Harry's parents were both lawyers (his father Harry became New Orleans District Attorney, his mother Anita, a judge, died of ovrian cancer when Harry Jr. was 13). They owned a record store and encouraged their son's interest in music - piano at age three, with a New Orleans jazz band aged ten. He won piano competitions while playing French Quarter clubs and attending the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. At eighteen, he studied at New York's Hunter College and later on at the Manhatan School of Music. At nineteen, he released his first album for Columbia Records and began an extended run performing at the Algonquin's Oak Room, followed a year later by his second album. He wrote the score and sang several songs for Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally..., the soundtrack for which went multi-platinum. So far, while bringing back swing and big band music, he has earned one gold, four platinum and three multi-platinum albums, plus two Grammies. His film acting debut was as B-17 tail-gunner Clay Busby in Memphis Belle. He played mass-murderer Daryll Lee Cullum in the Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter film Copycat and Captain Jimmy Wilder ("Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy!") in Independence Day. Harry lives in Connecticut, is married to the former model Jill Goodacre, and has three daughters, Georgia Tatom, Sara Kate and Charlotte.


Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1990" in John Willis's Screen World, Vol. 42. [1990] In the New York Big Band Concert video, Harry changes the lyrics of the song "It Had to Be You" from "I love you still" to "I love you Jill," which is his wife's name. Father, Harry Connick Sr., was the District Attorney of Orleans Parish (New Orleans), a position he was elected to when Harry was a toddler and served for twenty-nine years until he retired in 2003. Has one sister. Harry was just voted "Best Dressed" in the September 14, 1998, People Magazine. Because of his style of singing, so similar to Frank Sinatra, he was given the nickname "The Vice-Chairman of the Board." Sinatra had nothing but praise for Connick, and referred to him simply as The Kid. Welcomed third daughter, Charlotte, on June 26, 2002. Was nominated for the 2006 Tony Award (New York City) for Actor in a Musical for "The Pajama Game".