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.

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

Connick is starring in the Broadway revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, which opened at the St. James Theatre in November 2011 in previews.

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.

His first record for the label, Harry Connick Jr., was a mainly instrumental album of standards.

In July 2003, Connick released his first instrumental album in fifteen years, Other Hours Connick on Piano Volume 1.

A music DVD Harry Connick Jr. — " Only You " in Concert was released in March 2004, after it had first aired as a Great Performances special on PBS.

Reviews for Connick and his first SVU episode were fairly positive, TV Guide " cheered " Harry Connick Jr. for " getting in tune " with Law & Order: SVU.

Connick won his first Grammy Award for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance.

Connick won his first Grammy for Best Jazz Male Vocal Performance.

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?

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.

His father, Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Sr., was the district attorney of Orleans Parish from 1973 – 2003.

Mariska Hargitay ( Olivia Benson | Detective Olivia Benson ) and Harry Connick, Jr. ( David Haden | Executive Assistant District Attorney David Haden ) in the Law & Order: SVU episode, " Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( season 13 )# ep12 | Official Story ".

The District 84 state representative, Republican Patrick Connick, practices law in Marrero and resides in Harvey.

He interviewed over a thousand guests including Bob Hope, Tim Robbins, Mel Gibson, Chevy Chase, Duran Duran, Cilla Black, Steve Allen, Barry Humphries, Lou Rawls, Tom Jones, Brit Ekland, Cleo Laine, Tiny Tim, Kylie Minogue, Brigette Neilson, Audrey Hepburn, Elle Macpherson, Shirley MacLaine, Alice Cooper, BB King, Rob Lowe, Dionne Warwick, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Hall, Kirk Douglas, Olivia Newton-John, Phil Collins, Sir Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Sir Peter Ustinov, David Bellamy, Kim Wilde, Michael Aspel, Sally Field, Charles Dance, Whoopi Goldberg, John Thaw, Quincy Jones, Priscilla Presley, Robert Downey Jnr, Mickey Rooney, Martin Sheen, M C Hammer, Lyn Redgrave, ZZ Top, Leo McKern, Kathy Bates, Jane Seymour, Darryl Hannah, Jeremy Irons, Jeffrey Archer, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, James Wood, Diana Ross, Jackie Collins, Harry Connick Jnr, Sir Harry Secombe, Gloria Estafan, Gerard Depardieu, George Benson, Fred Schepsi, Colleen McCullough, Burt Reynolds, Billy Joel, Bette Midler, Ben Elton, Phyllis Diller, Alexei Sayle, Elliott Gould, Oliver Reed, Oliver Stone, Macauley Culkin, Spinal Tap, Robin Williams and Cindy Crawford and various Prime Ministers and politicians.

Some of the best known guests to appear on Tonight Live With Steve Vizard included Bob Hope, Tim Robbins, Mel Gibson, Chevy Chase, Duran Duran, Cilla Black, Steve Allen, Barry Humphries, Lou Rawls, Tom Jones, Brit Ekland, Cleo Lane, Tiny Tim, Kylie Minogue, Brigette Neilson, Audrey Hepburn, Elle Macpherson, Shirely MacLaine, Alice Cooper, BB King, Rob Lowe, Dionne Warwick, Patrick Swayzee, Jerry Hall, Kirk Douglas, Olivia Newton-John, Phil Collins, Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Sir Peter Ustinov, David Bellamy, Kim Wilde, Michael Aspel, Sally Field, Charles Dance, Whoopi Goldberg, John Thaw, Quincy Jones, Priscilla Presley, Robert Downey Jnr, Mickey Rooney, Martin Sheen, M C Hammer, Lyn Redgrave, ZZ Top, Leo McKern, Kathy Bates, Jane Seymour, Darryl Hannah, Jeremy Irons, Jeffrey Archer, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, James Wood, Diana Ross, Jackie Collins, Harry Connick Jnr, Sir Harry Secombe, Gloria Estafan, Gerard Depardieu, George Benson, Fred Schepsi, Colleen McCullough, Burt Reynolds, Billy Joel, Bette Midler, Ben Elton, Phyllis Diller, Alexei Sayle, Elliott Gould, Oliver Reed, Oliver Stone, Macauley Culkin, Spinal Tap, Robin Williams and Cindy Crawford and various Prime Ministers and politicians.

The clip was also shown in a Bravo special, called Worlds of Harry Connick, Jr. in 1999.

Connick also took his funk music to the People's Republic of China in 1995, playing at the Shanghai Center Theatre.

Connick, Jr. was also thrilled to learn he'd be playing an executive assistant district attorney on Law & Order: SVU, because the role gives him the chance to act like his father, who was district attorney of New Orleans, LA for 30 years.

Connick, Jr. also hopes David Haden doesn't cheat on Olivia Benson, he told TV Guide magazine, " I don't want to get caught cheating.

He even mentions his father was excited that he get the role of EADA Haden and Connick, Jr. mentions his father was the district attorney in New Orleans, and as he played Haden, he has something else to share with his father ; he also mentions his mother was a judge and his father wanted him in more courtroom scenes on the show.

Connick also toured North America in support of this album.

Many international stars have also been part of Telethon over the years, including Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Celine Dion and Harry Connick Jnr.

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

The MSO has also performed with Harry Connick, Jr. ( 2004 ), Ben Folds ( 2006 ) and Burt Bacharach ( 2008 ).

In the middle of the thirteenth season, Benson enters into a relationship with a new prosecutor to the district attorney's office, Executive ADA David Haden, portrayed by Harry Connick, Jr., who is also a friend of Hargitay's.