Now that his hit show is leaving the air, Eric McCormack should have more time to spend in his beloved Vancouver.
After eight seasons, five Golden Globe nominations, and an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Eric McCormack is saying farewell to Will Truman, the funny, foppish foil to Debra Messing in the hit series Will & Grace. The classically trained actor now has time to reflect, looking beyond the fictional New York apartment where he roamed on W&G and back to where it all began - not in his hometown of Toronto, but across Canada, in Vancouver.

"I lived in Toronto until I was 30, but in 1992, I flew west to Vancouver to visit a friend and to see what the work situation was like - and I never left," he recalls. "I was sleeping on a buddy's couch. And within a few months, I was a regular on a series and I had done three movies of the week. Vancouver was very fertile ground at the time, particularly for American movies of the week and a lot of Stephen J. Cannell series. It was sort of a banner year for me, and from there I went to L.A. But Vancouver, from then on, sort of became my home away from home."

In Vancouver, McCormack appeared onstage and landed his first television films and series - including his role as Colonel Clay Mosby on Lonesome Dove: The Series - all of which set the stage for his roaring run on Will & Grace. Now, he, his wife, Janet, and their three-and-a-half-year-old son, Finnigan, are based in L.A., where ­McCormack and his wife are developing various scripts and projects. This April, McCormack will star in a feature film called The Sisters, a modern interpretation of Anton Chekhov's renowned play The Three Sisters. This summer, McCormack will star in the off-Broadway play Some Girls, written by Neil Labute. The play begins previews on May 17 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.