Sean Callery
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.
Sean Callery

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- Name
- Sean Callery
- Born
- 1964
- Birthplace
- Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
- Occupation
- Composer
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- New England Conservatory
- Languages
- English
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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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Sean Callery (born 1964) is a composer and musician, of American nationality. The composer was born in Hartford. Sean Callery was educated at New England Conservatory. Languages used include English.
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• Name — Sean Callery • Born — 1964 • Birthplace — Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. • Occupation — Composer
Biography
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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.
Television series
Television series
• Year — Title — Studio(s) — Notes • 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 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 • 2026 — R.J. Decker — 20th Television
Web
Web
• Year — Title — Studio(s) — Notes • 2007 — The Rookie
Video games
Video games
• Year — Title — Studio(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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Film
Film
• Year — Title — Director — Studio(s) — Notes • 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
Television films
Television films
• Year — Title — Director — Studio(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
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