Sean Maher
Sean Maher ( born April 16, 1975 in Pleasantville, New York ) is an American actor. He gained worldwide fame primarily for his role as Simon Tam in the television series Firefly - The departure of Serenity and the movie based on Serenity - Escape to new worlds.
Life
After he finished high school, Maher began acting at New York University, which he successfully completed in 1997. After several theater roles to him in 1999, a first breakthrough came when he for the title role of the FOX television series, produced by Ryan Caulfield: Year One has been cast. Although the show was canceled after only two episodes broadcast, Maher were acting performances evaluated very positively. It was followed by other appearances in series and television movies. So Maher was for seven episodes as Adam Matthews in the series Party of Five to see. In the short-lived series The $ treet - Who offers more? he belonged as Chris McConnell to the main cast.
Joss Whedon In science fiction series Firefly - The Rise Of Serenity Maher 2002 embodied the doctor Simon Tam Although this series was discontinued prematurely, ensured very good DVD sales that Maher gained international prominence. His movie debut was in 2005 in the film Living ' til the End. In the same year he played again Simon Tam in the Firefly movie Serenity based - Escape to new worlds. In 2010 he again played alongside his Firefly co-star Jewel Staite in an episode of the science fiction series Warehouse 13
2011 Maher starred in the NBC series The Playboy Club. In the based in the 1960s series he played the gay Sean, who leads a sham marriage with the lesbian Alice. Due to the poor rate of development, the series was canceled after only three sequels to the first of the new series of the season 2011/2012.
In September 2011, the actor outed in the course of reporting on The Playboy Club as gay. Since 2002, Maher lives with his partner, both have a 2007 born daughter and a son born in 2010.