Background
Close was born in Staten Island, New New York
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Close graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications at the University of Southern California in 1989.
Career
Close"s father is an orthopedic surgeon. Close is the eldest of three brothers. His family moved to Indiana, then to Michigan, and finally settled in San Diego when Close was seven years old.
Close was interested in acting from an early age and had some stage experience in school, but did not decide to pursue an acting career until after college.
His first role was in a theater production Rat Songs in Los Angeles, after which he was offered a part in the film American Maine (1992) and Safe House directed by Elena Mannus. He had a brief stint in daytime television when he played Sawyer Walker on National Broadcasting Company"s daytime soap Santa Barbara from 1992 to 1993.
He received a Soap Opera Digest Award nomination for Outstanding Male Newcomer for his role as Sawyer Walker on Santa Barbara. Close later had leading roles on short-lived primetime shows such as McKenna (1994–1995), Dark Skies (1996–1997), The Magnificent Seven (1998–1999), Now and Again (1999–2000), and the Steven Spielberg miniseries production, Taken (2002).
Close is best known for his role on Columbia Broadcasting System drama Without a Trace as Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Martin Fitzgerald.
The show ran for seven seasons from 2002 to 2009. He later had recurring role on Suits, and was series regular on another Columbia Broadcasting System show Chaos. In 2012, Close began co-starring with Connie Britton in the American Broadcasting Company drama Nashville as Teddy Conrad, initially the husband of Britton’s character Rayna Jaymes and later the mayor of Nashville.
