Denis Leary

Person · Open Library

Works

15

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Film & TV

Acting · Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Denis Colin Leary (born August 18, 1957) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and film producer. Leary is known for his biting, fast paced comedic style and chain smoking. He is the star and co-creator of the television show 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…

Known for

• Ice Age: Boiling Point — Diego (voice)2027
• The Pete Davidson Show — Self - Guest2026
• Oh. What. Fun. — Nick2025
• Going Dutch — Colonel Patrick Quinn2025
• No Good Deed — Mikey Morgan2024
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — George Stacy (archive footage) (uncredited)2023
• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self2022
• Patrice O'Neal: Killing Is Easy — Self2021
• Law & Order: Organized Crime — Frank Donnelly2021
• The Moodys — Sean Moody Sr.2019

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1957

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

157,493

Total plays

1,141,423

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. <a href="https://www.last.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,562x

2. Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma

   · 2005 · cited 18,740x

3. The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation.

   · 1995 · cited 14,849x

4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,999x

5. A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

   · 2010 · cited 9,938x

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Quotes

• “...and there aint a goddamn thing anybody can do about it, you know why? Because we've got the bombs! That's why, yeah! Two words: NUCLEAR FUCKIN' WEAPONS! OK?!”
• “I would never do crack. I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?”
• “I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!”
• “NyQuil, NyQuil, NyQuil! We love you, you giant fucking "Q"!”
• “I'm high as a kite and my teeth are green, merry fucking Christmas!”
• “There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.”

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Key facts

Born

Denis Colin Leary , ( 1957-08-18 ) August 18, 1957 (age 68) , Worcester, Massachusetts , U.S.

Citizenship

United States , Ireland

Alma mater

Emerson College

Occupations

Stand-up comedian actor

Labels

Comedy Central A&M

Spouse

Ann Lembeck ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1989 ) ​

Relatives

Conan O'Brien (third cousin once removed)

Years active

1987–present

Medium

Stand-up film television

Genres

Observational comedy black comedy insult comedy musical comedy

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