Irish American actor, comedian, writer and director. He worked as a stand-up comic and achieved some notoriety for his acerbic take on American life. Appeared as the lead in the FX fireman hit, ‘Rescue Me,’ for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. Founded the Leary Firefighters’ Foundation charity in response to the Dec. 3, 1999 warehouse fire that killed six firefighters in his hometown of Worcester, MA. His cousin Jeremiah Lucey was among the six heroic firefighters killed. Leary also established a second division of LFFF, the Leary Firefighters’ Foundation Fund for New York’s Bravest in response to the FDNY’s losses in the Sept. 11th attacks.