| Full Name | Tom Berenger |
| Net Worth | $16 Million |
| Date Of Birth | May 31, 1949 |
| Place Of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Height | 1.8 m |
| Occupation | Actor, producer, television writer |
| Profession | Screenwriter, Film producer, Actor |
| Work Position | Awards for Tom Berenger |
| Education | University of Missouri, Rich East High School |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Laura Moretti (m. 2012), Patricia Alvaran (m. 1998–2011), Lisa Berenger (m. 1986–1997), Barbara Wilson (m. 1976–1984) |
| Children | Chelsea Berenger, Chloe Berenger, Scout Moore, Allison Moore, Shiloh Moore, Patrick Moore |
| Siblings | Susan Moore |
| Nicknames | Tom Berenger, Berenger, Tom |
| Facebook | http://www.facebook.com/tomberengeronline |
| IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0000297 |
| Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series |
| Movies | Platoon, Inception, The Big Chill, The Substitute, Last of the Dogmen, Gettysburg, Shoot to Kill, Someone to Watch Over Me, Training Day, Sniper 2, Sniper: Legacy, Sniper, Shattered, Born on the Fourth of July, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Sniper 3, Major League, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Rustl... |
| TV Shows | Hatfields & McCoys, For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots, October Road, Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, Into the West, Peacemakers |
| Star Sign | Gemini |
| # | Quote |
|---|
| 1 | Your body really changes a lot in your 50s. You start feeling old injuries and things start coming back ... so you better get it together then. |
| 2 | [on Charlie Sheen] I've always liked him, and I always worry about him like his parents do. He was always a good listener, which is probably why he is a real good actor. |
| 3 | [in 2002] Since the '70s I've seen myself as a poet. Sometimes I express that poetry through acting, sometimes through cooking, and sometimes just having a good chat, you know, one of them chats you have when you're stoned and the hour is getting late. I don't know what's gonna come my way, but I think Berenger's gonna be big these next couple years. |
| 4 | Even my agents say, 'We don't know what this business is anymore.' These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television. And every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, Lost in Space (1998)? - a bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and almost felt like I was on an acid trip. Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it. |
| 5 | [in 1975] I first started thinking about being an actor when I was in college at the University of Missouri. I auditioned for a television play, and the director, who has some professional New York credits, encouraged me to pursue acting. In college I had a double major--drama and film editing. I worked with 16 millimeter film upon graduating, and from Kansas City I went on to Dallas. All of this time I suppose I had an unrealized commitment to acting. But then, I guess I ran away from acting. I was afraid of the business--I still am. |
| 6 | [on playing bad guys] I enjoy playing them. I find something human in them, with the exception of Looking for Mr. Goodbar. It was such a slimy character with no redeeming qualities. To me it was like playing Charles Manson. I had nightmares after I finished shooting it. I felt dirty. Bad guys are interesting, even if you don't like them. |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | Tom's first play was in high school was performed in the Spanish language for an advanced Spanish class. Being an extremely shy guy, he was forced to be in it by his teacher. |
| 2 | Tom is an avid reader. |
| 3 | As of 2014, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Big Chill (1983), Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Inception (2010). Of those, Platoon (1986) won in the category. |
| 4 | Berenger lent his likeness for Frank Jaeger, in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1990). |
| 5 | Berenger's earlier career before he became an actor was as a flight attendant for the defunct Eastern Air Lines. |
| 6 | Prior to acting, he was also a bellman at the former Alameda Plaza Hotel (now the Inter-Continental Hotel) in the Country Club Plaza section of Kansas City, Missouri. |
| 7 | He studied under Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof at HB Studio while working in off-Broadway productions. |
| 8 | Started "The Tom Berenger Acting Scholarship Fund" This was established in 1988 by him to award Theatre students for excellence in performance. |
