Sean McNamara
First appearance	Pilot (episode 1.01)
Statistics
Gender	Male
Age	42
Occupation	Plastic Surgeon
Spouse	Julia McNamara (away)
Children	Matt McNamara Annie McNamara Conor McNamara
Portrayed by	Dylan Walsh
Created by	Ryan Murphy

Sean McNamara is a fictional character on FX Networks' drama series Nip/Tuck, portrayed by Dylan Walsh. His character opens the show with the trademark catchphrase, "Tell me what you don't like about yourself." His partner, Christian Troy, has been his best friend since college, which is partly why they went into business together. Sean is portrayed as the more skilled, yet more troubled physician, often plagued by family distresses involving his wife (formally ex-wife before they remarried), Julia, and son, Matt. The two also have a daughter, Annie, and a newborn son named Conor. Image File history File links Seanmcnamara. ... Joely Richardson as Julia McNamara Julia McNamara is a character in the American television series Nip/Tuck. ... Matt McNamara, played by John Hensley, is a character on the television show Nip/Tuck. ... Annie McNamara is a character on the American television series Nip/Tuck. ... Dylan Walsh is an actor, best known as Dr. Sean McNamara in the FX hit television series Nip/Tuck (2003-). He co-stars alongside Julian McMahon as Dr. Christian Troy. ... Well, I am sitting here at 6:29 am at the Burlington High School writing lab with Seth Wolf. ... FX (shorter for Fox Extended Networks) is the name of a number of related subscription TV channels owned by News Corporations Fox Entertainment Group. ... Nip/Tuck is an American television drama series created by Ryan Murphy for FX Networks. ... Dylan Walsh is an actor, best known as Dr. Sean McNamara in the FX hit television series Nip/Tuck (2003-). He co-stars alongside Julian McMahon as Dr. Christian Troy. ... Christian Troy is the plastic surgeon played by Julian McMahon on FX Networks Nip/Tuck. ... Joely Richardson as Julia McNamara Julia McNamara is a character in the American television series Nip/Tuck. ... Matt McNamara, played by John Hensley, is a character on the television show Nip/Tuck. ...

Character history

Sean runs the McNamara/Troy plastic surgery clinic in Miami with his best friend, Christian Troy. He is nearing middle age and trying to come to terms with the choices he has made in his life; he believes that he went into plastic surgery to help repair the bodies of the deformed and the mutilated, but became sidetracked in performing vanity procedures. When the show begins, he is considering going into pro bono work. Also, he be a MIDGET FUCKER! Nickname: The Magic City Location in Miami-Dade County and the state of Florida. ... Pro bono is a phrase derived from Latin meaning for the good. The complete phrase is pro bono publico, for the public good. It is used to designate legal or other professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment, as a public service. ...

Sean and Julia have had many ups and downs in their marriage, but their relationship is slowly falling apart. At one point, Sean has an affair with one of his patients - Megan O'Hara, a breast cancer survivor who is separated from her husband. The affair continues until Sean confesses it to Matt and tries to break it off, but he feels obliged to Megan when her cancer returns. She decides she would rather commit suicide than go through chemotherapy, and asks Sean to help her go peacefully. Julia accompanies Sean to Megan's funeral where she realizes why he is so upset about her death. Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ... Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. ...

Sean and Julia work hard to try to salvage their marriage. At the end of the first season, Julia learns that Matt is, in fact, Christian's biological son (the result of a one-night stand just prior to Julia and Sean's wedding). Though Sean eventually forgives Christian, he finds it difficult to do so for Julia, and the two separate. Look up one-night stand in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Around this time, a masked serial killer begins terrorizing Miami, raping and mutilating fashion models. Referred to as "The Carver" by the media, he leaves deep cuts on both sides of his victims' mouths, resembling a smile. When McNamara/Troy begin performing pro bono surgery on his victims, the enraged killer targets Sean. Sean is eventually attacked by The Carver in his home, but is more fortunate than most of his victims; he receives only a single cut on his right cheek and is not raped. Quentin Costa, a surgeon from Atlanta, is called in to help Christian fix Sean's face. Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ... Supermodel Daniella Sarahyba. ... The Carver is a fictional serial rapist and murderer on the television show Nip/Tuck who disfigures his victims faces with a knife. ... Bruno Campos as Quentin Costa Quentin Costa is a character in the American television series Nip/Tuck. ... Nickname: Hotlanta, The Big Peach, The ATL, A-Town Location in Fulton County in the state of Georgia Coordinates: Country United States State Georgia Counties Fulton, Dekalb Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Area    - City 343. ...

After Christian becomes a Carver victim himself, he finds it difficult to continue working. To pick up the slack, Sean offers Quentin a limited partnership, which he accepts. Christian is initially against the partnership, but eventually agrees to work with Quentin.

