Tom Berenger

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: May 31, 1950

A ruggedly handsome, blue-eyed, versatile actor, often in brooding, aggressive roles, Tom Berenger came to attention as the self-effacing Tom Selleck-like TV star in Lawrence Kasdan's "The Big Chill" (1983) and also headlined that year's "Eddie and the Cruisers", a film that subsequently acquired enough of a cult following to warrant a 1989 sequel in which he did not appear. With his classically handsome features criss-crossed by a huge ugly scar, he received acclaim and an Oscar nomination for his performance as the…more

Full Biography

Credits

Actor

Cutaway
Red-Line
Body Language
Gavin St Clair
In the Company of Spies
Kevin Jefferson
Johnson County War
Cain Hammett
Arthur Hailey's Detective
Malcolm Ainslie

Producer

An Occasional Hell
Executive Producer
Rough Riders
Producer
The Avenging Angel
Co-Producer

Writer

Peacemakers
Story By

View All Credits

Career Milestones

1998
Portrayed Pete Randle in Robert Altman's "The Gingerbread Man"
1998
Starred in "One Man's Hero", playing Tom Riley, a member of the St Patrick Brigade, a group of Irish immigrants who fled to Mexico and fought for their adopted country in Mexican-American War
1997
Produced and starred as Teddy Roosevelt in TNT miniseries "Rough Riders"
1996
Played mercenary-turned-substitute teacher in "The Substitute"
1995
Co-produced and starred in TNT movie "The Avenging Angel"