Biografía

Spends every Thanksgiving with Helen Hunt.

When he was a teenager, studied ballet with his childhood friend Eric Stoltz in Santa Barbara, California, so that "they could meet girls."

When Edwards received a large bonus from the producers of ER, he donated a large portion of it to the Santa Barbara Junior High School for the renovation of its theater, later named in honor of his middle school drama teacher, Marjorie Luke. The Theater is now home to numerous plays and performances not only for the Junior High School, but also for the entire community.

His grandfather designed Walt Disney Studios in the 1930s.

Left his role in the 8th season of Sala de urgencias (1994) to spend more time with his family. Co-star, Noah Wyle did the same in the 10th season (though he has returned sporadically since).

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said, "God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane". I said, "If I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor."

(2013, Pet Sematary II) Oh, my God. A movie I don't think I ever even seen. And yet it's probably the most important movie I've ever worked on, because it's the movie I met my wife on. What's funny, though, is that she doesn't usually do makeup on movies. She's more of a fashion makeup artist. So the coincidence that we would end up in that same place-Peachtree, Georgia!-on that movie... me, who can't even watch horror movies, and she, who doesn't really work on films, and yet we ended up meeting there. It goes back to my earlier comment about how surprises are always the best experiences.

(2013, on Gotcha!) Well, there's a game you couldn't play today. Isn't that wild? All that innocence gone. There's no way. It's just tragic. But that movie was pure fun. I'd already done Revenge Of The Nerds with Jeff Kanew, so I already had a great friendship with the director, and he'd gotten the script and convinced them to be able to do a shoot in France and Germany all summer and then come back and shoot at UCLA. Co-starring an unbelievably beautiful and sexy Linda Fiorentino, who made us all laugh. And it's the one film where my kids really make fun of me now. All that blond hair...

(2013, on Miracle Mile) Oh, that was great. That was a script by Steve De Jarnatt, who also directed. I actually just saw Steve about six months ago in New York. They did a doomsday film festival in New York, so he and I were guests, and they screened Miracle Mile, which I hadn't seen in 20 years or whatever. It's been awhile! But that was a script that everybody wanted to make, but they wanted him to change the ending. It was this great adventure, but they wanted it to have a happy ending. But he stuck it out, and luckily he stuck it out long enough that I was old enough to play the part. So I got to do it, and we did it at a time when there really was no green screen for special effects. You had to shoot what was there. It's amazing how dated that film looks now, because of our ability to do things technically now. I mean, it really looks antiquated. Mare Winningham is one of the greatest actresses ever. It was eight weeks of night shooting, though, so you'd be driving home from work at, like, 6 in the morning, having had a wrap beer, and then you're suddenly going, "Oh my God, what do people think of somebody having a beer at 6 in the morning whenever everyone else is on their way to work?