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....
Known For
Complete Filmography
Destined to Drive: Patrick Dempsey's Return to Racing
2025
as Self
Hollywood star Patrick Dempsey trades the red carpet for the racetrack in Destined to Drive, an exhilarating documentary capturing his high-stakes ret...

Ferrari
2023
as Piero Taruffi
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
2023
as Sheriff Eric Newlon
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
2023
as Self
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
2022
as Robert Philip
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
2021
as Self
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
2019
Producer
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
2019
as Self
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
2019
Producer
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
2017
as (US version)
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
2016
as Jack
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
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
2015
as Self
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
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
2013
as Self
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
2011
as Tripp
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
2011
Producer
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
2011
as Dylan
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)
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
2010
as Dr. Harrison Copeland
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
2008
as Tom
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
2007
as Robert Philip
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
2007
as Self - Host
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
2007
as Scott Casey
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Brother Bear 2
2006
as Kenai (voice)
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
2004
as Ben Weissman
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
2003
as Peter Connor
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
2002
as Older Louis Masoudi
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
2002
as Andrew Hennings
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
2000
as Mark Kincaid
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
1999
as Fast Eddie
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
1998
as Jeremiah
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
1998
as The Stranger
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
1998
as Rodya Raskolnikov
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
1998
as Mike
The lives of four strange prostitutes will change forever when they go to the Mayor's birthday party.

Denial
1998
as Sam
Couples split up after a comment at an LA dinner party sets up arguments about how truthful partners are in their relationships.

The Escape
1998
as Clayton
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
1998
as Jeffrey
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
1998
Director
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
1997
as Floyd Gaylen
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
1996
as Harrison Burns
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
1996
as Tom Harris
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
1995
as Tom
A grieving family opens its household to an unknown woman who claims to have been their dearly departed's girlfriend.

Outbreak
1995
as Jimbo Scott
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
1994
as Everett Calloway
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
1993
as Billy
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
1993
as Charlie Hunter
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
1993
as Robert Faldo
The Pope accepts when the friend of a young engaged couple jokingly sends him a wedding invitation.

Mobsters
1991
as Meyer Lansky
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
1991
as Charlie Farrow
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
1990
as Robert 'Bobby' Libner
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
1989
as Chris Wooden
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
1989
as Randy Bodek
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
1988
as Michael
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
1988
as Potter Daventry
Garnet Montrose (Michael Beihn) returns home to West Virginia after suffering horrible facial disfigurement from wounds at the battle of Guadalcanal. ...

In the Mood
1987
as Ellsworth "Sonny" Wisecarver
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
1987
as Ronald Miller
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
1986
as Rudy
The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.

A Fighting Choice
1986
as Kellin Taylor
Bright teenager afflicted with epilepsy sues his parents for the right to have "split brain" surgery in order to cure his seizures.

The Stuff
1985
as Underground Stuff Buyer (uncredited)
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
1985
as Corbet
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
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...