Name	Sean Maher
Height	5' 10"
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	16 April 1975
Place of Birth	Pleasantville, New York, USA
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Stung by the acting bug while appearing in a play at summer camp, Sean Maher continued his desire to be an actor by involving in stage productions of Federico García Lorca's tragic play "Yerma" and the musical "Into the Woods." An NYU graduate, Maher has also studied theater with the Tisch School of the Arts in London, The Collaborative Arts Project Twenty-One, Shakespeare Scenework, the Experimental Theater Wing, and the Playwright's Horizons Theater School. His theater credits include regional productions of "Doors," "Berlin, Berlin," "Over the Tavern, Part II," "Book of the Night," and "Severity's Mistress."

In 1999, two years after graduating from NYU, Maher landed his first big break as star of Fox's primetime series "Ryan Caulfield: Year One," in which he play the title role of the rookie cop. Unfortunately, the show was canceled after only two episodes aired. Six other episodes were produced but never broadcast.

Entering the new millennium, he scored the recurring role of Adam Matthews, a love interest for Neve Campbell's Julia Salenger, on Fox's dramatic television series "Party of Five." He also returned to regular series work as co-star of Fox's ensemble drama about a small brokerage house located in New York City Wall Street featuring Christian Campbell (Neve's brother), "The $treet" (2000-2001), in which Maher played slick trader Chris McConnell.

Afterward, Maher was cast as Brian Piccolo, a football player stricken with terminal cancer, in the ABC remake of "Brian's Song" (2001), opposite Mekhi Phifer who portrayed his friend, Chicago Bears running back teammate and Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers. That same year, he also appeared in CBS unsold drama pilot "HRT" (aka “Hostage Rescue Team”).

Maher struck the big time again in 2002 when he was cast as Simon Tam, Serenity's resident doctor, on Fox's short-lived cult-hit science fiction/drama television series "Firefly." Premiered on September 20, 2002, the show was canceled in August 2003 after only eleven of the fourteen produced episodes were aired. Despite the series' relatively short life span, it won an Emmy in 2003 for "Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series" and found success in its DVD release.

Meanwhile, Maher was spotted as a guest in an April 2003 episode of CBS' forensic drama series "CSI: Miami."

2005 saw Maher reprised his “Firefly” role in its feature-length adaptation, “Serenity,” written and directed by the series' creator, Joss Whedon. He commented, “I think time was a big thing. We had a lot more time to tell a story then when we were shooting the series. But to me it felt so similar to the show, everything just felt a little more spectacular, it felt a little grander. There was a wonderful feeling of redemption to come back with these people. It was a great reunion, so it was a wonderful energy.”

During that same year, Maher also starred as a chief resident in a hospital Fox's failed TV series "Halley's Comet" and Lifetime original movie "The Dive from Clausen's Pier," an adaptation of Ann Packer novel in which he co-starred opposite Michelle Trachtenberg, playing her new love interest. He also guest starred as a ghost in an episode of CBS television drama-fantasy-thriller series starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, "Ghost Whisperer," and played the lead role of Jack, a buttoned-down estate planner who lives out the year as a hopeless agoraphobic after being told by a psychic about his imminent death on his next birthday, in writer/director Amanda Goodwin's independent drama/comedy film, "Living 'til the End."

In 2006, TV viewers could catch him as Ted Moore, the boyfriend of a gay wedding planner (played by John Stamos), in A&E's Movie of the Week "Wedding Wars," which also stars Eric Dane and Bonnie Somerville.