Is sean hayes the actor gay

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Will & Grace star Sean Hayes is a multi-talented entertainer.

While attending college, he supported himself as a classical pianist and began to venture into acting with appearances in student productions. The youngest of five children, he began studying music as a child and continued his path at Illinois State University where he majored in piano performance and conducting. Worried that he might be typecast for being an openly gay actor playing a flamboyantly gay character, Hayes refused to discuss his sexuality in public until 2010, four years after Will and Grace had come to an end.

"I thought, 'I don't know how to handle this.

He is an actor, singer, producer, and comedian. It's never enough That's the thing about celebrity: It sets you up to fail because the expectation is so high of what's needed, what's wanted from you that the second you don't [meet it], you disappoint people."

Reaction to Hayes's revelation about his personal life was muted, and he not only sold a sitcom under his production shingle - "Hot in Cleveland" (TV Land, 2010-15) with Betty White, Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick and Jane Leeves - but he finally earned a juicy, straight role, starring as the romantic lead opposite vocal powerhouse Kristin Chenoweth in the Broadway revival of the musical Promises, Promises in 2010.

people still don't quite understand, which is another great reason Will and Grace is back on the air."

"If you don’t have the words to explain it to your family, you can say, ‘Like Will and Grace,’ or ‘Like Ellen DeGeneres,’ or whoever's out in a public...

"I feel like I've contributed monumentally to the success of the gay movement in America, and if anyone wants to argue that, I'm open to it. The hint came in an interview with The Advocate.

In November 2014, it was revealed that Sean Hayes had married his 8-year-old partner, a certain Scott Icenogle, in a private ceremony during Thanksgiving Day.

Scott Icenogle is a composer.

Hayes has always been gay since his high school days. For eight highly-rated seasons, his role of Jack - the flamboyant sidekick of a straitlaced gay lawyer (Eric McCormack) - was not only a favorite of viewers but was a significant catalyst for more widespread acceptance of the gay community in the general media. In recent years he has sung characters in Monsters University, How Murray Saved Christmas, and The Emoji Movie.

Sean Hayes’ net worth is estimated at $18 million.

To improve his chances of success in the entertainment industry, Hayes moved to Los Angeles in 1995, and two years later he made a big hit with his role as Jack McFarland, an extravagant gay man in Will & Grace.

For his role as Jack McFarland, Sean received seven consecutive Emmy Award nominations for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series, his first nomination was in 2000, and he has also been nominated five times in a row for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Mini-series or TV movie.

As a repressed New Yorker who tangles with the punky Holmes over the use of his oven for her Thanksgiving turkey, Hayes seemed to be caught uncomfortably between drama and comedy. He was less successful in a small role in the Katie Holmes indie hit, "Pieces of April" (2003). Hayes also voiced the fussy, computer-generated Fish in the critically mauled adaptation of "Dr.

His big break came when he landed the leading role of a gay photographer and incurable romantic who develops a crush on a possibly straight male model in "Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss" (1998). The show returned for a second season in early 2014. Hayes, who was born on June 26, 1970, in Chicago and is of Irish descent, was attracted to acting at a very young age.

get bored with it," he joked. 

This isn't the first time Hayes has discussed his sexuality, in a 2016 interview with Playbill magazine Hayes regretted not being more visibly out during his stint on Will and Grace's first run. On a better note, he was surprisingly cast as the brilliantly abrasive comedian Jerry Lewis in the television biopic "Martin and Lewis" (CBS, 2002) opposite Jeremy Northam as Dean Martin.

Now in a recent interview with People, the man behind "Just Jack", Sean Hayes, has opened up about his past and struggles coming out.

While the character he plays is louder-than-life and the embodiment of living a proud life, Hayes struggled with coming to terms with his sexuality, even down to his early interests in theatre.

"I kept it hidden, the fact that I was in high school plays, from my brothers and my family," Hayes explained.