Denis Leary (เดนิส เลียรี่)
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วันเกิด : | 18 สิงหาคม 2500 |
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ที่เกิด : | Worcester, Massachusetts United States |
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Education Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, acting, 1979
Blond performer of stage and film, first recognized for his rapid-fire, acid-tongued promos for MTV, Denis Leary began performing his distinctive brand of stand-up comedy while attending college in his native Boston. Preoccupied with smoking, red meat, death and rock 'n' roll, he took his routine around the country and eventually to London where (due to the premature birth of his son) he and his wife lived for the better part of a year. While there he wrote "No Cure For Cancer", a wildly popular one-man show, expounding on such issues as smoking ("I'm going to get a tracheotomy so I can smoke two cigarettes at the same time") to pop stars ("Sting--he wants to save the seals, he wants to save the rain forests . . . how about saving your hair, OK, pal?"). The show received favorable reviews and enjoyed a sold-out run on the West End and a four-month run off-Broadway. The success of "Cancer" brought Leary to the attention of MTV who hired him for promotional spots that usually featured him pacing back and forth in a squalid urban setting, smoking furiously, and ranting about everything from Cindy Crawford to the hypocrisy of "political correctness".
Leary's MTV work led to similarly styled product endorsements for Nike, minus the cigarettes. and a feature debut (small bit) in the comedy "Strictly Business" (1992). The following year found him appearing in nearly half a dozen films with parts ranging from comic cameos ("National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1") to evil heavies ("Judgment Night") to regular guy roles ("The Sandlot"). Leary received his first starring role in Ted Demme's "The Ref" (1994), an uneven black comedy, in which he played a cat-burglar trapped in the house of a dysfunctional family. Misses like "Operation Dumbo Drop" (1995) preceded his foray into screenwriting, a collaboration on the story for "Two If By Sea" (1996, in which he also starred opposite Sandra Bullock) with his wife Ann Lembeck and Mike Armstrong (who also helped write the screenplay). The film bombed because the director was a moron (according to Leary), but its failure could not slow Leary's momentum, and he went on to act in five features in 1997: "The Matchmaker" (opposite Janeane Garofalo), "Love Walked In", "Wag the Dog" (with Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman), "Suicide Kings" (starring Christopher Walken) and "The Real Blonde".
The juggernaut barreled on as he returned to the land of the one-man rant for HBO's "Denis Leary: Lock 'n' Load" (1997, directed by Demme), where no one was safe from his acid wit, least of all, O.J. Simpson. ("I hope your kids pull a Menendez on you, O.J. And they'll be forgiven, 10 times over.") He followed with roles as a yuppie dad opposite Dana Delany in the family comedy "Wide Awake" and as a ruthless toy tycoon in Joe Dante's "Small Soldiers", in addition to providing the voice for Francis in Disney/Pixar's "A Bug's Life" (all 1998). Leary reteamed with director Demme and screenwriting partner Armstrong for "Monument Ave" (also 1998), a project he co-produced about the Charlestown, MA "code of silence", which premiered at that year's Sundance Film Festival under the title "Snitch". He continued to land important supporting roles, including one in the remake of "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1999), with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo, and in the indie "Jesus' Son" (1999). Leary made his directing debut with the "Lust" segment (written by his wife) of Showtime's "National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins" (1996), earning a CableACE Award for his effort.
After appearing in a string of less-than-impressive feature films--including "Do Not Disturb" (1999), "Company Man" (2000), "Sand" (2000) and "Double Whammy" (2001)--the actor returned to television as co-creater (with Peter Tolan), writer, producer and star of the half-hour ABC police dramedy "The Job" (2001-2002), playing the believably flawed detective Mike McNeil, surrounded equally human co-workers. Despite critical raves, the series was mishandled by the network and ultimately cancelled when it became clear the executives did not know what to do with the project. Somewhat disgruntled by the experience, Leary returned to feature films with roles in projects such as the 2002 crime drama "Bad Boy" (opposite his close friend and rumored paramour Elizabeth Hurley) and as a patient of dentist Campbell Scott who becomes the voice of his paranoia and insecurities in the well-recieved indie "The Secret Lives of Dentists" (2002), as well as the voice of the sabertoothed tiger Deigo in the hit CGI-animated film "Ice Age" (2002).
However Leary found himself drawn back to television when, while coming to grips with the death of his fiefighter cousin, he was compelled to re-team with Tolan to create a new series for the burgeoning f/x cable network, by then home to some of the edgiest quality dramas on TV. Leary and Tolan re-tooled he basic elements of "The Job" into a new hour-long drama set in a firehouse, "Rescue Me" (2004 - ) in which Leary played the sardonic, world-weary, soon-to-be-divorced firefighter Tommy Gavin who is plagued by alcoholism and visions of his late cousin serving as his conscience. The show debuted to nearly unanimous critical praise and, filled with moments of both intense drama and witty comedy, quickly found the devoted wide audience that "The Job" had lacked. |
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