O\'Hurley was born in Kittery, Maine, the son of Jean, a housewife, and John O\'Hurley, an ear, nose, and throat surgeon. O\'Hurley attended Natick High School in Natick, Massachusetts and Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, Connecticut and graduated from Providence College in 1976 with a BA in Theatre. His older sister Carol died in 1970 at the age of 17 due to epileptic seizures, and so O\'Hurley performs charitable work for the Epilepsy Foundation. He has younger twin brothers, Bruce and Neal. He also has a younger sister named Susan.\n', '

On Seinfeld O\'Hurley played J. Peterman, a fictionalized version of catalog-company entrepreneur John Peterman, from 1995 until the show\'s end in 1998. In 2001 O\'Hurley financed the relaunch of The J. Peterman Company, and thus became a part-owner.\n', '

He was a contestant on the first season of the television show Dancing with the Stars which aired during the summer of 2005. O\'Hurley and his dance partner Charlotte Jørgensen made it to the final competition, which he lost to ABC soap opera star Kelly Monaco.\n', '

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