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Sean Callery | |
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 Callery at the 2015PaleyFest | |
| Born | 1964 (age 60–61) Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation | Composer |
Sean Callery (born 1964) is an American musician and composer, best known for composing the music for the action/drama24 and theMarvel adaptationJessica Jones. Other projects include the 2004 video game,James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing and the television seriesLa Femme Nikita andHomeland. Most recently he composes the music for the seriesDesignated Survivor andBull.
Callery was born inHartford, Connecticut and raised inBristol, Rhode Island. He studied at theNew England Conservatory of Music, earning a degree in piano performance in 1987. In 1987, Callery moved toLos Angeles to work forNew England Digital, the creators of theSynclavier synthesizer.
In 1990, he andJohn Farrar scored theNBCtelevision film,A Mom for Christmas. Working as asound designer on the seriesStar Trek: Deep Space Nine also earned him anEmmy nomination. In 1996, Callery was hired to compose the underscore for theUSA Network series,La Femme Nikita, which aired for five seasons between 1997 and 2001.
Callery next again collaborated with Surnow on the television series24 from 2001 to 2010. For his work on that series, he received threeEmmy 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 on24, Callery scored the music to the television seriesMedium from 2005 to 2010, all the episodes ofShark, and composed the music forBones beginning with its fourth season.
In 2011 he scored the music to the miniseriesThe Kennedys andKiefer Sutherland's webseriesThe Confession. In December, 2011, he teamed up with executive producerHoward Gordon of24 again, for the television seriesHomeland. In 2012, he composed thetheme music for theCBS television showElementary. In 2014, he scored the music to the ninth season of24,24: Live Another Day, a special event-series, after a four-year hiatus. In 2015, he scored the music to Marvel'sJessica Jones onNetflix, for which he won the 2016 Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Music, which brings his total Emmy wins up to four.
| Year | Title | Director | Studio(s) | Notes |
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| 1995 | Fun House Express | Yas 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 |
| Year | Title | Director | Studio(s) | Notes |
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| 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 | — |
| Year | Title | Studio(s) | Notes |
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| 1997–2001 | La Femme Nikita | Warner Bros. Television | — |
| 2000 | Freedom | Warner Bros. Television | Episode: "Enemy" (Season 1, Episode 4) |
| 2000–2001 | Sheena | Columbia TriStar Television | — |
| 2001–2010 | 24 | 20th Century Fox Television | One 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 Television | Episode: "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 Television | Spin-off of24 |
| 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 | — |
| Year | Title | Studio(s) | Notes |
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| 2007 | The Rookie | — | — |
| Year | Title | Studio(s) | Notes |
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| 2003 | James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing | EA Redwood Shores | Composed withJeff Tymoschuk |
| 2006 | 24: The Game | SCE Cambridge Studio | — |
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