Michael Colleary
American film producer
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Michael Colleary is an American film producer, screenwriter and television writer. His writing credits include Face/Off,[1] Firehouse Dog, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the story for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and the Cartoon Network live-action series Unnatural History.
Michael Colleary | |
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| Occupations | Film producer, screenwriter, television writer |
| Years active | 1988–present |
He is a frequent collaborator with Mike Werb, whom Colleary met at UCLA after Werb had sold his car to cover tuition and Colleary had given him lifts in his car.[2] Together they won a Saturn Award for their original screenplay of Face/Off.[3]
Colleary is the writer-showrunner of the independently financed, action-adventure TV series, Professionals, starring Tom Welling, Brendan Fraser, and Elena Anaya, which currently airs on the CW network.
Colleary was born and raised in Montclair, New Jersey.[4] The son of comedy writer Robert M. Colleary, he graduated in 1978 from Montclair High School.[2] He attended Temple University and studied journalism there, before heading west to do graduate work in screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.[2]
He is married to screenwriter Shannon Bradley-Colleary, whose film To the Stars premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019.
