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Harry Connick Jr.
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Harry's parents were both lawyers (his father Harry became New Orleans District Attorney, his mother Anita, a judge, died of ovrian cancer when Harry Jr. was 13). They owned a record store and encouraged their son's interest in music - piano at age three, with a New Orleans jazz band aged ten. He won piano competitions while playing French Quarter clubs and attending the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. At eighteen he studied at New York's Hunter College and later on at the Manhatan School of Music. At nineteen he released his first album for Columbia Records and began an extended run performing at the Algonquin's Oak Room, followed a year later by his second album. He wrote the score and sang several songs for Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally... (1989), the soundtrack for which went multi-platinum. So far, while bringing back swing and big band music, he has earned one gold, four platinum and three multi-platinum albums, plus two Grammies. His film acting debut was as B-17 tail-gunner Clay Busby in Memphis Belle (1990). He played mass-murderer Daryll Lee Cullum in the Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter film Copycat (1995) and Captain Jimmy Wilder ("Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy!") in Independence Day (1996). Harry lives in Connecticut, is married to the former model Jill Goodacre, and has two daughters, Georgia Tatom and Sara Kate.
Trivia
(1990) Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1990" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 42.
Son of Harry Connick Sr., New Orleans Parish District Attorney
In the New York Big Band Concert video, Harry changes the lyrics of the song "It Had to be You" from "I love you still" to "I love you Jill", which is his wife's name.
Two daughters Georgia (b.1996) and Sara (b.September 1997)
Father, Harry Connick Sr. is the district attorney of New Orleans, and has been since Harry was a toddler.
Mother, a Lousiana Supreme Court justice, died when Harry was 13 years old.
Has one sister
Having grown up in New Orleans, Harry founded a Mardi Gras krewe in 1993. "orpheus" is the first New Orleans krewe to include male and female members of all races.
Two daughters, Georgia Tatom (b.4/1996) and Sara Kate (b.9/12/1997)
Harry was just voted "Best Dressed" in the September 14, 1998 People Magazine.
In 1973, Harry's father, Harry Connick Sr., beat Jim Garrison for the position of New Orleans Parish District Attorney. This was the same Jim Garrison who launched the investigation concerning the Kennedy assassination, and who is featured in Oliver Stone's 1993 film "JFK".
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