Shonda Rhimes Defends TV Star Eric Dane’s Oscars In Memoriam Omission

Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes says stay tuned to the upcoming Emmy Awards to see the late Eric Dane given his proper due as a popular TV star. “Well, he’s not a movie star,” Rhimes told Entertainment Tonight on Sunday night backstage at the Academy Awards when asked why the Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria actor was left out of the In Memoriam section. “I feel like when the Emmys come around, he will be immortalized the way he should be. You can’t fault the Oscars for the fact they’re looking at movies, and there were so many people who are lost. Eric was unique to television and I can’t wait to see what they do with him,” Rhimes added. Related Stories TV Patrick Dempsey Explains His Darker TV Return With 'Memory of a Killer': "I Don't Get This Type of Character Offered Often" Movies Polymarket and Kalshi Got the Oscars About 80 Percent Right Dane died on Feb. 19 at age 53 years old from respiratory failure, and with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, listed as an underlying cause on his death certificate. On the big screen, he portrayed Jamie Madrox/Multiple Man in Brett Ratner’s X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), and Dane was a newspaper reporter alongside Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston in David Frankel’s Marley & Me (2008). But he’s best known for TV roles, which includes an eight-year run as the plastic surgeon Mark Sloan on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy , as the captain of a U.S. Navy destroyer searching for the cure to a global pandemic on the TNT post-apocalyptic drama The Last Ship , on The WB’s Charmed series and on HBO’s Euphoria as the father of Jacob Elordi’s Nate Jacobs during that show’s first two seasons (2019-22). Dane also played an ALS patient in an episode of NBC’s medical drama Brilliant Minds , ending the episode with a voice...