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• Emmy Award-winning American actor John Larroquette currently appears on the television show Boston Legal as Carl Sack. Larroquette gained a great deal of attention playing a lawyer earlier in his career with his role as the slimy, lecherous prosecutor Dan Fielding on the NBC sitcom Night Court.

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: November 25, 1947
  2. Where: New Orleans, LA
  3. Wife: Elizabeth Laroquette
  4. Children: 3
  5. Political party: Libertarian

• Lawyers and Criminals

  Though Larroquette had several small film and guest TV roles in the early 1980s, most notably as a Klingon soldier in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, he first became prominent as a morally lax lawyer on the television sitcom Night Court. Larroquette won the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series four times in a row, and after the fourth time asked that his name be removed from consideration for the award. He has played a lawyer of a different stripe as crusader Mike McBride in the McBride series of TV movies for Hallmark, four of which he has also directed. He also won an Emmy Award for a guest turn as an accused murderer in The Practice. In 2007, he joined the cast of The Practice spinoff Boston Legal as lawyer Carl Sack. He has also played a White House lawyer in a guest spot on The West Wing.

• The John Larroquette Show

  NBC sitcom The John Larroquette Show, a dark comedy about a recovering alcoholic, achieved critical acclaim and a cult following.

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