| 9 | He picked "Berenger" as his professional name, after a school friend, because there was already a "Tom Moore" in the Actors' Equity Association. |
| 10 | The role that seems the nearest to his heart is that of Lt. General James Longstreet, whom he portrayed in Gettysburg (1993). |
| 11 | Tom's great interest in Civil War history has led him to collect on and research the Civil War era in his personal life as well. |
| 12 | Was the second ill-fated Timmy Siegal on 'One Life To Live'. |
| 13 | Tom speaks Spanish and Italian. |
| 14 | Turned down the part of Det. Sonny Crockett on Miami Vice (1984). The studio was hoping to land a big star, and also approached Nick Nolte and Jeff Bridges. |
| 15 | Admitted that he hated making Sliver (1993), as it went through endless reshoots and script changes. |
| 16 | Studied acting in New York at the Herbert Berghof Studios. |
| 17 | Lives in Beaufort, South Carolina when not working on films. |
| 18 | Lived in Puerto Rico for several months in his 20s. |
| 19 | Tom is a history buff. |
| 20 | His father was a traveling salesman. |
| 21 | He was offered his role in Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006) and had 24 hours to decide if he wanted. He agreed without even getting a chance to read the script. He read it for the first time on the flight to Australia for the filming. |
| 22 | Graduated from the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism. |
| 23 | Considers Flesh & Blood (1979) as one of his best films. |
| 24 | Father of Chelsea Berenger and Chloe Berenger. |
| 25 | Earned the highest rating (3 stars) from "The Bare Facts" -- a printed guide to on-screen nudity -- for eligible scenes in In Praise of Older Women (1978) and At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991).". |
| 26 | He has six children, Allison, Patrick, Chelsea, Chloe, Shiloh and Scout, and also a step-daughter, Julia, with his wife Laura Moretti. |
| 27 | Listed as a "Promising New Actor of 1977" in vol. 29 of John Willis' Screen World. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Wunderland | 2017 | post-production | Major McCulley |
| American Dresser | 2017 | post-production | John Moore |
| Cops and Robbers | 2017/II | completed | |
| Gone Are the Days | 2017 | post-production | Will |
| Training Day | 2017 | TV Series | Stan Gursky |
| Major Crimes | 2013-2015 | TV Series | Jackson Raydor |
| Impact Earth | 2015 | | Herbert Sloan |
| Reach Me | 2014 | | Teddy |
| Sniper: Legacy | 2014 | Video | Thomas Beckett |
| Lonesome Dove Church | 2014 | | John Shepherd |
| Doc Holliday's Revenge | 2014/II | | Judge Wells |
| Hawaii Five-0 | 2014 | TV Series | Eddie Williams |
| Bad Country | 2014 | | Lutin Adams |
| Grounded | 2013 | | Jerry |
| Hatfields & McCoys | 2012 | TV Mini-Series | Jim Vance |
| Brake | 2012/I | | Ben Reynolds |
| War Flowers | 2012 | | Gen. McIntire |
| Bucksville | 2011 | | The Patron of Justice |
| XIII: The Series | 2011 | TV Series | Rainer Gerhardt |
| Last Will | 2011 | | Frank Emery |
| Faster | 2010 | | Warden |
| Inception | 2010 | | Browning |
| Sinners and Saints | 2010 | | Captain Trahan |
| Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball | 2010 | Video | Walter Weed |
| Breaking Point | 2009 | | Steven Luisi |
| Silent Venom | 2009 | Video | Admiral Bradley Wallace |
| The Making of 'Charlie Valentine': Behind the Scenes with Michael Weatherly | 2009 | Short | Becker |
| The Hitmen Diaries: Charlie Valentine | 2009 | | Becker |
| Amber Alert: Terror on the Highway | 2008 | TV Movie | Larsan |
| Stiletto | 2008/II | | Virgil Vadalos |
| October Road | 2007-2008 | TV Series | The Commander / Mr. Garrett |
| The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey | 2007 | | Jonathan Toomey |
| America's Iliad: The Siege of Charleston | 2007 | TV Movie | Narrator (voice) |
| Amy Coyne | 2006 | TV Movie | Mac |
| Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King | 2006 | TV Mini-Series | Richard Kinnell |
| Into the West | 2005 | TV Mini-Series | Colonel J. Chivington |
| Detective | 2005 | TV Movie | Sgt. Malcolm Ainslie |
| Sniper 3 | 2004 | Video | Thomas Beckett |
| Capital City | 2004 | TV Movie | Sen. Foxworthy |
| Peacemakers | 2003 | TV Series | Marshal Jared Stone |
| Third Watch | 2003 | TV Series | Aaron Noble |
| Sniper 2 | 2002 | Video | Thomas Beckett |
| The Junction Boys | 2002 | TV Movie | Paul 'Bear' Bryant |
| Johnson County War | 2002 | TV Movie | Cain Hammett |
| Eye See You | 2002 | | Hank |
| Watchtower | 2001 | | Art Stoner |
| Ally McBeal | 2001 | TV Series | Harrison Wyatt |
| True Blue | 2001 | | Rembrandt Macy |
