Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, musician, and actor. He has bought over 28 million albums worldwide. Connick is ranked among the many prime 60 best-selling male artists in the US by the Recording Business Affiliation of America, with 16 million in licensed gross sales. He has had seven prime 20 US albums, and ten number-one US jazz albums, incomes extra number-one albums than some other artist in US jazz chart historical past.
Connick’s best-selling album in the US is his 1993 Christmas album When My Coronary heart Finds Christmas, which can be top-of-the-line promoting Christmas albums in the US. His highest-charting album is his 2004 launch Solely You, which reached No. 5 within the U.S. and No. 6 in Britain. He has gained three Grammy Awards and two Emmy Awards. He performed Grace’s husband, Leo Markus, on the TV sitcom Will & Grace from 2002 to 2006.
Connick started his performing profession as a tail gunner within the World Warfare II movie Memphis Belle in 1990. He performed a serial killer in Copycat in 1995, earlier than being solid as a jet fighter pilot within the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day. Connick’s first position as a number one man was in 1998’s Hope Floats with Sandra Bullock. His first thriller movie since Copycat got here in 2003 within the movie Fundamental with John Travolta. Moreover, he performed the violent ex-husband in Bug, earlier than two romantic comedies, 2007’s P.S. I Love You, and the main man in New in City with Renée Zellweger in 2009. In 2011, he appeared within the household movie Dolphin Story as Dr. Clay Haskett and within the 2014 sequel, Dolphin Story 2.
