Sean Patrick Michael McNamara blank">Interviews: Sean McNamara - Christianity Today Movies (born May 9, 1962) is an _American film director, film producer, actor, and screenwriter.

McNamara, an Irish American Catholic, was born in Burbank, California. Once a professional musician, McNamara's love for music is apparent in all of his series and movies. Spending his early career in all areas of the entertainment industry, Sean climbed his way up to producing and directing countless hours of hit television for the Disney Channel. McNamara is best known for his work in the preteen film market, discovering and casting notable teen stars including Jessica Alba, Hilary Duff, Shia LaBeouf, Christy Carlson Romano, and Raven-Symoné. McNamara along with David Brookwell are the founders of the Brookwell McNamara Entertainment production company. McNamara has continued to produce and create shows for MTV's The N, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, and most recently, Cartoon Network.

McNamara briefly appeared as the singing cowboy in the Even Stevens musical episode "Influenza: The Musical" and as an alleged alien abductee in the episode "Close Encounters of the Beans Kind". On That's So Raven, McNamara had a cameo appearance as a Plumber in the episode Out Of Control.

McNamara shares the same name as the fictional plastic surgeon, Sean McNamara, in FX Networks's Nip/Tuck.

Sean got out of homework assignments in grade school by making movies with a super 8 camera his dad bought him at the Shannon Airport on a family vacation to Ireland. When the plane took off he began shooting his first film through a rainy window. Since then he has never stopped lensing anything he could. He went on to film school at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles California where he continued making films because it was easier than real school work. He talked various producers he worked for along the way to let him use their equipment for free to make commercials and videos to build up his directors reel. Feels his most creative filmmaking was when he was the entire crew shooting with his trusty hand held Super 8 camera. 15 feature films later he enjoys working with some stars including Jessica Alba, Shia LaBeouf, Christy Carlson Romano, Hilary Duff and Raven. He and his company Brookwell McNamara Entertainment continue to Produce and create new TV shows for"The N.".