<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> William Hall Macy Jr. (born March 13, 1950) is an American actor . His film career has been built mostly on his appearances in small, independent films, though he has also appeared in summer action films . Macy has described himself as "sort of a Middle American, WASPy, Lutheran kind of guy...Everyman". </P> <P> Macy has won two Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor . Since 2011, he has played Frank Gallagher, a main character in the Showtime adaptation of the British television series Shameless . Macy and actress Felicity Huffman have been married since 1997 . </P> <P> Macy was born in Miami, Florida, and grew up in Georgia and Maryland . His father, William Hall Macy, Sr. (1922 - 2007), was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and an Air Medal for flying a B - 17 Flying Fortress bomber in World War II; he later ran a construction company in Atlanta, Georgia, and worked for Dun & Bradstreet before taking over a Cumberland, Maryland - based insurance agency when Macy was nine years old . His mother, Lois (née Overstreet; 1920 - 2001), was a war widow who met Macy's father after her first husband died in 1943; Macy has described her as a "Southern belle". </P>

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