Patrick Dempsey

Patrick Dempsey

1966-01-13 Lewiston, Maine, USA 62 Credits

Biography

Patrick Galen Dempsey (born January 13, 1966) is an American actor and race car driver. He is best known for his role as neurosurgeon Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd in Grey's Anatomy. He had early success as an actor, starring in a number of films in the 1980s, including Can't Buy Me Love (1987) and Loverboy (1989). In the 1990s, he mostly appeared in smaller roles in film, such as Outbreak (1995) and television. Dempsey was also in Scream 3 (2000) where he played the role of Detective Mark Kincaid....

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Destined to Drive: Patrick Dempsey's Return to Racing

2025

as Self

Acting

Hollywood star Patrick Dempsey trades the red carpet for the racetrack in Destined to Drive, an exhilarating documentary capturing his high-stakes ret...

Ferrari

Ferrari

2023

as Piero Taruffi

6.4
Acting

Set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing...

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

2023

as Sheriff Eric Newlon

6.5
Acting

After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the holida...

Racing With Giants: Porsche at Le Mans

Racing With Giants: Porsche at Le Mans

2023

as Self

6.0
Acting

This captivating film celebrates Porsche's storied legacy at Le Mans and the love of driving shared by both Porsche and Mobil 1. Look back at the last...

Disenchanted

Disenchanted

2022

as Robert Philip

6.7
Acting

Disillusioned with life in the city, feeling out of place in suburbia, and frustrated that her happily ever after hasn’t been so easy to find, Giselle...

Alumination

Alumination

2021

as Self

5.5
Acting

For nearly a century, the image of the Airstream travel trailer, with sunlight gleaming off the aluminum of its sleek silver-bullet body, has evoked t...

The Art of Racing in the Rain

The Art of Racing in the Rain

2019

Producer

8.2
Producing

A family dog – with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind – evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.

Hurley

Hurley

2019

as Self

4.8
Acting

In the world of 1970s car racing, Hurley Haywood was cool, calm and collected. A five-time 24 Hours of Daytona winner, three-time Le Mans winner and T...

Hurley

Hurley

2019

Producer

4.8
Producing

In the world of 1970s car racing, Hurley Haywood was cool, calm and collected. A five-time 24 Hours of Daytona winner, three-time Le Mans winner and T...

Red Nose Day Actually

Red Nose Day Actually

2017

as (US version)

7.0
Acting

Fourteen years after the events of the first film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, act...

Bridget Jones's Baby

Bridget Jones's Baby

2016

as Jack

6.4
Acting

After breaking up with Mark Darcy five years earlier, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single...

We Are Racers

2015

as Self

Acting

Michelin and Porsche funded short documentary about Porsche's 2015 endurance racing season leading up to Le Mans.

Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman

Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman

2015

as Self

7.5
Acting

The world knows Paul Newman as an Academy Award winning actor with a fifty-plus year career as one of the most prolific and revered actors in American...

Sports Insiders on 24 Hours of Le Mans

2014

as Self

Acting

The 24hours of Le Mans is a mythical race. Since its origin, it has fascinated drivers from across the world and not necessary from the Endurance worl...

Ushi Must Marry

Ushi Must Marry

2013

as Self

3.6
Acting

Ushi Hirosaki has to marry according to Japanese tradition before her 30th birthday. Because time is running out, her family decides she has to marry ...

Flypaper

Flypaper

2011

as Tripp

6.4
Acting

A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.

Flypaper

Flypaper

2011

Producer

6.4
Producing

A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

2011

as Dylan

6.2
Acting

The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes ap...

Boys of Bonneville

2011

as Narrator (voice)

6.7
Acting

This documentary tells the story of an unsung hero and self-made man, David Abbott Jenkins, who, with almost superhuman stamina and boyish charm, set ...

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day

2010

as Dr. Harrison Copeland

5.9
Acting

Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day.

Made of Honor

Made of Honor

2008

as Tom

6.5
Acting

Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is start...

Enchanted

Enchanted

2007

as Robert Philip

6.8
Acting

The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the str...

24 x 24: Wide Open with Jeff Gordon

24 x 24: Wide Open with Jeff Gordon

2007

as Self - Host

Acting

Explores the life both on and off the track of one of NASCAR racing's greatest and most beloved icons. The fast-paced documentary creates an in-depth ...

Freedom Writers

Freedom Writers

2007

as Scott Casey

7.9
Acting

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Brother Bear 2

Brother Bear 2

2006

as Kenai (voice)

6.6
Acting

Kenai finds his childhood human friend Nita and the two embark on a journey to burn the amulet he gave to her before he was a bear, much to Koda's dis...

Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004

as Ben Weissman

6.9
Acting

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Lucky 7

Lucky 7

2003

as Peter Connor

5.8
Acting

Instead of really living her life since losing her mother at age 7, Seattle lawyer Amy Myer sticks to a foolproof 'timeline' her mother drew as a guid...

The Emperor's Club

The Emperor's Club

2002

as Older Louis Masoudi

7.1
Acting

William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new stud...

Sweet Home Alabama

Sweet Home Alabama

2002

as Andrew Hennings

6.4
Acting

New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—inc...

Scream 3

Scream 3

2000

as Mark Kincaid

6.0
Acting

While Sidney Prescott and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises...

Me and Will

Me and Will

1999

as Fast Eddie

5.5
Acting

Two women with a passion for motorcycles meet while going through rehab. When they discover they've both longed to ride Captain America's red, white, ...

