Andrew McCarthy is an American actor. His mother worked for a newspaper. Andrew McCarthy attended the Pingry School. In 1999, he married his college sweetheart Carol Schneider.

In 2002, she gave birth to their son, Sam, but three years later the couple divorced. Andrew current partner is Dolores Rice.

In 2004, McCarthy announced that he had once had a serious alcohol problem. In 1992, Andrew McCarthy entered a detoxification program and has been sober since. He had been in the church on assignment for a magazine.