more serious side in the World War II-era drama In a Shallow Grave (1988), which presented a Cyrano de Bergerac-like story line with Patrick as the Christian de Neuvillette counterpart, but then he went straight back to familiar territory with the college-themed comedies Some Girls (1988) with Jennifer Connelly, Loverboy (1989), and Happy Together (1989).
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A movie favorite for many, Patrick had reached the peak of his early career popularity. The youthful 21-year old Patrick played a nerd role next in the very funny high school comedy Кохання не купиш (1987) with Amanda Peterson. By this time, his trademark cuteness and appeal started taking shape. Life resembled art that same year when Patrick married actress and drama coach Rocky Parker, who played a bit part in the film. However, his movie career got on a faster track and he scored well co-starring with the worldly Beverly D'Angelo in the movie In the Mood (1987), as a young man who makes headlines pursuing older women.
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Inheriting the Robert Romanus cool guy role of con artist Mike Damone, expectations were far too big and the television series died a quick death. Around the same time, he found himself in a television series entitled Fast Times (1986), based on the ultimate school-age film Круті часи в Ріджмонт Хай (1982), which made a star out of Sean Penn. More silliness followed with Фрикадельки 3 (1986) and a ripe turn in the socially aware television-movie Disneyland: A Fighting Choice (1986) in which he played an epileptic teen who sues his parents ( Beau Bridges and Karen Valentine) in order to have risky brain surgery. He made his movie debut in the secondary part of a Catholic student in the 1960s-era school-age comedy Heaven Help Us (1985) starring "Brat Pack" actor Andrew McCarthy. Directed by the renowned comedy favorite Gene Saks, Dempsey started looking at the possibility of film work. More opportunities came his way after winning the protagonist role of Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" that toured in 1984.
In between he, found supplementary gigs dancing and juggling. Two years later, he won a prime role as David, the gay teen, in the Harvey Fierstein play "Torch Song Trilogy", spending several months touring the San Francisco area with the show. Acting was also a natural for him and, at age 15, he earned the role of the rebellious son in a Maine production of "On Golden Pond". Dominic Regional High School but dropped out before graduating.Īlways interested in entertainment, Patrick studied juggling and entered several competitions. Patrick, who was diagnosed as dyslexic (he has to fully memorize his scripts), attended St. His parents were both originally from Pennsylvania, and he has German, English, and Scottish ancestry ("Dempsey" was the surname of his step-grandfather). His father, an insurance agent, and his mother, a school secretary, raised the children in Buckfield (Maine). Amanda (Casson) and William Allen Dempsey. Patrick Galen Dempsey was born on Januin Lewiston, Maine, to M.
From an exuberant, somewhat awkward charmer in college comedy films of the late 1980s and early 1990s, he has morphed spectacularly into a dreamy, wavy-haired television hunk of the new-age millennium and this seductive new image has since spilled off into romantic lead roles back on the large screen as a slightly offbeat, self-effacing Prince Charming type.
Patrick Dempsey has lived two charming but separate lives on film and television.