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Dane died Thursday afternoon after a battle with Als. He was 53.<\/p>\n
The actor appeared in 10 seasons of the ABC medical drama, where he portrayed plastic surgeon Mark Sloan<\/a>, also known as \u201cMcSteamy.\u201d Dane portrayed the character in seasons two through nine, the latter of which was where Mark died. He made one more appearance on Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/a>\u2018s for a cameo during the 17th season.<\/p>\n Series creator Shonda Rhimes<\/a> shared a statement with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> on behalf of Shondaland<\/a>, noting, \u201cEric Dane was a beloved member of the Shondaland and Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/a> families. He was truly a gifted actor whose portrayal of Dr. Mark Sloan left an indelible mark on the series and on audiences around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are grateful for the artistry, spirit, friendship and humanity he shared with us for so many years,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The cast and crew of Grey\u2019s Anatomy are paying homage to Eric Dane. Dane died Thursday afternoon after a battle with Als. He was 53. The actor appeared in 10 seasons of the ABC medical drama, where he portrayed plastic surgeon Mark Sloan, also known as \u201cMcSteamy.\u201d Dane portrayed the character in seasons two through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2292473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2292472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Greys-Anatomy-Cast-and-Crew-Pay-Tribute-to-Eric-Dane.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292474,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292472\/revisions\/2292474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}