Eric Close

Eric Close was born in Staten Island, New York on May 24th, 1967. Before settling down in San Diego at the age of seven, his family had moved to Indiana and Michigan. Eric graduated with a B.A. in communications at the University of Southern California in 1989.

He married Keri in 1995 and has two daughters, Katie (born in October 1998) and Ella (born in April 2001). Eric is a very reserved person who likes to keep his private life separate from his work. He loves traveling the world. He's a sportsman, preferring outdoor sports such as mountain climbing/free climbing, snow skiing, tennis, golf, sailing and surfing. He mentioned in one of his many interviews that he liked fly-fishing

Having always been a passionate reader of historical books, when the part of John Loengard (Dark Skies a television series based in the '60's) was proposed to him in an interview he declared, "Perfect. I now have the opportunity to live the moments that I could only have heard by what people said. Taking part in a project like this, it's like having a time machine at your disposal. Kennedy's new frontiers, which for my generation are stories told long ago, sometimes faded and incomplete. It would be wonderful to breathe filling your lungs with the air of that era.

His first role was in the theatre production Rat Songs in L.A. He was then offered a part in the film American Me and Safe House, directed by Elena Mannus. Eric returned to the theatre with Thanksgiving Cries.

Eric has appeared as a guest star in many television series: Santa Barbara (Sawyer Walker), MacGyver (security guard), and Major Dad (private tutor). He starred in McKenna (Brick McKenna), Sisters (police officer), Dark Skies (John Loengard), the television western The Magnificant Seven (Vin Tanner), and Now and Again (Michael Wiseman).

At this moment Eric is filming Without a Trace. This television series is based on a group of FBI agents who investigate cases of missing persons.

Eric has also played part in Keeping Secrets, Without Constent, A Stranger Beside Me, Hercules and the Lost Kingdom, Long Island Fever, N.T.S.B./Everything That Rises, and Taken.