During this time, Sean's life becomes even more chaotic. Julia files divorce papers and begins her own spa, and Christian is arrested in connection with the Carver rapes (and one murder). The Carver attacks while Christian is in jail, and Christian is set free. The incident greatly hurts business at McNamara/Troy, and Sean begins to question the cosmetic surgery business again. After an incident in which the doctors attempted to perform plastic surgery on an elderly woman in unfit condition for such a procedure, Sean quits the practice and joins the Witness Protection Program. He only performed one operation on a son and mother, who he then began having a relationship with. Finally choosing between leaving his old life behind and getting a new one completely, he returns to the practice and ignites a bitter rivalry with Quentin, who has since begun dating his ex-wife. This article or section may contain external links that promote sites existing primarily to sell goods or services, having objectionable amounts of advertising, or requiring payment to view the relevant content — otherwise known as spam. ... A destination spa is a business establishment which people visit for personal health, fitness, personal care treatments such as massages, facials, in a resort setting. ... In the United States, the Witness Protection Program (also known as WITSEC) is established by the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, which in turn sets out the manner in which the U.S. Attorney General may provide for the relocation and protection of a witness or potential witness of...

The rivalry ends with Quentin buying out the remainder of his contract and going to work at Julia's spa. Julia eventually fires Quentin, and discovers soon after that she is pregnant. Sean and Christian initially assume the child is Quentin's. However, Quentin, not knowing that Julia is pregnant, admits to Christian that the two never had sex. The child is now assumed to be Sean's, the result of a night the two spent together after their divorce. A pregnant woman near the end of her term Pregnancy is the carrying of one or more embryos or fetuses by female mammals, including humans, inside their bodies. ...

His relationship with Matt could be salvageable, since Matt asked him to do pro bono work on Cherry Peck, a transgendered person he beat up. Shortly after doing so, The Carver launched two more attacks, this time on a sorority house, and on Sean's rival, Quentin Costa. Sean agreed to fix Quentin after a heart-breaking speech, but he and Christian pay dearly for it, because The Carver sneaks up and drugs Sean, and then takes off the mask, revealing himself as none other than Quentin Costa. He then straps both Sean and Christian to the operating tables, plays mind games with them a bit, and then cuts off one of Sean's fingers. Christian decides to sacrifice himself, or more specifically, his left hand to save Sean. Before that happens, Quentin is shot from behind by Kit McGraw, a police officer who had a brief relationship with Christian — and is also Quentin's sister, who had been helping him commit the murders. Transgender (IPA: , from trans (Latin) and gender (English) ) is an overarching term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies that diverge from the normative gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned at birth, as well as the role traditionally held by society. ... The terms fraternity and sorority (from the Latin words frater and soror, meaning brother and sister respectively) may be used to describe many social and charitable organizations, for example the Lions Club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Rotary International, Ordo Templi Orientis or the Shriners. ... Kit McGraw is a British detective on FX Networks Nip/Tuck. ...

A microsurgeon saves Sean's finger. After giving up the property deed to his house to Julia, she decides to add his name to it, saying she'll only move back in if he's still living there. He agrees and they move in together again but their relationship is put to a strain after he discovers that his son is going to be born handicapped with ectrodactyly, commonly known as lobster claw syndrome. Futhermore, he later has sex with a potential nanny named Monica Wilder, but afterwards decided not to hire her after feeling guilty of cheating on Julia once again. Although he has no feelings for Monica and broke whatever they had off after she returned to him, she has no intentions of leaving Sean and will prove to be a threat to Sean and Julia's tenuous reunion. Ectrodactyly, commonly known as Lobster claw syndrome, is a rare congenital deformity of the hand where the middle digit is missing, and the hand is cleft where the metacarpal of the finger should be. ...

Despite not hiring Monica, she continues to involve herself in Sean's life by filling in as Conor's nanny when his regular nanny is hospitalized with food poisoning. After repeatedly telling her to leave, Monica confronts Sean at work and asks him to look at a possible infection to her nipple steming from continuously breastfeeding Conor. Sean contemplates killing Monica to prevent her from telling Julia of their affair, but is ultimately unable to and tells her to leave and that she should see a psychologist. Enraged, Monica tells Sean that she is going to tell the police that he raped her and thus destroy their marriage. Sean hurries after Monica, trying to talk some sense into her when she is killed in a freak accident when a bus hits her while crossing the road.

When it got closer to the day of Conor's hand surgery, Sean was met with several obstacles. For one thing, Julia became more hesitant in even having the surgery done and with Marlo's (Conor's nurse) encouragement, she refused to sign the consent forms. Additionally, Sean became more conscious of Conor's hands as a young boy makes fun of his condition, prompting him to insult the child's own physical appearance and punching the boy's father. Eventually, Sean settled everything with the father and realized that he was merely projecting his repressed anger from his own childhood, in which he eventually revealed to Julia that he was born with a cleft lip, which made him an object of ridicule (it should also be noted that his mother's decision to repair it secretly with Sean's college fund ultimately led to his father leaving the family). After discovering this, Julia agrees to the surgery and Sean is now more at ease with Conor's chance of living a normal life. However, Julia has recently decided to cancel the surgery and take Annie and Conor with her to New York, leaving Sean behind.

In the flashforwards of episode 'Conor McNamara, 2026' when Julia sees Sean she asks how his wife is doing indicating Sean eventually remarries. Sean, however, tells her not to ask him about his personal life giving no further details. Conor, aged 20, decides to go through with the surgery on his other hand with Matt as his primary surgeon and Sean in the operating room assisting.