Tom Berenger

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Tom Berenger (born Thomas Michael Moore; May 31, 1949) is an American television and motion picture actor.

In Platoon (1986), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes.

He is also known for his roles in the Major League films and Thomas Beckett in the Sniper films.

Mr. Goodbar (1977), The Dogs of War (1980), Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), One Man's Hero (1999), One Man's Hero (1999), and Inception (2010). Berenger received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for his role as Jim Vance in the 2012 miniseries Hatfields & McCoys.

Early life and education

Berenger was born in Chicago as Thomas Michael Moore, a member of a Catholic family of Irish descent, with his great-grandfather and grandmother settling in Chicago. Susan is his sister. His father was a printer for the Chicago Sun-Times and a traveling salesman.

Moore graduated in 1967 from Rich East High School in Park Forest, Illinois. After graduating in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, he pursued journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, but decided on a career in acting after his graduation in 1971.

Personal life

Berenger has married four times and has six children. He has two children by his first wife, Barbara Wilson, to whom he was married from 1976 to 1984: Allison Moore (born 1977) and Patrick Moore (born 1979). Chelsea Moore (born 1986), Chloe Moore (born 1989), and Shiloh Moore (born 1993). Scout Moore (born 1998) with Patricia Alvaran, to whom he was married from 1998-2011. In early September 2012, he married Laura Moretti in Sedona, Arizona.

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Career

He worked in regional theatre and then became a flight attendant with Eastern Airlines, headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1973, he moved to New York.

Moore used "Berenger" as his professional name after being required to change his surname for the Actors' Equity Association as his official name.

Berenger appeared on soap operas and appeared in One Life to Live as lawyer Tim Siegel. Rush It (1976), an independent film, was John Kerry's lead in his debut in Rush It (1976). In 1976, he was small actor in the lead role (played by Diane Keaton) in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which was based on the assassination of schoolteacher Roseann Quinn. He appeared in In Praise of Older Women for Avco-Embassy Pictures in 1978. He appeared in Butch and Sundance: The Early Days in 1979, a role he resemblance to Paul Newman, who played the character in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).

Berenger appeared in several major films in the 1980s, including The Big Chill (1983), Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985), Someone to Watch (1989), and Major League (1989). He received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Staff Sergeant Barnes in Platoon (this role earned him a Golden Globe Award for "Best Supporting Actor"). Thomas Beckett, the main character in the mid-1990s film Sniper (which will later be followed by six sequels starring Berenger in the starring role for four), is a role for which he has become well-known. Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Shattered (1991), and Chasers (1994). Berenger said it was too difficult to choose his favorite film out of those in which he had starred, but that the one he loved the most was 1993's Gettysburg, where he portrayed General James Longstreet.

In 1988, he established the Tom Berenger Acting Scholarship Fund to honor theatre students for outstanding results.

Berenger has maintained his active film and television career in recent years, but often at a supporting level. In its last season, Rebecca Howe's blue collar-plumber love interest, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series," was one of his most notable television appearances. In the 1990s, he began working as a producer. Berenger co-produced the 1997 miniseries Rough Riders, as well as actor Theodore Roosevelt.

Berenger appeared on the box art and promotional material for Novalogic's Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, as his appearances in Sniper 2 and Sniper 3 were very similar to what was expected for the game's artwork. In "The Road Virus Heads North," he appeared in Stephen King's Nightmares & Dreamscapes as a heralded author who discovers that the warped painting he recently purchased is still alive with illustrations of imminent doom for him. In the dramatic thriller Breaking Point, which had a limited release beginning in December 2009, Berenger stars Armand Assante and Busta Rhymes.

Berenger appeared in Leonardo DiCaprio and Cillian Murphy's debut in Inception, a science fiction thriller in which he played a mentor to and was an associate of Murphy's father. It was his first major film role since 2001's Training Day. Jim Vance, uncle of protagonist Devil Anse Hatfield (played by Kevin Costner), appeared in the television miniseries Hatfields & McCooys in 2012. Berenger received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie on September 23, 2012.

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