Denis Leary’s biography clearly shows that he is a versatile and socially responsible person who is not afraid to notice in a humorous form all the imperfections of modern society. Let's talk about the life and work of this wonderful cinema figure and musician, whose name has been publicly known for all for two decades.
general information
Denis Leary is an American actor and producer. He also puts on feature films, writes scripts and music. The track record of a native of Worcester has 146 cinematic works. He began his career in cinema with a small role in the series "Biography". In 2016, he portrayed himself in the comedy film "Looking at the Night."
Films and genres
Denis Leary worked on such popular projects as "Disconnected", "Slaughter Service", "Cheating". In the rating animation project "Ice Age" voiced the hero Diego.
Films with Denis Leary belong to the following movie genres:
- Biography: Cocaine (producer).
- Military: "Operation Elephant."
- Documentary: "Fire" (producer), "Disabled".
- History: "Recount."
- Short film: "Skrat and continental break 2", "Space Skratostropha".
- Melodrama: "Only business", "Bad guy", "Stolen hearts (screenwriter)," Svodnik "," Real blonde ".
- Cartoon: "Ice Age", "Fairyland", "The Adventures of Flick" (all - voice acting).
- Adventure: The New Spider-Man, Soldiers.
- Action: "Destroyer", "Shooter", "Doomsday."
- Detective: “Who is this type?”, “Kings of Suicide”, “Real Crime”.
- Drama: “Boat”, “Final”, “Neon Bible”, “Wrong”, “Beware, hostage!”, “Awakening”, “Trickery”, “According to the wolf laws”, “Save me”.
- Comedy: Maron, Grab and Run, Conspiracy Against America, Talking Dolls.
- Crime: "Thomas Crown Scam", "Fort Pit".
- Music: Conan, Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll.
In the 1997 documentary comedy film Denis Leary: From the Screw, a film actor acted as an actor and screenwriter. The 65-minute film is a humorous collection that tells ironically about modern America. The protagonist of this tape puts itself in the place of the president of the United States, whom, he claims, his own children want to kill.
Biography
Denis Leary was born on August 18, 1957 in the American city of Worcester, located in Massachusetts, in an Irish family. The actor’s mother worked as a maid, his father worked in a car repair shop. After graduating from a local high school, Denis went to Boston and went to Emerson College. Here he made friends with the famous comedian Mario Cantone, actress Gina Gershin and comedian Stephen Wright. It was in Boston that Denis Leary took his first steps towards big roles.
The actor is married to Anne Lebmek, who today is known as the author of An Innocent, a Broad. The family has two children.
About person
Here are the facts about Denis Leary, which will be interesting to those who follow his work.
- As a child, he played hockey and dreamed about what would become a real star in this sport. Dreams were not destined to be realized in life, because Denis was expelled from the hockey team due to poor performance.
- Denis Leary is the creator of a charity that helps firefighters and those affected by the fire. The film maker decided to found this organization after six firefighters, including his brother, were killed in one of the strong fires in Worcester in December 1996.
- The actor played in three projects directed by Ted Demme.
- The song Achole Denis Leary showed what stereotypes of American humor and life are present today.
- Denis is the godfather to the son of actress Elizabeth Hurley.
- In 2004, the actor was first selected as a Golden Globe Award nominee for his work in the movie Save Me.
- Denis Leary was offered to play the character of actor Mark Wahlberg in the project "Departed". However, he had to refuse this offer due to filming in the movie "Save me." It is worth saying that the play of Mark Wahlberg in the film "Departed" delighted Leary.
- The actor is a citizen of two countries - the United States and Ireland.
- On the air of one of the television shows, Denis Leary admitted that he has a phobia: fear of bats.
- He claims that he is often mistaken for his colleague Willem Dafoe.
- The hero of this article loves the work of the Rolling Stones band and singer David Bowie. (By the way, it would be interesting to know the opinion of the actor about the composition of his namesake Denis Lyric "Unforgettable Summer", which is very popular in Russia today).
- The actor bought his daughter a dog of the Chihuahua breed, which he now does not part with, because, in his words, "he just fell in love with her."
In conclusion, we note that Denis Leary and his family currently live on a farm in Connecticut, which contains several horses.