Fictional Character History
Will was born on October 23, 1966 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to WASP parents Marilyn (Blythe Danner) and George (Sydney Pollack); he has two brothers, Paul and Sam. Will came out in 1985, during college, when — after being accused of living in denial by Jack McFarland, who refused to take it back — he found himself attracted to a poster of Kevin Bacon. He then realized that his relationship with Grace masked his true sexuality. He and Grace have a fight after Will comes out to her — after proposing marriage to her in a desperate means of avoiding sex — and do not speak to each other for a year. Eventually, however, they reconcile, and become inseparable best friends.
After graduating from Columbia University and NYU School of Law, he starts working for a big-time law firm on track to make partner, but decides to quit and start his own practice. This falls through in the show's second season, and he begins working for Doucette & Stein, a firm that he works for until the end of the seventh season. His next job is working for the mysterious Malcolm (Alec Baldwin), but that comes to an end when Malcolm reveals that he is an FBI agent. In the eighth season, Will takes a job at the Coalition of Justice, a business providing legal support for people who cannot afford it, though he ultimately returns to Doucette & Stein, having taken back his old job after being offered a partnership by his new boss at the firm, played by [[Lily
Being the most calm and down to earth in contrast to Grace's many neurotic tendencies, Jack's camp behavior and Karen's dry, sarcastic wit. He also has a dry sense of humor, often making jokes about the other three characters.
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