Paul McCrane
Paul David McCrane (born
January 19,
1961) is an
American movie,
television and
theatre actor. Some of his roles include Emil Antonowsky in
RoboCop, Montgomery McNeil in
Fame , Astronaut
Pete Conrad in
From the Earth to the Moon,
cancer-absorbing
mutant Leonard Betts in
The X-Files and
Robert Romano on
ER.
McCrane has been known to take roles where his characters experience horrible
pain and
injury or violent
death: Emil Antonowsky in
RoboCop had acid spilled on him and he was run over; Robert Romano in
ER had his arm chopped off by the rear rotor blade of a
helicopter and was later crushed to death by another chopper; and Leonard Betts from
The X-Files was
decapitated in an
ambulance crash, only to regrow his head and soon get blown up in a car later in the episode.
Following his acting departure from
ER, McCrane has directed several episodes of the show.
McCrane was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He married Dana Kellin, a
jewelry designer, in
1998; they have two children, William Thomas and Noa Catherine.
McCrane began appearing on
Fox Network's television series
24 on April 24, 2006 as the manipulating antagonist
Graham.