Jeremiah

Jeremiah

1998

as Jeremiah

6.7
Acting

The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on seve...

There's No Fish Food in Heaven

There's No Fish Food in Heaven

1998

as The Stranger

3.7
Acting

Black comedy about an obsessive street graffiti artist, who falls obsessively in love with a frustrated artist he meets. Unfortunately, rather than tr...

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

1998

as Rodya Raskolnikov

6.5
Acting

This is the story of Rodya Raskalnikov (Patrick Dempsey), an intellectual who is suspended from University and is living in poverty in 19th century Ru...

The Treat

The Treat

1998

as Mike

3.2
Acting

The lives of four strange prostitutes will change forever when they go to the Mayor's birthday party.

Denial

Denial

1998

as Sam

4.6
Acting

Couples split up after a comment at an LA dinner party sets up arguments about how truthful partners are in their relationships.

The Escape

The Escape

1998

as Clayton

5.3
Acting

Clayton, at the age of nineteen, is convicted for a crime he did not commit. Ten years afterwards, after having taken all the abuses against him in pr...

Ava's Magical Adventure

Ava's Magical Adventure

1998

as Jeffrey

5.7
Acting

Eddie is a 10-year-old girl who runs away from home with her best friend Ava, a 2-ton circus elephant. They are pursued by everyone from the police to...

Ava's Magical Adventure

Ava's Magical Adventure

1998

Director

5.7
Directing

Eddie is a 10-year-old girl who runs away from home with her best friend Ava, a 2-ton circus elephant. They are pursued by everyone from the police to...

Hugo Pool

Hugo Pool

1997

as Floyd Gaylen

5.1
Acting

Hugo Pool is a quirky tale of a Los Angeles pool cleaner who falls in love with a young man dying of Lou Gerhig's Disease.

A Season in Purgatory

A Season in Purgatory

1996

as Harrison Burns

6.0
Acting

True story about a kid from rich family with political ties who covers up a suspicious death of a young woman. This comes back to haunt him later.

The Right to Remain Silent

The Right to Remain Silent

1996

as Tom Harris

5.0
Acting

Bright and eager to hit the streets in search of bad guys, rookie cop Christine Paley is disappointed when she's instead assigned to process criminals...

Bloodknot

Bloodknot

1995

as Tom

5.2
Acting

A grieving family opens its household to an unknown woman who claims to have been their dearly departed's girlfriend.

Outbreak

Outbreak

1995

as Jimbo Scott

6.6
Acting

A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus sprea...

With Honors

With Honors

1994

as Everett Calloway

6.7
Acting

Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who m...

Bank Robber

Bank Robber

1993

as Billy

4.1
Acting

After robbing a bank, the robber hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tennants for protection as well as the...

Face the Music

Face the Music

1993

as Charlie Hunter

4.8
Acting

Tensions run high when a recently-divorced couple are given an offer they can't refuse. Once well-established movie songwriters, Lisa and Charlie are ...

For Better and for Worse

For Better and for Worse

1993

as Robert Faldo

3.0
Acting

The Pope accepts when the friend of a young engaged couple jokingly sends him a wedding invitation.

Mobsters

Mobsters

1991

as Meyer Lansky

6.3
Acting

The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime.....

Run

Run

1991

as Charlie Farrow

6.0
Acting

When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.

Coupe de Ville

Coupe de Ville

1990

as Robert 'Bobby' Libner

6.4
Acting

Meet the Libner brothers: Marvin, the oldest, is a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Buddy, the middle child, is a timid dreamer. Bobby, the youngest, i...

Happy Together

Happy Together

1989

as Chris Wooden

5.8
Acting

Christopher is an ambitious college freshman, striving to become a writer. Through a computer fault he's assigned the same room as Alex, a real party ...

Loverboy

Loverboy

1989

as Randy Bodek

6.1
Acting

Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Señor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a pizza ...

Some Girls

Some Girls

1988

as Michael

5.6
Acting

While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he a...

In a Shallow Grave

In a Shallow Grave

1988

as Potter Daventry

1.0
Acting

Garnet Montrose (Michael Beihn) returns home to West Virginia after suffering horrible facial disfigurement from wounds at the battle of Guadalcanal. ...

In the Mood

In the Mood

1987

as Ellsworth "Sonny" Wisecarver

5.5
Acting

When 15-year-old Sonny Wisecarver has an affair with his older neighbor Francine and then runs off to marry her, a stern judge has the union annulled....

Can't Buy Me Love

Can't Buy Me Love

1987

as Ronald Miller

6.9
Acting

Nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller rescues cheerleader Cindy Mancini from parental punishment after she accidentally destroys her mother's designer clo...

Meatballs III: Summer Job

Meatballs III: Summer Job

1986

as Rudy

4.3
Acting

The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.

A Fighting Choice

A Fighting Choice

1986

as Kellin Taylor

7.0
Acting

Bright teenager afflicted with epilepsy sues his parents for the right to have "split brain" surgery in order to cure his seizures.

The Stuff

The Stuff

1985

as Underground Stuff Buyer (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dess...

Heaven Help Us

Heaven Help Us

1985

as Corbet

6.5
Acting

Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class ...

The Household Guide to Dying

N/A

Acting

Acerbic household influencer Delia Bennett decides to write ‘The Book’ on how to die well. When things don’t go according to plan, she is forced to co...