Patrick Dempsey: ‘Dyslexia was a lesson in humility that saved me from the temptation to believe I was better than anyone else’
The ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ heartthrob would rather devote himself to professional racing, but the entertainment industry is reluctant to let one of its biggest stars go
Patrick Dempsey, born in Maine 59 years ago, has been retiring from acting for more than a decade. His is a reluctant and delayed defection. He made it public in 2013, the year in which he participated for the second time in his favorite motor race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, feeling ready to dedicate himself body and soul to his parallel career as a professional driver. Since then, he has accumulated a dozen appearances in Grand Prix — with his own team, Dempsey Racing-Proton — but also seven film roles and five more on television, including three seasons of the series that launched him into orbit, Grey’s Anatomy.
