Denis Leary

Denis Colin Leary is an American actor, writer, producer, singer, and comedian. He was the star and cocreator of Rescue Me, which ended its seventh and final season on September 7, 2011. Leary has starred in many motion pictures, most recently as Captain George Stacy in Marc Webbs 2012 film The Amazing SpiderMan, Cleveland Browns Head Coach Vince Penn in Ivan Reitmans 2014 film Draft Day, and the voice of Diego in the Ice Age franchise. As of 2015, he wrote and has been starring in the comedy series SexampDrugsampRockampRoll, which premiered on FX on July 16, 2015.

Denis Colin Leary was born on August 18, 1957 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Roman Catholic immigrant parents from County Kerry, Ireland. His mother, Nora , was a maid, and his father, John Leary, was an auto mechanic. Being the son of Irish parents, Leary is a citizen of both the United States and Ireland. Through marriage, Leary is a third cousin of talk show host Conan OBrien. He attended Saint Peters High School , in Worcester and graduated from Emerson College, in Boston. At Emerson, he met fellow comic Mario Cantone, whom to this day Leary considers his closest friend. At the school, he founded the Emerson Comedy Workshop, a troupe that continues oncampus today. After graduating with the Emerson Class of 1981, he took a job at the school teaching comedy writing classes and maintained the job for five years. He received an honorary doctorate and spoke briefly at his alma maters undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 16, 2005 he is thus credited as Dr. Denis Leary on t

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