David Patrick Kelly Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Compact, feisty and slightly crazy-looking character actor David Patrick Kelly was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Margaret Elizabeth (Murphy) and Robert Corby Kelly, Sr., an accountant. He burst onto the acting scene in 1979, playing the homicidal but cowardly leader of the leather-clad gang "The Rogues" in Walter Hill's controversial New York City...
He is of Irish descent. His grandfather is from the village of Lisnashershane near Cork. His great granduncle is Father William Corby, third President of Notre Dame University and Chaplain to New York's Fighting 69th Irish Brigade at Gettysburg.
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Plays Ukelele and sings "Banks Of The Ohio" on the soundtrack to JohnTurturro's "Romance and Cigarettes".
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Daughter, Margarethe Jane Kelly, born November 26, 2008.
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Graduated Cum Laude Bachelor of Fine Arts from University Of Detroit. He was also a student of Marcel Marceau and Mira Rostova.
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He is one of seven children. His sister Susan Kelly is an author and expert in child protective services. His brother Robert C. Kelly is Vietnam Veteran and energy company executive. His brother John F. Kelly was a State Senator in Michigan for 16 years. His sister Margaret Kelly is an award-winning graphic designer. His sisters Maureen and Kathleen are grade school teachers.
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The famous "Warriors come out to play" scene was improvised by him in collaboration with Walter Hill who told him to just "come up with something" when he felt the scripted scene wasn't working. He then gathered up some empty beer bottles he found under the board walk and created the taunting dialogue based on a neighbor who used to intimidate him.
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He is a vegetarian inspired by George Bernard Shaw, Tolstoy, and the Beat Poets.
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He received an 1998 OBIE award for Sustained Excellence for his work in classic, avant garde, and new plays.
He is an avid martial artist with a Second Degree Black Belt (Nidan Rank) in Seido Karate and a practitioner of three forms of Tai Chi (Chen, Yang, Palm).
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He is a skilled mandolin and guitar player and appears accompanying himself in Spike Lee's Crooklyn (1994) singing a song he improvised for the film and on the CDs for two Broadway shows, "Twelfth Night" and "Working". He also sang and played mandolin on the 2012 Grammy Award winning soundtrack of ONCE, the Broadway musical.
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Graduated from Bishop Gallagher High School in Harper Woods, Michigan.
$10 Million
