Dylan McDermott (born Mark Anthony McDermott; October 26, 1961) is an American actor. He is known for his role as lawyer and law firm head Bobby Donnell on the legal drama The Practice, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama and received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

McDermott is also known for his roles in four seasons (the first, second, eighth, and ninth) of the FX horror anthology American Horror Story, with the subtitles Murder House, Asylum, Apocalypse, and 1984, in which he played Ben Harmon, Johnny Morgan, and Bruce, respectively. He also appeared as drug lord Richard Wheatley in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit spin-off Law & Order: Organized Crime; Lieutenant Carter Shaw on the TNT series Dark Blue; in two short-lived CBS dramas, Hostages and Stalker; and in the 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street. In 2022, he joined FBI: Most Wanted as the new lead, replacing the departing Julian McMahon.

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