• By age 13, was working in bars as a busboy.

• Changed first name to Dylan after Ensler suffered a miscarriage and was unable to give her baby that name.

• Went to live with grandmother in Waterbury, Connecticut after mother's death; divided time between NYC and Connecticut.

• Majored in drama at Fordham University and studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC under Sanford Meisner.

• Dylan's mother died when he was 5. Fourteen years later, his dad, Richard, owner of Manhattan's West 4th St Saloon, married Eve Ensler.

• Chosen by People Magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. [1998]

• Dated Julia Roberts during and after filming Steel Magnolias (1989)

• Favorite Television Show- "I Dream of Jeannie" (1965).

• In 2000, Dylan and now ex-wife, Shiva Rose, bought a Los Angeles' home from Antonio Banderas & Melanie Griffith for $4 million.

• Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#67). [1995]

• Changed his name from Mark to Dylan in tribute to his ex-stepmother, Eve Ensler, who suffered a miscarriage and who would have given her own child that name. Dylan and Eve have an extremely close and caring relationship.

• His former stepmother, Eve Ensler, isn't only an actress. She is also a playwright and women's rights activist, as well. She wrote the famed play The Vagina Monologues.

• He took the name Dylan out of respect to his stepmother who was pregnant with a boy she named Dylan, but had a miscarriage.

• Hosted VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Rock and Roll.

•He jokes about the fact that he is often confused with actor/musician Dermot Mulroney.

• Two daughters with his now ex-wife, Shiva Rose: Colette, born in 1996, and Charlotte Rose, born September 8, 2005.

• Studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC under Sandford Meisner.

• Attended the 2005 Dubai International Film Festival in the United Arab Emirates. Other attendees included Albert Brooks, Morgan Freeman and Jon Tenney.

• Ex-son-in-law of Parviz Gharib-Afshar.

• His ex-wife Shiva Rose is Iranian.

• Is half Italian.

• His stepmother, Eve Ensler, isn't only an actress. She is also a playwright and women's rights activist as well. She wrote the famed play The Vagina Monologues.

• After the final battle in HAMBURGER HILL (1987), McDermott, as Sgt. Frantz, vehemently tells an Army photographer who shows up to Unass my AO! In the condensed language of GI slang, it is an order to move his ass out of the sergeant's Area of Operations, and in this context it expresses the infantry GI's contempt for soldiers who don't fight.

• Lara Flynn Boyle and Dylan McDermott's removal from TV show THE PRACTICE came as a complete shock to the cast and crew because they were only expecting pay cuts – They are two of five regulars on the legal drama who were axed from the show last week by producer David E. Kelley after a season of declining ratings. (May 27, 2003)

• Dylan McDermott, Lara Flynn Boyle and four other cast members of THE PRACTICE are exiting David E. Kelley's ABC legal drama next season after their options were not picked up by David E. Kelley Prods. and 20th Century Fox TV -- The slimming of PRACTICE's actor payroll comes as the series faces at least a 50 percent reduction in the license fee paid by ABC. (May 21, 2003)

• Families of Pennsylvania crime victims say Music Behind Bars, the program he hosts, is an affront to the memory of those whose lives were forever altered, and in some cases ended, by the criminal musicians. (October 18, 2002)