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Denis Leary Bio
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Denis LearyDenis Colin Leary is an Emmy-nominated American actor and comedian known for his angry, foul-mouthed comedic style, most often based on topics such as smoking, drinking, macho men, and beautiful women. Fitting his character to his routines, he usually smokes and drinks beer during his shows.
In 2000, Leary founded the Leary Firefighters Foundation after six firefighters from his hometown were killed in a massive warehouse fire. Two of the dead were close to Leary: his cousin Jerry Lucey and his childhood friend Lieutenant Tommy Spencer. Since its creation, the foundation has distributed more than $25 million for equipment, training materials, new equipment, and new facilities to fire departments in the Worcester, Boston, and New York City areas.
Another fund run by Leary’s foundation, the Fund for New York ’s Bravest, has distributed more than $2 million to the families of the firefighters killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
As the Leary Firefighters Foundation’s president, Leary has developed close relationships with the Official Fire Department City of New York (FDNY). This resulted in him creating and starring FX’s dark comedy-drama Rescue Me in 2004. For the pilot episode, Leary wore a Leary Firefighter Foundation 9-11 Memorial t-shirt. In July 2006, he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his performance as Tommy Gavin.
Leary was born on August 18, 1957, in Worcester, Massachusetts, to Irish Catholic immigrants as the second of four children. He holds dual Irish and American citizenship.
After graduating from Stain Peter-Marian High School,Worcester, Massachusetts, he went on to study at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. At the school he founded the still thriving comedy troupe, the Emerson Comedy Workshop, before graduating in 1979. He then went on to teach comedy writing classes at the school for five years. In May 2005, he was given an honorary doctorate from the college.
In 1992 Leary released his first record of his stand-up comedy called No Cure for Cancer. In 1994 he created a sarcastic song about the American lower-middle-class male called Asshole. The video became a staple of MTV’s late-night programming but was too explicit and controversial for mainstream American radio.
In 1997 he released another record, Lock ‘N Load, and followed that up with the EP Merry F#%$in’ Christmas in 2004.In 2003, Comedy Central honored Denisin the Comedy Central Roast of Denis Leary. Roasters included Conan O Brien, Jon Stewart and Michael J Fox.
Leary has appeared in more than forty movies including Wag the Dog, Demolition Man, and The Thomas Crown Affair. He has also voiced characters in animated films such as Ice Age, as the saber-toothed tiger Diego, and A Bug’s Life, as Francis.
He owns a production company called Apostle that has produced several movies and television shows.
He narrated the Boston Red Sox official 2004 World Series film, and appeared on television during a 2006 Red Sox telecast.
Leary has been married to Ann Lembeck since 1982 and has two children with her. The couple met at Emerson College when Leary was an English class instructor. YUDDY |
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Denis Leary - Appeared with Seann William Scott in Ice Age: The Meltdown |
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Denis Leary - Appeared with Josh Peck in Ice Age: The Meltdown |
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Denis Leary - Appeared with Queen Latifah in Ice Age: The Meltdown |
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Denis Leary - Appeared with Will Arnett in Ice Age: The Meltdown |
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Denis Leary - Appeared with Jay Leno in Ice Age: The Meltdown |
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Denis Leary - Appeared with Chris Wedge in Ice Age: The Meltdown |
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Denis Leary - Appeared with Peter Ackerman in Ice Age: The Meltdown |
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Denis Leary - Appeared with Goran Visnjic in Ice Age |
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Denis Leary - Appeared with Jack Black in Ice Age |
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Denis Leary - Appeared with Cedric the Entertainer in Ice Age |
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