Appeared on season 7 of the Bachelor which starred his brother Charlie |
O'Connell currently stars as Detective Woody Hoyt on the NBC crime drama Crossing Jordan |
Born in New York City to an immigrant Irish Catholic father and an U.S.-born mother |
Was raised in Manhattan with his younger brother, Charlie O'Connell. |
He is probably best known as "the fat kid from Stand By Me" and his role of Quinn Mallory in the TV series Sliders. |
Jerry O'Connell says that "[t]here was a good six months that I didn't have a bed [at my new apartment]-- I was sleeping on a towel." On an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, designer Nate Berkus redecorated his apartment. |
The 6-foot-2 inch tall O'Connell has an affinity for Cadillacs, as seen in a segment on MTV's Cribs. |
It has been said that Jerry O' Connell has been involved with the creation of the music video "David Duchovny" written an sung by Bree Sharp. |
Quit the show "Sliders" after being denied a higher position as a executive producer as well as other trivial matters. |
Has been nominated as one of the year's (2005) most sexiest men in such magizines as "People" and others of the sort. |