Biography
Actor Eric Close found his breakthrough role on the prime-time serial drama
Sisters (1991), opposite
Julianne Phillips,
Sela Ward, and
Swoosie Kurtz. Close's performance as a policeman in the sixth season of the program established his onscreen reputation as a solid and reliable performer. Alongside that program, Close landed roles in low-rent films such as
Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (1994) and the made-for-television soaper
The Stranger Beside Me (1995). The actor then received second billing after small-screen mainstay
Michael Biehn in the Western series
The Magnificent Seven (1998), joined the regular cast of the short-lived sci-fi drama
The Sky Is Falling (1999), and scored a lead in Glenn Gordon Caron's eccentric, short-lived superhero series
Now and Again. Close drew his largest audience, however, with his contributions to the outstanding crime-investigation drama
Without a Trace, as Martin Fitzgerald, the missing-persons agent amorously, and perhaps unwisely, involved with colleague Samantha Spade (
Poppy Montgomery). ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide