His career took off after he emerged from a shower with a strategically placed towel on the ABC hit. Later, he starred on ‘The Last Ship’ and ‘Euphoria.’
Eric Dane, the hunky actor who found fame and the nickname “McSteamy” for his eight-year run as the plastic surgeon Mark Sloan on the ABC dramain April that he had been diagnosed with the rare degenerative disease, having first experienced symptoms a year and a half earlier.
“He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world,” reads the statement.Jane Baer, Animator on 'Sleeping Beauty,' 'The Rescuers' and 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit,' Dies at 91 “Throughout his journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight. He will be deeply missed, and lovingly remembered always. Eric adored his fans and is forever grateful for the outpouring of love and support he’s received. The family has asked for privacy as they navigate this impossible time.” The San Francisco native also starred for five seasons as the captain of a U.S. Navy destroyer searching for the cure to a global pandemic on the TNT post-apocalyptic drama, he had a secret sex life as the father of Jacob Elordi’s Nate Jacobs during that show’s first two seasons . On the big screen, Dane portrayed Jamie Madrox/Multiple Man, who can create many copies of himself, in Brett Ratner’s. The childhood best friend of Seattle Grace Hospital neurosurgeon Derek Shepherd , Mark had once had an affair with Derek’s wife, Addison . On the second episode of season three, which premiered Sept. 28, 2006, an uncredited Dane is seen emerging from a hotel bathroom in a towel around his waist as Derek and Addison talk about their troubled marriage.. “I just remember walking out of a bathroom with a very nice gentleman blowing smoke toward me.” Signed originally for just one episode, Dane became a regular after that scene and appeared in another 134 installments through May 2012, when Mark and soulmate Lexie are fatally injured in a plane crash during the eighth-season finale .Scott Garfield/ABC/Courtesy Everett Collection “I wasn’t the same guy they had hired. So I had understood when I was let go,” he said. “And Shonda was really great. She protected us fiercely. She protected us publicly. She protected us privately. … But I was probably fired. It wasn’t ceremoniously like, ‘You’re fired,’ it was just like, ‘You’re not coming back.’, I was fucked up longer than I was sober. And that’s when things started going sideways for me. It was overwhelming, and I think I just wanted to pretend that it wasn’t and that I was comfortable with it. Act like you’ve been there, but you haven’t been there.”episode in 2021 during season 17 when he visits Meredith on an imaginary beach while she is in a COVID-induced coma. Eric William Melvin was born in San Francisco on Nov. 9, 1972. When he was 7, his father, William, an architect and interior designer, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. “My grandmother thinks it was an accident,” he said in a. “Everybody’s got a different opinion on it.” His mother, Leah, would raise him and his younger brother, Sean. At San Mateo High School, he was a member on the water polo team, “got roped” into portraying Joe Keller in Arthur Miller’s and fell hard for acting. A month before graduation, he quit school and moved to Los Angeles to take acting classes.newspaper and later her boyfriend, for nine episodes during the series’ fifth and six seasons.“The towel scene has definitely done something for me,” Dane said in 2007. “I guess nobody has to guess what is under my T-shirt anymore.” As he started out at Seattle Grace, Mark was a real scoundrel, called “McSteamy” by the female interns at the hospital . And in promotional materials for the series, he was described as “the kind of guy who women hate falling for but just can’t resist. Oh, and he can even suture his own cut face.”, on which he also served as a producer, the series went on hiatus in April 2017 while he dealt with depression.He said he proposed to Gayheart over dinner in October 2004, and they flew to Las Vegas that night and got married. She filed for divorce in 2018 but in March withdrew those documents, E! NewsTalking about his ALS struggle with Sawyer, he said, “I’m angry because my father was taken from me when I was young, and now there’s a very good chance I’m going to be taken from my girls when they’re very young. At the end of the day, I all I want to do is spend time with my family and work a little bit if I can.”Kevin DolakThe Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2026 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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