Saturday, 24 March 2012
Eddie Cahill - Biography
Early Life
Cahill was
born in New York City, New York. He is the middle child; he has one older and
one younger sister. He is of Irish descent from his father, a stockbroker, and
of Italian descent from his mother, an elementary school teacher.
Cahill
graduated from Byram Hills High School in Armonk, New York in 1996. He attended
Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New Yorkand the Atlantic Theater Acting
School, part of the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
Career
In 2000,
Cahill performed in Nicky Silver's Off-Broadway
production of The
Altruists. He
was noticed, and shortly after made several television guest-star appearances
including Sex and the City, Felicity, and Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit. Cahill was also a recurring guest-star in the comedy Friends as Rachel's
young assistant and boyfriend, Tag Jones. In 2002 he starred in a short-lived WB drama, Glory Days.
In the 2004
hockey movie Miracle, Cahill had the chance to play his
boyhood hero, goalie Jim Craig. He
had never played the goaltender position prior to the movie, so most of the
game-action sequences of Craig were filmed with former NHL goalie Bill
Ranford doubling for Cahill, although Cahill did shoot several key
sequences from within goal.
When CBS decided in 2004 to
create a third CSI series, CSI: NY, to add to its franchise,
Cahill was hired to play the cocky, snarky homicide Detective
Don Flack who backs up the team of CSIs and who gets some of the best lines.
In June 2011,
Cahill went back to the Atlantic Theater Company and performed at
the conclusion of their 25th Anniversary season.He
was in Tom
Donaghy's one-act play, I Need a Quote, about "a hilarious
telephone conversation between a single mother and a home insurance salesman."
Personnal Life
Cahill is an avid New York Rangers hockey fan. He even wrote an NHL Celeb Blog for three seasons.
Source : Wikipedia
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