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Cast & Character Biographies
Biographies of the cast & characters from
Firefly.
------------------- Sean Maher/Simon Tam -------------------
 Sean
Maher
Born in Westchester, NY, April 16, 1975. After performing in a play at summer camp one year, he returned to school with a newfound interest in acting. Maher graduated from New York University with a BFA in Drama where he studied at the Tisch School of the Arts. He also studied theater with The Collaborative Arts Project Twenty-One, Shakespeare Scenework, the Experimental Theater Wing, the Playwright's Horizons Theater School and the Tisch School of the Arts in London. Maher's theater credits include such regional productions as "Doors," "Yerma," "Berlin, Berlin," "Over the Tavern, Part II," "Book of the Night," "Severity's Mistress" and "Into the Woods."
Not long after earning his BA, Maher got what should have been his first big break, the lead role in a Fox drama about a rookie cop. A troubled pre-production period and a rather unbelievable premise
torpedoed the series and its dismal ratings coupled with critical brickbats led to an early cancellation after only two episodes. He bounced back landing a recurring role as the final love interest for Neve Campbell's Julia Salenger on Fox's "Party of Five" in 2000.
Maher quickly rebounded from the failure of his first series effort and seemed poised to become one of the heartthrobs of the 2000-2001 TV season with a co-starring role in the Fox ensemble drama "The $treet". He was cast as a former Navy SEAL from a working-class background now making a living and enjoying the fast-line lifestyle of a Wall Street trader.
After the show's quick demise, he was cast in the ABC/Disney remake of "Brian's Song" (2001), playing cancer-stricken football player Brian Piccolo. Hoping for a more stable primetime presence,
Maher next signed on as a member of the crew of the futuristic spaceship Serenity on the sci-fi pilot "Firefly," from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" creator Joss Whedon.
In 2004, look for Sean to star as neurotic estate planner Jack Whilton in Amanda Goodwin's independant feature Living 'Til the End.
According to his bio, Maher is single and resides in both New York and Los Angeles. |
 Simon
Tam
Brought up on a wealthy core planet, Osiris, with his sister River
and family, the tam family was a wealthy one. Simon was known to be
gifted, very intelligent from a young age. The only profession it seemed
he should go into was medicine, and that's exactly what he did. He was
heading to be one of the best paid surgeons on Osiris working at the
hospital called AMI, but he gave it all up. All for the safety of his
sister, River. He had suspicions that River was in trouble in the
boarding school she was at. When Simon tried to tell his parents about
his fears, they didn't want to have any of it. Thinking that he was just
being too protective or missing his sister altogether. He successfully
deciphered coded message she sent to him and then went to try and rescue
her. He successfully got her out. She was frozen, cryogenically, and he
brought her aboard Serenity at Eavesdown Docks on Persephone, when he
first boarded the ship. It was revealed that Simon had brought her
sister aboard, and with that came the Alliance. They seemed to be after
River and Simon, which didn't please Mal at all. Though grudgingly Mal
welcomed Simon as part of the crew. After all a ship needs a medic and
that's what Simon was there to be, as long as he could keep his sister
in check.
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------------------- Sean Maher - Filmography -------------------
- The Dive From Clausen's Pier (2005) - Kilroy
- Living 'til the End (2005) - Jack Whilton
- Serenity (2005) - Dr. Simon Tam
- HRT (2001) - Special Agent Kevin Hobbes
- Brian's Song (2001) - Brian Piccolo
- The $treet (2000) - Chris McConnell
- Ryan Caulfield: Year One (1999) - Ryan Caulfield
------------------- Sean Maher - TV Appearances -------------------
- Ghost Whisperer playing Conor Donovan in episode: Mended Hearts
(episode # 1.4) 14 October 2005
- CSI: Miami playing Carson Mackie in episode: Spring Break (episode
- 1.21) 28 April 2003
- Party of Five playing Adam Matthews in episode: Great Expectations
(episode - 6.20) 18 April 2000
- Party of Five playing Adam Matthews in episode: Too Cool for School
(episode - 6.18) 4 April 2000
- Party of Five playing Adam Matthews in episode: Getting There (episode
- 6.17) 21 March 2000
- Party of Five playing Adam Matthews in episode: Blast from the Past
(episode - 6.16) 14 March 2000
- Party of Five playing Adam Matthews in episode: One for the Road
(episode - 6.14) 8 February 2000
- Party of Five playing Adam Matthews in episode: The Declaration of
Co-Dependence (episode - 6.13) 1 February 2000
- Party of Five playing Adam Matthews in episode: Bad Behavior (episode
- 6.12) 25 January 2000 |
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