Patrick Dempsey Success Story

From the persona of an awkward charmer in early 90's comedy films, Patrick had transformed into a more radical, keen observer and patient actor over time. His attire has been attributed as "marvelous" and "sinuous-haired hunk" in the television industry. An attractive attitude along with his acting skills has earned him various romantic lead roles, a la Prince Charming kinds, although slightly off-beat.

Dempsey grabbed his first major film at the age of 21 in "The Mood". He played the lead role of Ellsworth Wisecarver where his relationship with a married old woman, during the World War II, created turmoil. Immediately after this, he got many feature films like Loverboy, Some Girls, Happy Together and Can't Buy Me Love, all in early 90's.

Besides having a lucrative career in entertainment, Dempsey is also quite interested in motorsports, so much that he announced in one of the events that he would love to "walk away" from his acting career to dedicate his full attention to motorsports if he could. He has an exclusive collection of vintage and sports cars.

Dempsey has participated in various prestigious pro-am events in order to fulfil his motorsport passion. In most of them, he came out with flying colors and standings. He had his participation felt in races like 24 Hours of Le Mans, Rolex 24 at Daytona,Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 off-road race etc. under his belt. In the year 2009, he raced a Team Seattle Advanced Engineering Ferrari F430 GT at 24 Hours of Le Mans's GT2 class, where he came ninth.

Television had set the platform for his acting career which soared soon after the end of his 90's comedy era. With his broad acting knack from romantic loverboy to a comedian, he nailed some all-time hits television prime-time like The Practice (1997), Once and Again (1999), Sweet Home Alabama (2002) and his neurosurgeon role as Dr. Derek Shepherd (aka "Dr. McDreamy") really blew away the audience. With a sharp sense of comic role and his offbeat charisma, he was nominated twice for Golden Globe awards and once for Emmy Awards. His performance and the popularity made way for some of the high profile movies at his disposal. He appeared in Valentine's Day,Sweet Home Alabama, Enchanted,Made of Honor, and the very recent Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Besides his glamourous routine of entertainment and sports racing, he started the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope and Healing at his native town in support of ovarian cancer cure, soon after his mother was diagnosed with one. His personal life had its share of ups and downs, with him being married twice. He has 3 children from his second marriage. Also he has franchised a men's fragrance by Avon known as " Unscripted".

Unscripted with Patrick Dempsey