Sean Patrick Cannon

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Sean Patrick Cannon
Born December 31, 1981 (1981-12-31) (age 26)
New York, New York,
United States
Years active 2006 - present

Sean Patrick Cannon (born December 31st, 1981) is an American Director and Writer based in Sherman Oaks, California, best known for the film American High School

[edit] Work as Director

Cannon was born in New York and moved to Los Angeles, California when he was 21 years old, to attend the American Film Institute. He also studied at Franklin & Marshall College, Vassar College, Rutgers University, Princeton University, and in the UK at the University of East Anglia. He separated from the American Film Institute in 2005.

In 2007 came American High School, a feature-comedy he wrote and directed, staring Laguna Beach alum Talan Torriero, Danity Kane's Aubrey O'Day, with Fifty Pills' Jillian Murray. The movie also stars Pirates of the Caribbean's Martin Klebba and American Pie's Nikki Ziering.

Cannon's films, while not sequential, are almost always based around a female protagonist, against the world, with a dysfunctional family & romantic life. Cannon also regularly uses the same actors, most notably, Jillian Murray.

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