William H Macy Biography

William H Macy is an American actor and comedian. His film career has grown due to his appearances in small, independent films, though he has also appeared in summer action films.  Macy has related himself as “sort of a Middle American, WASPy, Lutheran kind of guy… Everyman”.

He has won two Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has also won an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Fargo. He has played Frank Gallagher since 2011 , a main character in the Showtime adaptation of the British television series Shameless.

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William was born on March 13, 1950 in Miami, Florida. He is 68 years old as of 2018.

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William stands at a height of 1.75 m.

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William was born in Miami, Florida, and grew up in Georgia and Maryland. He is the son to  William Hall Macy, Sr. (1922-2007) who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and an Air Medal for flying a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber in World War II.  He later ran a construction company in Atlanta, Georgia. William’s father  worked for Dun & Bradstreet before taking over a Cumberland, Maryland-based insurance agency when William was nine years old. His mother is Lois (née Overstreet; 1920-2001) who was a war widow who met Macy’s father after her first husband died in 1943; Macy has described her as a “Southern belle”.

 William H Macy |Education

William in 1968 he graduated from Allegany High School in Cumberland, Maryland, and went on to Bethany College in West Virginia where he studied veterinary medicine.  He was ‘wretched student’ by his own admission. He transferred to Goddard College in rural Vermont, where he studied under playwright David Mamet.

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After William graduated from Goddard in 1972, he originated roles in a number of plays by collaborator David Mamet, such as American Buffalo and The Water Engine. In his twenties while in Chicago he did a TV commercial. William was required to join AFTRA in order to do the commercial, and received his SAG card within a year, which for an elated William represented an important moment in his career.

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William and actress Felicity Huffman dated on-and-off for 15 years. They married on September 6, 1997. The couple  has two daughters, Sophia Grace  who was born on December 1, 2000 and Georgia Grace who was born on March 14, 2002.

In 2004 William and his wife appeared at a rally for John Kerry. He plays the ukulele and is an avid woodturner. He has appeared on the cover of Fine Woodworking and was featured in an article in the April 2015 issue of American Woodturner (American Association of Woodturners). William is also a national ambassador for the United Cerebral Palsy Association.

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William joined the Showtime pilot Shameless as the protagonist, Frank Gallagher in summer 2010. The project eventually went to series, and its first season premiered on January 9, 2011. William has received high critical acclaim for his performance, ultimately getting an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2014.

William is making $350,000 per episode of Shameless.

William H Macy Net Worth

William has an estimated net worth of $25 million.

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William is still alive.

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William’s work on ER and Sports Night has also been recognized with Emmy nominations.

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William H Macy Wild Hogs

William starred in Wild Hogs in 2007.  This is a film about middle-aged men reliving their youthful days by taking to the open road on their Harley-Davidson motorcycles from Cincinnati to the Pacific Coast. In spite of it being critically panned, with a 14% “rotten” rating from Rotten Tomatoes, it was a financial success, grossing over $168 million.

Since shooting the film Wild Hogs, Macy has picked up a strong interest in riding motorcycles.

William H Macy Boogie Nights

Boogie Nights is a drama film written, produced and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is set in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. It focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through to his fall during the excesses of the 1980s. It  is an expansion of Anderson’s mockumentary short film The Dirk Diggler Story (1988).  stars William H. Macy along side Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Heather Graham.

William H Macy Fargo

Fargo is a 1996 black comedy crime film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating roadside homicides that ensue after a desperate car salesman (William H. Macy) hires two criminals (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law (Harve Presnell).

William H Macy Jurassic Park

William starred in Jurassic Park III.   A science fiction adventure film and the third installment in the Jurassic Park film series. Other stars includes Sam Neill, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan, and Michael Jeter. The film is the first  series Steven Spielberg did not direct; neither was it based on a book by Michael Crichton.  Although numerous scenes in the film were taken from Crichton’s novels Jurassic Park and The Lost World. Events depicted in the film take place on Isla Sorna, an island off Central America’s Pacific coast, where a divorced couple have tricked Dr. Alan Grant into helping them find their son.