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Eric Close and Trinity Likins in Christmas in the Air (2017)

Eric Close and Renée O'Connor in Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (1994)

Kevin Sorbo, Eric Close, and Renée O'Connor in Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (1994)

Eric Close, Renée O'Connor, and Robert Trebor in Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (1994)

Catherine Bell and Eric Close in Christmas in the Air (2017)

Emily Bergl and Eric Close in Taken (2002)

Eric Close and Dakota Fanning in Taken (2002)

Eric Close and Catherine Dent in Taken (2002)

Tiffani Thiessen and Eric Close in Dinner at Tiffani's (2014)

Eric Close, Gabriel Macht, and Patrick J. Adams in Suits (2011)

Connie Britton and Eric Close in Nashville (2012)

Anthony LaPaglia and Eric Close in Without a Trace (2002)

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Enrique Murciano, and Eric Close in Without a Trace (2002)

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Anthony LaPaglia, Enrique Murciano, Eric Close, and Poppy Montgomery in Without a Trace (2002)

Eric Close and Gabriel Macht in Suits (2011)

Eric Close and Margaret Colin in Now and Again (1999)

Eric Close and Dennis Haysbert in Now and Again (1999)

Eric Close and Hayden Panettiere in Nashville (2012)

Eric Close, Charles Esten, Judith Hoag, Hayden Panettiere, Michael Chernus, Lennon Stella, and Maisy Stella in Nashville (2012)

Eric Close and Kimberly Williams-Paisley in Nashville (2012)

Eric Close and Lennon Stella in Nashville (2012)

Ming-Na Wen and Eric Close in Nashville (2012)

Eric was born in Staten Island, New York, May 24. His father is an orthopedic surgeon and his mother is an artist. Eric is the eldest of three brothers. He graduated with a B.A. in communications from the University of Southern California in 1989. He married Keri Moyers in 1995 and they have two daughters, Katie and Ella.

Eric Close is an actor, director, and writer. He has starred opposite Tommy Flanagan in the Amazon film Legal Action (2018) as an attorney who must defend his brother-in-law on a murder charge. He can also be seen as Ltc. Jacobsen in the war drama Indivisible (2018), based on the true story about a family's real-life events during the 2007 Iraq War.

Close starred opposite Connie Britton in the hit series Nashville (2012), created by Oscar-winning writer Callie Khouri for the ABC network. Before this, Close starred for almost a decade in the critically acclaimed CBS series Without a Trace (2002), nominated for a Golden Globe for best ensemble cast. Close then teamed up again with the network as the lead of their dramedy series Chaos (2011), opposite Tim Blake Nelson. Close also starred as crafty lawyer Travis Tanner in the critically acclaimed USA series Suits (2011). On the feature side, Close joined Bradley Cooper in Clint Eastwood's American Sniper (2014) for Warner Bros., playing DIA Agent Snead.

Past credits also include the series The Magnificent Seven (1998), Now and Again (1999), Dark Skies (1996), and McKenna (1994), while taking on a number of long-form features such as American Me (1992), Seven Deadly Sins (2010), NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323 (2004), Christmas Crime Story (2016), Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (1994), Follow the Stars Home (2001), The Stranger Beside Me (1995), Long Island Fever (1995), Without Consent (1994), and Unanswered Prayers (2010), which was produced by Garth Brooks. Not to mention the Golden Globe-nominated miniseries Taken (2002), which was executive produced by Steven Spielberg.

Behind the camera, Close is also an accomplished director. In addition to directing episodes of Nashville (2012) and Without a Trace (2002), Eric finished directing and acting in his fourth feature for the Hallmark channel, which included the network's highest-rated Christmas film, Christmas at Graceland (2018), and Hallmark Hall of Fame's film A Christmas Love Story (2019), starring Kristin Chenoweth, Scott Wolf, and Close himself.

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