Denis Leary

Age: 52
Height: 6' 2"

Birth Place: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Born: Aug. 18th, 1957

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Denis Leary's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Rescue Me	Tommy Gavin
The Job	Mike McNeil
The Late Late Show With Tom Snyder	Denis Leary
Paramount City (UK)	Denis Leary
Tonight with Jonathan Ross (UK)	Denis Leary

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Denis Leary was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Nora and John Leary, Irish immigrants who had grown up together. After a childhood in the 1960s, Leary went to Emerson College in Boston, where he tried his hand at acting and writing. He was a charter member of Emerson's Comedy Workshop, and taught at the college for five years after graduating. By that point he had written several pieces for magazines and had worked at stand-up comedy for a time. In 1990 he and his wife Ann flew to London to perform in the BBC's Paramount City. That weekend Ann's water broke. Their planned weekend trip became a stay of months, and Denis, with not a whole lot to do in London, wrote a one-man comedy act. He brought friends in from the States, and they wrote songs to perform on stage. Leary, with Chris Phillips and Adam Roth (I) on guitar, performed "No Cure For Cancer" at the Edinburgh International Arts Festival in Scotland. Despite some protests about the title, the show won the Critic's Award and the BBC Festival Recommendation. The next year the show was moved to America, and it was eventually taped and broadcast on Showtime (No Cure for Cancer (1992) (TV)). The show spawned a book, CD, cassette, and a videotape. It also started Leary's movie career. Since then, he has starred in several films and has had two of his own TV series.

TRIVIA:

Good friend of 'Mario Cantone' (qv) and 'Gina Gershon' (qv) at Emerson College.
Has dual U.S and Irish Citizenship.
Graduated from Emerson College
Father of 'Jack Leary' (qv).
Leary's _"Rescue Me" (2004)_ (qv) character, Tommy Gavin, was probably named for his childhood friend Tommy Spencer, a firefighter who was killed in the December 1999 warehouse fire that inspired Leary to establish the Leary Firefighters Foundation in 2000.
Cousin of 'Conan O'Brien' (qv) and 'Jane O'Brien (II)' (qv).
Holds an Irish passport.
He is one of the six godparents (all males) of Damian Charles Bing, son of 'Elizabeth Hurley (I)' (qv), and attended the child's baptism at Immaculate Conception church in Mayfair, London.