Tom Hulce
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 Tom Hulce starring as Mozart in Amadeus |
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| Birth name | Thomas Edward Hulce |
| Born | December 6, 1953 Whitewater, Wisconsin |
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| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie 1996 The Heidi Chronicles |
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Thomas Hulce (born December 6, 1953) is an award-winning American actor.
Born in Whitewater, Wisconsin, Hulce was raised in Plymouth, Michigan. He wanted to be a singer as a small child, but switched to acting when his voice changed. He graduated at Interlochen Arts Academy and then moved on to graduate at North Carolina School of the Arts.
On Broadway, Hulce starred in A Memory of Two Mondays, Equus, and A Few Good Men, for which he won a Tony Award. He appeared in the groundbreaking early AIDS-era drama The Normal Heart in London’s West End and Hamlet at the Shakespeare Theater.
Hulce is a producer of the Broadway hit Spring Awakening. He shepherded two other major projects to fruition: the six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of John Irving's The Cider House Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of Alan Bennett’s plays which won six Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a special Outer Critics Circle Award, and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. Hulce also is heading a new musical project by Keith Bunin and Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Patty Griffin, scheduled for a Spring 2007 premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company.
Hulce's first film role was in the James Dean-influenced film 9/30/55 in 1977. His next was in the highly popular National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). In 1984, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Mozart in Amadeus, losing to his co-star, F. Murray Abraham. Other films include Slam Dance (1987), Shadow Man (1988), Dominick and Eugene (1998), Parenthood (1989), The Inner Circle (1991), Fearless (1993), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) (as the voice of the protagonist Quasimodo), and Stranger Than Fiction (2006). He also played 1960s Civil Rights activist Michael Schwerner in the 1990 TV-movie Murder in Mississippi.
Hulce produced the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s A Home at the End of the World directed by Michael Mayer.
Hulce has been nominated for four Golden Globes, two Helen Hayes Awards and has won an Emmy Award for his performance in The Heidi Chronicles
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| NAME | Hulce, Tom |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hulce, Thomas Edward |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Whitewater, Wisconsin |
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