Who is Tom Berenger?
Tom Berenger is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer, and screenwriter who is perhaps best known for his appearances in films such as “Major League” and “Sniper”, as well as the films “Platoon” (1986), “Gettysburg” (1993), “The Substitute” (1996) as well as “Training Day” (2001) and “Inception” (2010) to name but a few. For starring in the Golden Globe-winning historical drama miniseries “Hatfields & McCoys”, Berenger received the prestigious Primetime Emmy Award in 2012.
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Youth and education
Thomas Michael ‘Tom’ Moore was born under the zodiac sign Gemini on the 31st.st 1949, in Chicago, Illinois, and in addition to being of American nationality and white ethnicity, he is also of Irish descent. After graduating from Rich East High School in 1967, Tom enrolled at the University of Missouri from which he graduated in 1971, earning his Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. He was also a student of the Herbert Berghof studios.
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After graduating, Tom began his career in 1972 when he joined Eastern Airlines as a flight attendant. In 1973, he moved to New York to pursue an acting career and changed his last name to Bérenger. His screen acting debut came in 1975, when he was cast in the recurring role of Tim Siegel on one of America’s longest running soap operas – ‘One Life to Live’. His first appearance on the big screen was in 1977, when he briefly appeared in the horror film “The Sentinel”.
Later that year he appeared alongside Diane Keaton and Richard Gere in the Oscar-nominated drama ‘Looking for Mr. Goodbar’, while in 1978 he played the titular character in the independent comedy film “Rush It”. He gained greater notoriety later in 1978, when he starred in the comedy-drama ‘In Praise of Older Women’, while in 1979 he was cast as Butch Cassidy in the nominated Western film. at the Oscars “Butch and Sundance: The First Days”.
With the onset of the 1980s era and with his booming career, Tom began to appear in bigger roles, adding several memorable appearances to his acting portfolio, including critically acclaimed films such as “The Dogs of War” (1980), “The Big Chill” (1993), “Eddie and the Cruisers” (1983) and “Rustlers’ Rhapsody” (1985). For his portrayal of Sgt. Barnes in “Platoon,” Oliver Stone’s four-time Oscar-winning 1986 war drama, Berenger was honored with an Academy Award nomination as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a movie.
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Before landing a role in the first installment of the eponymous film franchise – “Major League” (1989), Tom appeared in the films “Someone to Watch Over Me” (1987) and “Shoot to Kill” (1988).
Professional acting career
In 1990, Tom appeared in the Oscar-nominated thriller “The Field,” after which he starred in the Golden Globe-nominated drama “At Play in the Fields of the Lord.” He came into limelight in 1993 when he was cast in the lead role of Thomas Beckett in the first film in the ‘Sniper’ film series, while later that year he starred in the historical war drama “Gettysburg.”
The following year, he reprized his role as Jake Taylor in the sports film “Major League II”, which would be followed by the lead role in the western “Last of the Dogmen” in 1995. In the late 1990s, Tom also starred in critically acclaimed films such as “The Substitute” (1996), “A Murder of Crows” (1998) and “One Man’s Hero” (1999).
After starring in the Oscar-winning thriller “Training Day” in 2001, Bérenger starred in two sequels to the “Sniper” franchise, before appearing in the television series “Peacemakers” and “October Road.”
In 2010, he appeared alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Christopher Nolan’s four-time Oscar-winning masterpiece “Inception”, after which he played the recurring role of Rainer Gerhardt in the television action drama series “XIII : The Series”. After winning the Primetime Emmy Award in 2012 for his performance in the television mini-series “Hatfields & McCoys”, he appeared between 2013 and 2015 in the television series “Major Crimes”. Some of Tom’s more recent screen appearances include films such as ‘Gone Are The Days’ (2018) and ‘Sargasso’ (2019).
Private life
Bérenger’s private life is as thrilling as his career as a professional actor: he has been married four times and has six children! Between 1976 and 1984 he was married to Barbara Wilson, with whom he had a daughter Alison born in 1977, and a son Patrick born in 1979. From 1986 to 1997 he was married to Lisa Williams, with whom he was three daughters – Chelsea (1986), Chloe (1988) and Shiloh born in 1993. During Tom’s third marriage to Patricia Alvaran, which lasted between 1998 and 2011, he had another daughter named Scout born in 1998.
Since September 2012, he has been married to Laura Moretti.
In 1988 he started the Tom Berenger Acting Scholarship Fund.
Net value
According to estimates from authoritative sources, Tom Berenger’s total wealth as of mid-2020 hovers around an impressive $8 million. All of this has been acquired during his nearly five-decade acting career since the early 1970s, during which time he has already appeared in over 100 films.
