Harry Connick Jr.

Harry Connick Jr.

actor, music department, producer

Harry Connick Jr. was born on Sep 11, 1967 in USA. Harry Connick Jr.'s big-screen debut came with When Harry Met Sally... directed by Rob Reiner in 1989. Harry Connick Jr. is known for The Iron Giant directed by Brad Bird, Jennifer Aniston stars as Annie Hughes and Harry Connick Jr. as Dean McCoppin. Harry Connick Jr. has got 6 awards and 18 nominations so far. The most recent award Harry Connick Jr. achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Harry Connick Jr. plays is Annie Live! which will be released on Dec 02, 2021.

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the son of Anita Frances (Levy), a lawyer and judge, and Harry Connick, Sr. (Joseph Harry Fowler Connick), who served as District Attorney of New Orleans from 1973 to 2003. His father is of Irish, English, and German ancestry, and his maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Vienna, Austria and Minsk, Belarus. Harry, Jr.'s mother died of ovarian cancer when he was 13.His parents owned a record store and encouraged their son's interest in music - piano at age three, with a New Orleans jazz band aged ten. He won piano competitions while playing French Quarter clubs and attending the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. At eighteen, he studied at New York's Hunter College and later on at the Manhatan School of Music. At nineteen, he released his first album for Columbia Records and began an extended run performing at the Algonquin's Oak Room, followed a year later by his second album. He wrote the score and sang several songs for Rob Reiner's Quand Harry rencontre Sally... (1989), the soundtrack for which went multi-platinum. So far, while bringing back swing and big band music, he has earned one gold, four platinum and three multi-platinum albums, plus two Grammies. His film acting debut was as B-17 tail-gunner Clay Busby in Memphis Belle (1990). He played mass-murderer Daryll Lee Cullum in the Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter film Copycat (1995) and Captain Jimmy Wilder ("Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy!") in Independence Day : Le Jour de la riposte (1996).Harry lives in Connecticut, is married to the former model Jill Goodacre, and has three daughters, Georgia Tatom, Sara Kate and Charlotte.

  • Birthday

    Sep 11, 1967
  • Place of Birth

    New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  • Also known

    Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr.

Known For

Awards

6 wins & 18 nominations

Walk of Fame
2019
Recording
Winner - Star on the Walk of Fame
Primetime Emmy Awards
2011
Outstanding Music Direction
Winner - Primetime Emmy
Great Performances (1971)
2004
Outstanding Music Direction
Winner - Primetime Emmy
Great Performances (1971)
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