The Houston-born actor is best known for playing Richard Fish, co-owner of law firm Cage & Fish, on the legal series Ally McBeal from 1997 to 2002 - a role that earned him a Screen Actors Guild award.

Flockhart shot to mega-stardom in the late 1990s as the star of “Ally McBeal” about a quirky Boston lawyer with miniskirts and maxi-neuroses — a role she reprised at the Emmys in January.