He is the older of two brothers. His father is an architect and interior designer based in San Francisco. His mother was a homemaker. Eric Dane was a good athlete in high school. There, he started amateur stage work and soon realized that this was all he wanted to do. He moved to Los Angeles and made his television debut in 1993 on "The Wonder Years" (1988). On October 29, 2004, in Las Vegas, Eric Dane married actress Rebecca Gayheart. They have a daughter, Billie Beatrice Dane, who was born in May 2010.