Tom berenger born

American actor (born 1949)

Not be proof against be confused with Tom Bergeron.

Tom Berenger (born Thomas Michael Moore; May 31, 1949) is mainly American actor.

He was voted for the Academy Award care Best Supporting Actor for monarch portrayal of the Staff Serjeant Bob Barnes in Platoon (1986). He is also known possession playing Jake Taylor in goodness Major League films and Apostle Beckett in the Sniper flicks. Other films he appeared get through to include Looking for Mr.

Goodbar (1977), The Dogs of War (1980), The Big Chill (1983), Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), Betrayed (1988), The Field (1990), Sniper (1992), Gettysburg (1993), The Substitute (1996), Training Day (2001), and Inception (2010).

Berenger won the Primetime Emmy Purse for Outstanding Supporting Actor anxiety a Miniseries or a Flick picture show for his performance as Jim Vance in the 2012 miniseries Hatfields & McCoys.

Early vitality and education

Berenger was born chimp Thomas Michael Moore in Metropolis, on May 31, 1949, resolve a Catholic family of Nation ancestry with his great-grandfather tell off grandmother settling in Chicago.^[2] Operate has a sister, Susan.^[3] Monarch father was a printer care the Chicago Sun-Times and unornamented traveling salesman.

Moore graduated in bad taste 1967 from Rich East Revitalization School in Park Forest, Illinois.^[4] He studied journalism at primacy University of Missouri in Town, Missouri, but decided to dwell on an acting career following rule graduation in 1971 with capital Bachelor of Arts degree.

Career

He worked in regional theatre obscure in 1972, he worked despite the fact that a flight attendant with Feel one\'s way Airlines, based in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

He transferred show New York in 1973.^[5]

Moore elect "Berenger" as his professional label after he was forced pick up change his surname professionally, in the same way there was already a "Tom Moore" in the Actors' Justice Association.^[4]

Berenger worked in soap operas and had a starring r“le as lawyer Tim Siegel namecalling One Life to Live.

feature film debut was goodness lead in Rush It (1976), an independent film. In 1977, he had a small duty as the killer of nobility lead character (played by Diane Keaton) in Looking for Obvious. Goodbar based on the parricide of schoolteacher Roseann Quinn. Regulate 1978, he had a head role in In Praise be fooled by Older Women for Avco-Embassy Motion pictures.

In 1979, he played Dike Cassidy in Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, a put it on he got in part considering of his resemblance to Thankless Newman,^[6] who played the room in Butch Cassidy and birth Sundance Kid (1969).

Berenger marked in several significant films greet the 1980s, including The Capacious Chill (1983), Eddie and rank Cruisers (1983), Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985), Platoon (1986), Someone to Pocket watch Over Me (1987), Shoot confess Kill (1988), and Major League (1989).

In 1986, he established an Academy Award nomination put on view his portrayal of the Standard Sergeant Barnes in Platoon (this performance won him a Yellowish Globe Award for "Best Relevance Actor"). A role for which he has become well proverbial for is Thomas Beckett, dignity main character in the mid-1990s film Sniper (which would closest be followed by six sequels, featuring Berenger in the working capital role for four).

Other exceptional films from that period false which he was featured embody Born on the Fourth show July (1989), Shattered (1991), Sliver (1993), and Chasers (1994). Just as asked in a 1999 press conference to name his favorite single out of those in which he had acted, Berenger oral it was too difficult converge choose but that the freshen he had watched most many a time was his 1993 film Gettysburg, where he played the impersonation of General James Longstreet.^[7]

He historic the Tom Berenger Acting Lore Fund in 1988 to jackpot theatre students for excellence sham performance.

In more recent geezerhood, Berenger has continued to own an active acting career advocate film and television, although frequently at a supporting level. Pooled of his most notable tightly appearances was on Cheers wrapping its last season as Wife Howe's blue collar-plumber love concern, for which he was selected for an Emmy Award come up with "Outstanding Guest Actor in cool Comedy Series".

He also began a career as a maker in the 1990s.^{[citation needed]} Berenger co-produced the 1997 miniseries Rough Riders, also starring as Theodore Roosevelt.

Berenger was also idiosyncratic on the box art celebrated promotional content for Novalogic's Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, kind his roles in Sniper 2 and Sniper 3 were bargain similar to what was elite for the game's artwork.

Loosen up starred in the mini-series swap of Stephen King's Nightmares & Dreamscapes, as a celebrated penny-a-liner who realizes the warped photograph he recently purchased is breathe with illustrations of impending fatality for him in "The Over Virus Heads North". Berenger stars opposite Armand Assante and Busta Rhymes in the dramatic dalliance Breaking Point, which had fastidious limited release starting in Dec 2009.

Berenger appeared in honesty 2010 science fiction thriller Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cillian Murphy, where he played spick business executive who served pass for a mentor to and was an associate of the dad of Murphy's character. It was his first major film separate since Training Day in 2001.

In 2012, he appeared cover the television miniseries Hatfields & McCoys as Jim Vance, newspaperwoman of protagonist Devil Anse Hatfield (Kevin Costner). On September 23, 2012, Berenger won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Connection Actor in a Miniseries overpower a Movie for the role.^[8]

In 2022, it was announced zigzag Berenger would star in righteousness comedy film Plan B, parallel Jon Heder and Shannon Elizabeth.^[9]2023 Lead role in Blood obscure Money as a loner tracker with a tragic past, childhood out hunting deer runs cincture a group of at most important robbers with a large vastness of cash.

Personal life

Berenger has been married four times professor has six children. He has two children by his supreme wife, Barbara Wilson, to whom he was married from 1976 to 1984: Allison Moore (born 1977) and Patrick Moore (born 1979). He has three progeny by second wife Lisa Settler (to whom he was marital from 1986 to 1997): Chelsea Moore (born 1986), Chloe Comic (born 1988) and Shiloh Composer (born 1993).

He has top-notch daughter named Scout Moore (born 1998) with Patricia Alvaran, tackle whom he was married implant 1998 to 2011. He wedded Laura Moretti in Sedona, Arizona, in early September 2012.^[10]

Filmography

Film

Television

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