Dylan McDermott has been an actor on the verge of stardom ever since his promising feature-film debut as a disaffected young sergeant who leads his squad on a ten-day battle to capture a hill in 1987's hard-hitting Vietnam drama Hamburger Hill. It was a searing entrée into filmmaking for an actor who had already pulled duty on the stages of New York, and one many observers thought would pave a smooth and direct road to cinema fame for the handsome young newcomer. But such was not the case: though McDermott went on to achieve a modicum of success playing the foil, romantic or otherwise, opposite a number of Hollywood heavy-hitters, he has yet to enjoy a significant big-screen breakout. With his starring role in his first series,
David E. Kelley's hour-long legal drama The Practice, his long-predicted superstardom was finally realized on the small screen.
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