Sean Callery

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Sean Callery
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Callery at the 2015 PaleyFest
Born1964 (age 5960)
OccupationComposer

Sean Callery (born 1964) is an American musician and composer, best known for composing the music for the action/drama 24 and the Marvel adaptation Jessica Jones . Other projects include the 2004 video game, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing and the television series La Femme Nikita and Homeland . Most recently he composes the music for the series Designated Survivor and Bull .

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Biography

Callery was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Bristol, Rhode Island. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, earning a degree in piano performance in 1987. In 1987, Callery moved to Los Angeles to work for New England Digital, the creators of the Synclavier synthesizer.

In 1990, he and John Farrar scored the NBC television film, A Mom for Christmas . Working as a sound designer on the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine also earned him an Emmy nomination. In 1996, Callery was hired to compose the underscore for the USA Network series, La Femme Nikita , which aired for five seasons between 1997 and 2001.

Callery next again collaborated with Surnow on the television series 24 from 2001 to 2010. For his work on that series, he received three Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition For a Series (Dramatic Underscore), in 2003, 2006 and 2010. He also won the 2007 Film & TV Music Awards for Best Score for a Dramatic Television Program and Best Television Theme for his work on the series. In addition to his work on 24 , Callery scored the music to the television series Medium from 2005 to 2010, all the episodes of Shark , and composed the music for Bones beginning with its fourth season.

In 2011 he scored the music to the miniseries The Kennedys and Kiefer Sutherland's webseries The Confession . In December, 2011, he teamed up with executive producer Howard Gordon of 24 again, for the television series Homeland . In 2012, he composed the theme music for the CBS television show Elementary . In 2014, he scored the music to the ninth season of 24, 24: Live Another Day , a special event-series, after a four-year hiatus. In 2015, he scored the music to Marvel's Jessica Jones on Netflix, for which he won the 2016 Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Music, which brings his total Emmy wins up to four.

Discography

Film

YearTitleDirectorStudio(s)Notes
1995Fun House ExpressYas Takata IMAX Short film
2000 Blowback Mark L. Lester Lionsgate Home Entertainment
2014 Small Time Joel Surnow Anchor Bay Entertainment
2021 The Marksman Robert Lorenz Open Road Films

Television

Television films

YearTitleDirectorStudio(s)Notes
1990 A Mom for Christmas George T. Miller Walt Disney Television
2005 Mayday T. J. Scott
2006 Not Like Everyone Else Tom McLoughlin
2008 24: Redemption Jon Cassar 20th Century Fox Television

Television series

YearTitleStudio(s)Notes
1997–2001 La Femme Nikita Warner Bros. Television
2000 Freedom Warner Bros. TelevisionEpisode: "Enemy" (Season 1, Episode 4)
2000–2001 Sheena Columbia TriStar Television
2001–2010 24 20th Century Fox TelevisionOne Emmy win for Outstanding Music for each season 2, 5 and 8.
2005–2011 Medium CBS Television Studios
2006 Treasure Hunters Imagine Television
2006–2008 Shark 20th Century Fox Television
2007 The 1/2 Hour News Hour 20th Century Fox Television
2008–2017 Bones 20th Century Fox Television
2010 The Whole Truth Warner Bros. Television
2011 The Confession Digital Broadcasting Group
2011 The Kennedys Shaw Media
2011–2020 Homeland Fox 21 Television Studios
2012 The Finder 20th Century Fox TelevisionEpisode: "An Orphan Walks Into a Bar" (Season 1, Episode 1)
Episode: "Bullets " (Season 1, Episode 2)
2012–2019 Elementary CBS Television Studios
2013 24 (Indian TV series)
2014 24: Live Another Day 20th Century Fox Television
2015 Backstrom 20th Century Fox Television
2015 Minority Report 20th Century Fox Television
Paramount Television
2015 Jessica Jones Marvel Television
ABC Studios
One Emmy win for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme in 2016.
2016–2018 Designated Survivor ABC Studios
2017 24: Legacy 20th Century Fox TelevisionSpin-off of 24
2017 Inhumans Marvel Television
ABC Studios
2018–2022 Bull CBS Television Studios
2020 Next 20th Century Fox Television
2022 Halo Paramount+
2022–2023 Walker: Independence CBS Television Studios

Web

YearTitleStudio(s)Notes
2007The Rookie

Video games

YearTitleStudio(s)Notes
2003 James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing EA Redwood Shores Composed with Jeff Tymoschuk
2006 24: The Game SCE Cambridge Studio

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