Andrew McCarthy

McCarthy was born in Westfield, New Jersey, the third of four boys. His mother worked for a newspaper, and his father was involved in investments and stocks. McCarthy moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, as a teenager and attended Bernards High School and the Pingry School, a preparatory academy. At Pingry, he played the Artful Dodger in Oliver!, his first acting role. After graduating from high school, he enrolled at NYU for acting, but was expelled after two years. ==Career==

McCarthy's first major role was in the 1983 comedy Class opposite Jacqueline Bisset. He quickly returned to Hollywood in 1988 to star in several films, such as Fresh Horses and Kansas. He had another hit with the 1989 comedy film ''Weekend at Bernie's''. He returned to Broadway to star in Side Man, and the production won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Play. In 2003, McCarthy was set to guest star in two episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Due to bad relations with actor Vincent D'Onofrio, series creator Dick Wolf decided against it. Wolf later stated, "Mr. McCarthy engaged in fractious behavior from the moment he walked on the set." McCarthy fired back in a statement of his own saying, "I was fired because I refused to allow a fellow actor to threaten me with physical violence, bully me and try to direct me." Despite this incident, he later guest starred in a 2007 episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (with Chris Noth, not D'Onofrio). In 2004, he played Dr. Hook in Kingdom Hospital. He appeared in five episodes of the 2005 NBC television series E-Ring. In 2008, he starred in the NBC television series Lipstick Jungle as billionaire Joe Bennett and had a minor role in The Spiderwick Chronicles. McCarthy directed several episodes of the hit CW television series Gossip Girl, including "Touch of Eva" in the fourth season. In 2010 and 2011, he appeared in the hit USA show White Collar. He returned to the series in the next season to direct the episode "Neighborhood Watch". In 2015, he directed three episodes in Season 2 of the NBC hit television show The Blacklist starring James Spader and Megan Boone. In 2016, he starred in the short-lived ABC drama The Family. From 2020 to 2021, he had a recurring role in NBC's TV series Good Girls. In 2022, McCarthy joined the cast of The Resident as Ian Sullivan, a renowned pediatric surgeon and Cade's estranged father. ==Writing==

McCarthy began travel writing and served as an Editor at Large at National Geographic Traveler magazine. In 2010, McCarthy was escorted out of an underground church in Lalibela, Ethiopia, for entering the site without documentation. He had been in the church on assignment for the travel magazine Afar. McCarthy's book ''The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down'' was published in 2012. In February 2015, National Geographic published McCarthy's account, titled "A Song for Ireland", of his return to the house in the townland of Lacka West in the parish of Duagh in County Kerry in Ireland from which his great-grandfather John McCarthy had emigrated in the late 1800s. McCarthy has received several awards from SATW (Society of American Travel Writers), including Travel Journalist of the Year in 2010. In 2017, Algonquin Books published McCarthy's YA novel, Just Fly Away. The novel became a New York Times bestseller. McCarthy's memoir about his life and career in the 1980s, titled ''Brat: An '80s Story'', was released in May 2021 by Grand Central Publishing. In 2023, Grand Central Publishing released Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain, McCarthy's memoir about walking the Camino de Santiago with his son Sam in the summer of 2021. In March 2026, McCarthy published Who Needs Friends? An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship across America, which he presents as an effective anti-dote to toxic masculinity and the manosphere. McCarthy's open and vulernable self-exploration and eventually rescuing of his old male friendships (most of whom had fallen by the wayside) in pop-culture way picks up where before the 2010s I love you, Man left off when toxic masculinity had not yet taken wider hold. ==Personal life==

'', 2010 In 2004, McCarthy announced that he once had a serious alcohol problem, which began at age 12. He entered a detoxification program in 1992, and has been sober since that time. On October 9, 1999, McCarthy married his college sweetheart Carol Schneider almost 20 years after they first dated. He later stated his reasons for tracking her down after they had drifted apart: "I ran into someone who said they had seen Carol and her boyfriend and they seemed really happy, and for some reason it bothered me for a week. I called her and asked her if she was really with this guy and asked her out for coffee." In 2002, Schneider gave birth to a son, Sam, who also became an actor. McCarthy and Schneider divorced in 2005. On August 28, 2011, McCarthy married Irish writer and director Dolores Rice. They have two children, Willow and Rowan. ==Filmography==

Film Television ==Awards and nominations==

Fantafestival • 1987: Won, "Best Actor" – Mannequin Rhode Island International Film Festival • 2004: Won, Grand Prize for "Best Short Film" – News for the Church – qualifying it as an Official Entry with the Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short Film Full Info Including Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD produced by Al Gomes and A. Michelle of Big Noise Sedona International Film Festival • 2005: Won, "Best Short Film" – News for the Church ==References==