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Dylan McDermott stars as Ben Harmon in the first installment of American Horror Story: Murder House.

Career Highlights

A Golden Globe® winner and Emmy® nominee, McDermott has proved his talent in film, television and theater.He completed production on the indie, coming-of-age drama, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, alongside Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Paul Rudd, Ezra Miller and Mae Whitman. The film revolves around a shy 15-year-old boy, ‘Charlie’ (played by Lerman), whose life dramatically changes as he learns about secrets buried deep in his past during his freshman year of high school. McDermott will play his father. Produced by John Malkovich and his team at Mr. Mudd, the film will be released by Summit Entertainment in 2012.&nbsp;McDermott completed lensing on Lena Dunham and Ry Russo Young’s Nobody Walks, which follows a Los Angeles family that takes in a stranger who winds up disrupting their lives. The film also stars John Krasinski, Olivia Thirlby and Jane Levy. In 2008, McDermott starred in Nicky Silver’s Three Changes at Playwrights Horizons. Starring opposite Maura Tierney, the play follows an uncomfortably-married, Upper-West-Side couple. Additionally, in September 2006, McDermott was on stage in Eve Ensler’s new play The Treatment. Ensler’s play explored the relationship between a traumatized, former military interrogator (McDermott) and his psychologist colonel who is assigned to give him routine treatment. The play opened the Impact Festival 2006, a New York City-wide arts festival, as part of the Culture Project. McDermott was nominated for a Drama League Award for his performance.Additional film credits include The Pang Brother’s The Messengers, Wonderland, Home for the Holidays, Steel Magnolias, Hamburger Hill, Miracle on 34th Street, In The Line of Fire and Burning Palms. McDermott’s television credits include the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced TNT drama Dark Blue, ABC’s Big Shots, TNT’s dramatic, limited series The Grid opposite Julianna Margulies, and David E. Kelley’s Emmy® Award-winning series The Practice, which earned him a Golden Globe® in 1999 and nominations in 2000 and 2001, as well as an Emmy® nomination in 1999.Other theatre credits include Neil Simon’s production of Biloxi Blues on Broadway; and Golden Boy, directed by Joanne Woodward, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

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Dylan McDermott stars as Ben Harmon in the first installment of American Horror Story: Murder House.

Dylan McDermott as Ben Harmon in FX's AHS: Murder House

Dylan McDermott as Ben Harmon | AHS: Murder House on FX

American Horror Story: Murder House

Dylan McDermott

Career Highlights

Jessica Lange
as Constance Langdon

Denis O'Hare
as Larry Harvey / Burnt Man

Taissa Farmiga
as Violet Harmon

Dylan McDermott as Ben Harmon | AHS: Murder House on FX

Dylan McDermott

Denis O'Hareas Larry Harvey / Burnt Man

Taissa Farmigaas Violet Harmon

Denis O'Hare
as Larry Harvey / Burnt Man

Taissa Farmiga
as Violet Harmon