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Patrick Dempsey is an American actor, producer and race car driver that was born January 13, 1966 under the name Patrick Galen Dempsey, in Lewiston, Maine, where he grew up alongside his two older sisters.
He began his acting career in the 1980's after having dropped out of high school, with his first acting gig being in Harvey Fierstein's touring production "Torch Song Trilogy", with not many knowing the heights that he would reach as an actor.
Among his most famous movie appearances we can find: "Scream 3", "Sweet Home Alabama", "Enchanted", "Outbreak", "Bridget Jones's Baby" and "Transformers: Dark of the Moon", among many others but undoubtedly he's worldwide known for his role as Dr. Derek Shepherd "McDreamy" in the hit TV series "Grey's Anatomy".
Patrick Dempsey's net worth
Patrick Dempsey is an American actor, producer and race car driver that has an estimated net worth of $85 million dollars from his work in the TV and movie industry, as well as endorsements and commercial campaigns.
For his role as Derek Shepherd in "Grey's Anatomy", appearing in 244 of the series' 366 episodes and becoming an icon for the show he got paid a huge amount of money.
During the show's peak in popularity, Dempsey was paid $350,000 per episode or around $8 million dollars a season.
Patrick Dempsey and car racing
Patrick Dempsey's loves to race cars and is oftenly seen at pro-am events. He has a huge collection of cars, including vintage and sports cars.
Dempsey co-owns the Vision Racing IndyCar Series team and owns Dempsey Racing as well.
Among the pro-am events that he has competed in we can find the Rolex 24, Tecate SCORE Baja 1000, and even the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Dempsey Racing earned the second place in the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans race in the GTE Am class, as well as the third place in 2012 in the American Le Mans Series, under the LMP2 class.