The handsome, curly-haired Walsh was a regular, winning presence in film and television for nearly a decade and half before at last rocketing to stardom pushing age 40 as one of the often ethically challenged plastic surgeon partners of the adult, edgy cable drama "Nip/Tuck." Born in Los Angeles while his parents—both Foreign Service employees—were passing through on their way to the U.S. embassy in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia, Walsh grew up in East Africa, India and Indonesia until the age of 10, when the family returned to a suburban Virginia community near Washington, D.C., where he began acting