John Slattery was born in 1963 and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and is a proud native of Massachusetts. He is tall, handsome, and very talented. John is married to Talia Balsam, George Clooney's ex-wife.
John landed his first TV gig on the 1988 series Dirty Dozen and has worked steadily since then. His television career has included the short-lived series Under Cover, Homefront, Maggie, and Feds; and the mini-series A Woman of Independent Means with Sally Field and From the Earth to the Moon, in which he played Walter Mondale. With recurring roles on Will & Grace as Will's big brother, Sam; Judging Amy as Amy's estranged husband; and Sex and the City as a very kinky politician; John has become one of the most in-demand character actors. In 2001, he had a role on NBC's comedy-drama Ed where he played the confident, cool, aloof high school principal Dennis Martino. This role earned him much notoriety, and made him the subject of debate among Ed fans.
John has also had a long, successful, and diverse career in the theater. He made his theater debut in the 1989 play the Lisbon Traviata, which also starred Nathan Lane. He has had several successful collaborations with the playwright Richard Greenberg and appeared in the author's The Extra Man, Night and Her Stars, and Three Days of Rain, for which he earned critical praise for his dual roles of father and son. In 1993, John made his Broadway debut starring opposite Nathan Lane in Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor. Returning to theater in 2000, John starred in a revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal.
Making his feature film debut in 1996, John had a guest starring role in the movie City Hall. He has since appeared in the movies Eraser, Where's Marlowe?, Traffic, and Bad Company. He appeared in the movie Mona Lisa Smile with Julia Roberts and was cast in Havana Nights.
John landed his first TV gig on the 1988 series Dirty Dozen and has worked steadily since then. His television career has included the short-lived series Under Cover, Homefront, Maggie, and Feds; and the mini-series A Woman of Independent Means with Sally Field and From the Earth to the Moon, in which he played Walter Mondale. With recurring roles on Will & Grace as Will's big brother, Sam; Judging Amy as Amy's estranged husband; and Sex and the City as a very kinky politician; John has become one of the most in-demand character actors. In 2001, he had a role on NBC's comedy-drama Ed where he played the confident, cool, aloof high school principal Dennis Martino. This role earned him much notoriety, and made him the subject of debate among Ed fans.
John has also had a long, successful, and diverse career in the theater. He made his theater debut in the 1989 play the Lisbon Traviata, which also starred Nathan Lane. He has had several successful collaborations with the playwright Richard Greenberg and appeared in the author's The Extra Man, Night and Her Stars, and Three Days of Rain, for which he earned critical praise for his dual roles of father and son. In 1993, John made his Broadway debut starring opposite Nathan Lane in Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor. Returning to theater in 2000, John starred in a revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal.
Making his feature film debut in 1996, John had a guest starring role in the movie City Hall. He has since appeared in the movies Eraser, Where's Marlowe?, Traffic, and Bad Company. He appeared in the movie Mona Lisa Smile with Julia Roberts and was cast in Havana Nights.
John cheers for Boston sports teams: Celtics, Bruins, Red Sox, and the New England Patriots.
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John read for the audiobook Duma Key by Stephen King.
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John was nominated in 2008 for a SAG Award along with his Mad Men castmates for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
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His father is John M. Slattery. He has four older sisters and one younger brother.
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His favorite TV show was always Cheers. He always wishes he could have made a guest appearance on the show.
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He originally auditioned for the role of Mr. Big on Sex and the City. The casting team liked him but didn't see him as Big so they gave him a different role.
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He did a Broadway play called Betrayal with Juliette Binoche and Liev Schreiber.
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John was in the Broadway production is The Rabbit Hole which ended on April 2006.
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Slattery married actress Talia Balsam on December 30, 1998 on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. They have one child.
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In 2000, John starred opposite Sela Ward as a steelworker romancing a movie actress in To Catch a Falling Star (CBS).
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He was raised outside of Boston, Massachusetts in Newton and Wellesley.
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John graduated with a BFA Degree in theater and drama from the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.
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He offered an hilarious turn as a politician with kinky sex habits dating Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie in the HBO sitcom Sex and the City in 2000.
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In 1993, Slattery made his Broadway debut as a TV show writer patterned on Larry Gelbart in Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical Laughter on the 23rd Floor, which starred Nathan Lane as a Sid Caesar-like star.
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In between his 1991 series stints, Slattery began his long and fruitful association with playwright Richard Greenberg, co-starring in the author's play The Extra Man. He subsequently played Charles Van Doren in Greenberg's examination of the 1950's quiz show scandals Night and Her Stars in 1995 and won critical praise in the dual roles of a father and son in Three Days of Rain in 1997.
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John has enjoyed a variety of roles on stage, in films and on television. Slattery offered strong support to Nathan Lane in Terrence McNally's Off-Broadway drama The Lisbon Traviata in 1989.
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John worked on K-street along with his wife in 2003.
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John: (on playing Roger Sterling in the shortened season one of "Mad Men") I finally find a [role] I want to keep playing and it ends so quickly.
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John: (on playing characters with political power) They see you do one thing and think, 'That guy can play a politician!'. It has nothing to do with me. I am not a leader of men.
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John: (on playing Dennis Martino on "Ed") Yeah, I play the d--- head who spoils everything, then leaves. But it's perfect for somebody with a short attention span. Signing on to an open-ended TV show scares me.
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