Tim Kelleher is an American writer, actor and director.

Born in The Bronx

The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also known as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated...

, Tim grew up across the five boroughs of New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, and played football with an elite corps of young men at perennial powerhouse Msgr. Farrell on Staten Island

Staten Island

Staten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...

. After college and a formative stint in a Jesuit novitiate, he returned to New York where he trained as a stage actor under the tutelage of Robert Patterson. With friends, he founded The Colony Theatre and served as its Artistic Director, staging the work of new playwrights as well as select classics. His acting career has included guest appearances on numerous TV shows, and a turn as the resident villain on NBC's Sci-Fi phenom, Dark Skies

Dark Skies

Dark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory-based sci-fi television series that aired from the 1996 to 1997 season for 18 episodes, plus a two-hour pilot episode. The success of The X-Files on Fox proved there was an audience for science fiction shows, resulting in NBC commissioning this...

. His more than two dozen film credits include Malcolm X

Malcolm X (film)

Malcolm X is a 1992 biographical motion picture about the Muslim-American figure Malcolm X . It was co-written, co-produced, and directed by Spike Lee. It stars Denzel Washington as the titular character. It co-stars Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman, Jr., and Delroy Lindo...

, Independence Day

Independence Day (film)

Independence Day is a 1996 science fiction film about an alien invasion of Earth, focusing on a disparate group of individuals and families as they converge in the Nevada desert and, along with the rest of the human population, participate in a last-chance counterattack on July 4 – the same...

, The Negotiator

The Negotiator

The Negotiator is a 1998 drama-thriller film directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey. It takes place in Chicago and was released on July 29, 1998. The original music score was composed by Graeme Revell.-Plot:...

, Thirteen Days

Thirteen Days (film)

Thirteen Days is a 2000 docudrama directed by Roger Donaldson about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the US political leadership. Kevin Costner stars, with Bruce Greenwood featured as John F. Kennedy....

, Flash of Genius

Flash of Genius (film)

Flash of Genius is a 2008 American biographical film directed by Marc Abraham. The screenplay by Philip Railsback, based on a 1993 New Yorker article by John Seabrook, focuses on Robert Kearns and his legal battle against the Ford Motor Company when they developed an intermittent windshield wiper...

, Seven Pounds

Seven Pounds

Seven Pounds is a 2008 film, directed by Gabriele Muccino. Will Smith stars as a man who sets out to change the lives of seven people. Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, and Barry Pepper star. The film was released in theaters in the United States and Canada on December 19, 2008, by Columbia Pictures...

, and, most recently, Inception

Inception

Inception: The Subconscious Jams 1994-1995 is a compilation of unreleased tracks by the band Download.-Track listing:# "Primitive Tekno Jam" – 3:23# "Bee Sting Sickness" – 8:04# "Weed Acid Techno" – 8:19...

.

He directed the short-form film, The Skell, starring John Costelloe

John Costelloe

John Costelloe was an Irish politician who served for two years a member of the 10th Seanad Éireann.He was elected to the Seanad by the Industrial and Commercial Panel at a by-election on 28th November 1963 following the death of Fianna Fáil senator Daniel Moloney.No information appears to be...

, David Morse

David Morse (actor)

David Bowditch Morse is an American stage, television, and film actor. He first came to national attention as Dr. Jack Morrison in the medical drama St. Elsewhere from 1982 to 1988...

, Paul Giamatti

Paul Giamatti

Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti is an American actor. Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon, before earning lead roles in several projects in the...

, Nestor Serrano

Nestor Serrano

Nestor Serrano is an American film and television actor. He often portrays authority figures on both sides of the law.Serrano began his acting career in off-Broadway plays in the late 1970s. His first film was the 1986 Tom Hanks comedy The Money Pit...

, Dianne Ramirez, and Joe Gannascoli. In 2008, he wrote and directed Wake-Up Call, a pilot, starring Nestor Serrano

Nestor Serrano

Nestor Serrano is an American film and television actor. He often portrays authority figures on both sides of the law.Serrano began his acting career in off-Broadway plays in the late 1970s. His first film was the 1986 Tom Hanks comedy The Money Pit...

, Casey Siemaszko

Casey Siemaszko

Casey Siemaszko is an American actor and the brother of actress Nina Siemaszko. He was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 17, 1961 to a Polish American father, a fighter in the Polish Underground who survived the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and an English mother.Siemaszko's best known film...

, Adam Ferrara

Adam Ferrara

Adam Ferrara is an American actor and comedian who is currently playing the role of Chief "Needles" Nelson on the critically acclaimed FX series Rescue Me and is also a co-host on the U.S. version of Top Gear...

, Peggy Scott, Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer

Amy Beth Schumer is an American stand-up comedian. She placed fourth on NBC's Last Comic Standing Season 5, and she placed second on Comedy Central's Reality Bites Back.-Life and career:...

 and D.L. Anderson.

In 2008 Tim married Canadian novelist, Billie Livingston

Billie Livingston

Billie Livingston is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Livingston grew up in Toronto and Vancouver, British Columbia...

. In 2011 Tim wrote and directed, "The Creed: What Christians Profess, and Why it Ought to Matter," a documentary film for First Things

First Things

First Things is an ecumenical journal focused on creating a "religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society". The journal is inter-denominational and inter-religious, representing a broad intellectual tradition of Christian and Jewish critique of contemporary society...

 magazine featuring scholars and thinkers including Timothy Shriver, Luke Timothy Johnson

Luke Timothy Johnson

Luke Timothy Johnson is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Candler School of Theology and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University...

, John Behr

John Behr

John Behr is a contemporary Eastern Orthodox priest and theologian, and Dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, where he teaches Patristics . He was ordained to the diaconate on September 8, 2001 and the priesthood on September 14, 2001...

, Stephen Barr

Stephen Barr

Stephen M. Barr is a professor of Particle Physics at the Bartol Research Institute and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware. His research interests include Elementary Particle Theory, Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theories, and Cosmology. He has authored over 120...

 and Frederica Mathewes-Green

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Frederica Mathewes-Green is an Eastern Orthodox author and speaker on the subjects of religion and abortion.Mathewes-Green holds a BA in English from the University of South Carolina and an MA in Theological Studies from Virginia Theological Seminary . Her husband, Fr...

. He also serves as New Media Editor for First Things

First Things

First Things is an ecumenical journal focused on creating a "religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society". The journal is inter-denominational and inter-religious, representing a broad intellectual tradition of Christian and Jewish critique of contemporary society...

 where he writes on topics related to religion, politics and culture.

External links

• The Tim Kelleher Homepage

• First Things Magazine
• Bear Trap, article, First Things
  First Things
  First Things is an ecumenical journal focused on creating a "religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society". The journal is inter-denominational and inter-religious, representing a broad intellectual tradition of Christian and Jewish critique of contemporary society...
  
  
• Putinism and the Ukrainian Catholic Church, article, First Things
  First Things
  First Things is an ecumenical journal focused on creating a "religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society". The journal is inter-denominational and inter-religious, representing a broad intellectual tradition of Christian and Jewish critique of contemporary society...