- He has appeared in seven works of Woody Allen: Celebrity (1998), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Small Time Crooks (2000), Hollywood Ending (2002), Café Society (2016), in the first episode of Crisis in six scenes (2016), and Rifkin's Festival (2020).
- At the time of his death, McGrath was starring in the Off Broadway solo show he'd written, Everything's Fine, an autobiographical play directed by John Lithgow at the Daryl Roth Theatre.
- He's the son of Beatrice and R. Searle McGrath, an independent oil producer from Midland, Texas.
- He is an alumnus of the Trinity School of Midland, TX, the Choate School, and Princeton University.
- As of 2015, he has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Quiz Show (1994), The Insider (1999) and Michael Clayton (2007).
- Was nominated for an Award, BAFTA Award, Tony Award, and Primetime Emmy Award.
- Started his career as a writer for Saturday Night Live.
- McGrath also wrote essays for the New Yorker, the New York Times and Vanity Fair and was a columnist at Air Mail.
- Brother-in-law of children's book author, Ann Matthews Martin (author of "The Baby-sitters Club" franchise and other books).
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