| The Hollywood Sign | 2001 | | Tom Greener |
| Training Day | 2001 | | Stan Gursky |
| Cutaway | 2000 | TV Movie | Red Line |
| Law & Order | 2000 | TV Series | Dean Tyler |
| Takedown | 2000 | | McCoy Rollins |
| In the Company of Spies | 1999 | TV Movie | Kevin Jefferson |
| Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying | 1999 | | Sikes |
| One Man's Hero | 1999 | | John Riley |
| Diplomatic Siege | 1999 | | Gen. Buck Swain |
| A Murder of Crows | 1998 | | Clifford Dubose |
| Shadow of Doubt | 1998 | | Jack Campioni |
| The Gingerbread Man | 1998 | | Pete Randle |
| Rough Riders | 1997 | TV Series | Theodore Roosevelt |
| An Occasional Hell | 1996 | | Dr. Ernest Dewalt |
| The Substitute | 1996 | | Jonathan Shale |
| Last of the Dogmen | 1995 | | Lewis Gates |
| Body Language | 1995 | TV Movie | Atty. Gavin St. Claire |
| The Avenging Angel | 1995 | TV Movie | Miles Utley |
| Chasers | 1994 | | Rock Reilly |
| Major League II | 1994 | | Jake Taylor |
| Gettysburg | 1993 | | Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet |
| Sliver | 1993 | | Jack Landsford |
| Cheers | 1993 | TV Series | Don Santry |
| Sniper | 1993 | | Thomas Beckett |
| At Play in the Fields of the Lord | 1991 | | Lewis Moon |
| Dream On | 1991 | TV Series | Nick Spencer |
| Shattered | 1991 | | Dan Merrick |
| The Field | 1990 | | Peter - The American |
| Love at Large | 1990 | | Harry Dobbs |
| Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | | Recruiting Gunnery Sgt. Hayes |
| Major League | 1989 | | Jake Taylor |
| Last Rites | 1988 | | Father Michael Pace |
| Betrayed | 1988 | | Gary Simmons |
| Shoot to Kill | 1988 | | Jonathan Knox |
| Someone to Watch Over Me | 1987 | | Det. Mike Keegan |
| Platoon | 1986 | | Sgt. Barnes |
| If Tomorrow Comes | 1986 | TV Mini-Series | Jeff Stevens |
| Rustlers' Rhapsody | 1985 | | Rex O'Herlihan |
| Fear City | 1984 | | Matt Rossi |
| Eddie and the Cruisers | 1983 | | Frank Ridgeway |
| The Big Chill | 1983 | | Sam |
| Beyond the Door | 1982 | | Matthew Jackson |
| The Dogs of War | 1980 | | Drew |
| Flesh & Blood | 1979 | TV Movie | Bobby Fallon |
| Butch and Sundance: The Early Days | 1979 | | Butch Cassidy / Robert Leroy Parker |
| In Praise of Older Women | 1978 | | Andras Vayda |
| Rush It | 1978 | | Richard Moore |
| Looking for Mr. Goodbar | 1977 | | Gary |
| Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye | 1977 | TV Movie | Billy Sutton |
| The Sentinel | 1977 | | Man at end |
| Kolchak: The Night Stalker | 1974 | TV Series | Boy At Pool |
| One Life to Live | 1968 | TV Series | Timothy "Timmy / Tim" Seigel #2 (1975-1976) |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Platoon: 30 | 2017 | Documentary post-production | Himself |
| Positively Paula | 2017 | TV Series | Himself |
| Parris Island 100 Years: We Make Marines | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Big Chill: Thirtieth Anniversary Q&A | 2014 | Video short | Himself |
| Mr. Baseball, Bob Uecker | 2014 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards | 2012 | TV Special | Himself - Winner: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie |
| Cocaine: History Between the Lines | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| Entertainment Tonight | 1989-2010 | TV Series | Himself |
| For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | 2010 | TV Movie documentary voice | |
| Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball - Confessions of an Assassin | 2010 | Video documentary short | Himself - Walter Weed |
| The Bunker Mentality: Designing the Set | 2010 | Video documentary short | Himself (uncredited) |
| Oliver Stone - Hollywoods Lieblingsrebell | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' | 2001 | Video documentary | Himself / Sgt. Barnes |
| The Directors | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Big Chill: A Reunion | 1999 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Maury | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 1996 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Lincoln Assassination | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| The Making of 'Gettysburg' | 1993 | Video documentary | Himself - 'Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet, Confederate' |
| The Making of 'Shattered' | 1991 | Video short | Himself |
| Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | 1987 | TV Movie documentary voice | |
| The 59th Annual Academy Awards | 1987 | TV Special | Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
| The American Sportsman | 1979 | TV Series | Himself |
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$16 Million
