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File No. 014438 · Adjudicated
Eric McCormack
Actor — Will & Grace, Travelers, Perception
Born
1963
Birthplace
TORONTO, ONTARIO
Citizenships
CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
5.0/ 5
Weighted across 2 scored criteria
Designation
Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.
Scorecard
Path A — born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
TORONTO, ONTARIO
Canadian parentage — not scored
Both parents Canadian
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Ontario
Lived in Canada by choice — not scored
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — not scored
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Says so, out loud
Canada claims them back — not scored
Claimed, enthusiastically
Fun fact
Won an Emmy in 2001 for playing a gay lead character on network TV, years before that was common.
The verdict
Born and raised in Toronto, he became Will Truman on *Will & Grace* and charmed Americans so thoroughly they gave him citizenship in 1999. Canada still claims him proudly—he's as Canuck as they come, dual passport and all.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
Related files
More from the files: Actor · Ontario
References — en.wikipedia.org