Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. ( born September 11, 1967 ) is an American singer, big-band leader / conductor, pianist, actor, and composer.

Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million in certified sales.

Connick, Jr .' s father is a Catholic of Irish ancestry.

Connick is the first cousin of Jefferson Parish District Attorney, Paul Connick, and State Representative, Patrick Connick, of Harvey, also of Jefferson Parish.

Bug, a film directed by William Friedkin, is a psychological thriller filmed in 2005, starring Connick, Ashley Judd, and Michael Shannon.

On January 6, 2012, NBC president Robert Greenblatt announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that Harry Connick, Jr. had been cast in a four-episode arc of NBC's long-running legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as new Executive ADA, David Haden, a dedicated, straight-shooting prosecutor who is assigned a case with Detective Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ).

" What I do like about him is he seems to be a guy who's interested in the truth ," Connick Jr. says of Haden.

Connick, a New Orleans native, is a founder of the Krewe of Orpheus, a music-based New Orleans krewe, taking its name from Orpheus of classical mythology.

Connick is a practicing Roman Catholic.

The music in the film is performed by various artists, such as Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, and Harry Connick, Jr ..

Robert E. Connick ( born 1917 ) is a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jill Goodacre Connick ( born March 29, 1965 in Lubbock, Texas ) is an American actress and former model.

She is married to Harry Connick, Jr.

Dolphin Tale, directed by Charles Martin Smith, starring Nathan Gamble, Ashley Judd, Harry Connick, Jr., Morgan Freeman, and Kris Kristofferson, is based on the real-life story of the dolphin Winter, who was rescued from a crab trap in December 2005 and lost her tail, but has learned to swim with a prosthetic one.

The show's title character is the superhero alter ego of geeky sixteen-year-old Dexter Douglas who attends Harry Connick High School.

Harry Connick Jr., and Branford Marsalis served as honorary chairs of Habitat's hurricane rebuilding program, and one of the many projects along the Gulf Coast is the Musicians ' Village at New Orleans Habitat for Humanity.

Fred is later enrolled at the university, befriending Eddie ( Harry Connick Jr .), a man in his 20s who permits Fred to hang out with him.

There is also a rose window in the transept designed by Charles Connick.

The patient is now a gay florist David ( Turner ) who was a female jazz singer Melinda ( Mueller ) in a former life, and who falls in love with his psychiatrist, widower Dr. Mark Bruckner ( Connick ).

" Just the Way You Are " is one of Joel's most frequently covered songs, and some well-known musicians who have recorded it over the years include Barry White, Diana Krall, Ahmad Jamal, Shirley Bassey, Rosemary Clooney, Frank Sinatra, Isaac Hayes, and Harry Connick, Jr ..

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* Dr. Marvin " Leo " Markus, portrayed by actor and singer Harry Connick, Jr., is a Jewish doctor and Grace's husband since the fifth season.

The film New in Town starring Connick and Renée Zellweger, began filming in January 2008, and was released in January 2009.

* Part of the film Bug ( 2007 ) directed by William Friedkin, starring Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon and Harry Connick, Jr., was filmed in Olancha.

* Hope Floats starring Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick, Jr. was set and filmed in Smithville, and was released at theaters across the nation on May 29, 1998.

Einstürzende Neubauten can be recognized by their Prince-esque logo, which has been subliminally fused into several mainstream American movies ( such as a tattoo in the movie Bug, directed by William Friedkin, starring Harry Connick Jr .) Their sound resembles primitive banging of pots and pans and screaming rants in German about the Russian " famine.

Kathleen Marshall was choreographer and director, with a cast starring Harry Connick, Jr., making his Broadway acting debut as Sid, Kelli O ' Hara as Babe, Michael McKean as Hines and Megan Lawrence as Gladys.

Whitaker continued his directing career with the 1998 romantic comedy, Hope Floats, starring Sandra Bullock and Harry Connick, Jr.

Connick wrote the score for Susan Stroman's Broadway musical Thou Shalt Not, based on Émile Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin, in 2000 ; it premiered in 2001.

The number was restored for the 2006 Broadway revival, allowing star Harry Connick, Jr., to have a second-act song.

The novel was also made into a Broadway musical entitled Thou Shalt Not, with music composition by Harry Connick, Jr ..

Levering left 42nd Street to star in the notorious Broadway flop Thou Shalt Not, composed by Harry Connick, Jr., and choreographed by Susan Stroman.

* Harry Connick Jr. ( 2006 ), Broadway revival of play and found on Harry on Broadway, Act I

He was co-starring as Hines in a revival of The Pajama Game with Harry Connick, Jr. at the American Airlines Theatre in the first half of 2006.

For the 2006 revival, Harry Connick, Jr., played the piano, when Gladys ( Megan Lawrence ), Sid, and Company were on stage for " Hernando's Hideaway ".

On September 2, 2005, Harry Connick, Jr., helped to organize, and appeared in, the NBC-sponsored live telethon concert, A Concert for Hurricane Relief, for relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

On September 6, 2005, Connick was made honorary chair of Habitat for Humanity's Operation Home Delivery, a long-term rebuilding plan for families victimized by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast.

On April 16, 1994, Connick Jr. married former Victoria's Secret model, Jill Goodacre, originally from Texas, at the St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans.

* Chanson du Vieux Carre: Connick On Piano, Volume 3 ( 2007 )

It was released on DVD for the first time on January 9, 2001, and included an audio commentary by Reiner, a 35-minute " Making Of " documentary featuring interviews with Reiner, Ephron, Crystal, and Ryan, seven deleted scenes, and a music video for " It Had To Be You " by Harry Connick, Jr. A Collector's Edition DVD was released on January 15, 2008, including a new audio commentary with Reiner, Ephron, and Crystal, eight deleted scenes, all new featurettes ( It All Started Like This, Stories Of Love, When Rob Met Billy, Billy On Harry, I Love New York, What Harry Meeting Sally Meant, So Can Men And Women Really Be Friends?

In the same year, Garrison was defeated for reelection as district attorney by Harry Connick, Sr. On April 15, 1978, Garrison won a special election over a Republican candidate, Thomas F. Jordan, for a state Circuit Court of Appeals judgeship, a position that he held until his death.