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Tom Lester
Tom Lester (Thomas William Lester, 1938-2020), American actor and evangelist, played farmhand Eb Dawson on Green Acres (1965-1971), its crossovers, and Return to Green Acres; later a Mississippi farmer and speaker.
Tom Lipinski
Tom Lipinski (born 1982) is an American actor and documentary producer known as Trevor Evans in Suits, for the young Josh Brolin role in Labor Day, The Knick, Billions, and the Murrow Award-winning podcast Gone South.
Tom McCarthy (director)
Tom McCarthy (born 1966, New Providence, New Jersey) is an American screenwriter, director, and actor, distinct from the novelist and other namesakes. He directed The Station Agent, The Visitor, Win Win, and Spotlight, which won the 2016 Oscars for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
Tom McGowan
Tom McGowan (born 1959, Belmar, New Jersey) is an American character actor, Tony-nominated for La Bete on Broadway in 1991, Obie winner for The Food Chain, known as Kenny Daly on Frasier, and a recurring Wizard in Wicked.
Tom McGrath (animator)
Tom McGrath (animator), born 1964 or 1965, American DreamWorks Animation director and voice actor; co-directed Madagascar with Eric Darnell, directed Megamind and The Boss Baby films, and voices Skipper the penguin.
Tom McKay (actor)
Tom McKay (born 1979, Solihull, England) is an English actor; played Jasper Tudor in The White Queen, Jim McCoy in Hatfields & McCoys, and voices Henry of Skalitz in Kingdom Come: Deliverance I and II. Distinct from the Blackburn comedy director of the same name.
Tom Mison
Tom Mison (Thomas James Mison, born 1982, Woking, Surrey) is an English stage and screen actor and writer, known as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow (2013–2017) and for Watchmen, See, Posh, and the 2026 de Gaulle film as Anthony Eden.
Tom Mix
Tom Mix, born Thomas Edwin Mix, was an American actor who was the leading silent Western film star of the 1920s and reportedly Hollywood's highest-paid actor by 1928.
Tom Murphy
Tom Murphy (1935–2018) was an Irish playwright from Tuam, County Galway, whose more than 20 plays, from A Whistle in the Dark (1961) onward, became mainstays of Irish theater.
Tom Noonan
Tom Noonan (Thomas Patrick Noonan, 1951-2026) was an American character actor, playwright, and Sundance-winning director, the 6 ft 6 in villain of Manhunter, RoboCop 2, and Heat, and the voice of nearly everyone in Anomalisa.
Tom O'Connor (comedian)
Tom O'Connor (Thomas Patrick O'Connor, 1939-2021), Liverpool-born English stand-up comedian and game show host, won Opportunity Knocks three times and hosted Name That Tune, Crosswits, Gambit and The Zodiac Game.
Tom Owen (actor)
Tom Owen (Thomas William Stevenson Rowbotham, 1949–2022), British actor, son of Bill Owen; played Tom Simmonite in Last of the Summer Wine (2000–2010, 93 episodes) and Bill Cowan in Freewheelers.
Tom Papa
Tom Papa (Thomas Papa Jr.) is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for clean, observational comedy about family life and for touring as Jerry Seinfeld's opening act.
Tom Paris
Tom Paris (Thomas Eugene Paris) is the helmsman of Star Trek: Voyager, played by Robert Duncan McNeill, a reformed ex-Starfleet pilot and Maquis based on Nicholas Locarno, husband of B'Elanna Torres and father of Miral Paris.
Tom Payne (actor)
Tom Payne (born 1982, Chelmsford, Essex) is an English actor, not the Bristol casting director of the same name; known as Jesus on The Walking Dead, Malcolm Bright on Prodigal Son, and Rob Cole in The Physician.
Tom Pelphrey
Tom Pelphrey (Thomas J. Pelphrey, born 1982, Howell, New Jersey) is an American actor, Rutgers-trained, a two-time Daytime Emmy winner for Guiding Light, known for Ozark's Ben Davis, Banshee, Iron Fist, Outer Range, and HBO's Task, for which he won the 2026 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Tom Poston
Tom Poston (Thomas Gordon Poston, 1921–2007), American comic actor and 1959 Emmy winner as Steve Allen's man-on-the-street amnesiac; played George Utley on Newhart and Bickley on Mork & Mindy; married Suzanne Pleshette in 2001; died April 30, 2007, in Los Angeles.
Tom Rosenthal (actor)
Tom Rosenthal (Thomas Alan Smith Rosenthal, born 1988) is an English comedian and actor, Jonny Goodman in Friday Night Dinner and Marcus in Plebs, distinct from the singer-songwriter Tom Rosenthal born 1986.
Tom Sandoval
Tom Sandoval is an American reality TV personality, musician, and bar owner, an original Vanderpump Rules cast member whose 2023 affair with Raquel Leviss, dubbed Scandoval, made him widely known as a reality TV villain.
Tom Savini
Tom Savini (born 1946, Pittsburgh) is an American special make-up effects artist, actor, stuntman, and director, the 'Godfather of Gore' behind Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th, and Day of the Dead, and founder of a makeup effects school.
Tom Schilling
Tom Schilling (born 1982, East Berlin) is a German actor and musician, not the 1928–2026 choreographer of the same name. Known for Crazy, Oh Boy (German Film Award 2013), Werk ohne Autor, and as Björn Diemel in Netflix's Achtsam Morden (German Television Award 2026).
Tom Segura
Tom Segura: American stand-up comedian and podcaster; six Netflix specials including Teacher and Sledgehammer; co-founder of YMH Studios with Your Mom's House and 2 Bears, 1 Cave; 2025 Emmy-nominated for Bad Thoughts.
Tom Selleck
Tom Selleck, born 1945 in Detroit, is the American actor behind Magnum P.I. (1980-1988, Emmy 1984), who declined Indiana Jones, starred in Three Men and a Baby, the Jesse Stone films, Friends, and Blue Bloods, and wrote the 2024 memoir You Never Know.
Tom Shadyac
Tom Shadyac (Thomas Peter Shadyac, born 1958) is an American director of 1990s-2000s hit comedies (Ace Ventura, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, nearly $2 billion gross) who after a 2007 bike crash sold his mansion, made the documentary I Am, and turned to teaching and Memphis Rox.
Tom Six
Tom Six (born 1973, Alkmaar, Netherlands) is the Dutch director of The Human Centipede trilogy, ex-Big Brother director, co-founder of Six Entertainment; his unreleased The Onania Club and 2026 farewell documentary The End of Tom Six mark his career's end.
Tom Sizemore
Tom Sizemore (1961-2023), American character actor of Heat, Saving Private Ryan, and Black Hawk Down, whose tough-guy career was derailed by addiction and domestic violence convictions; died of a brain aneurysm.
Tom Skerritt
Tom Skerritt (Thomas Roy Skerritt, born August 25, 1933) is an American actor known for M*A*S*H, Alien's Captain Dallas, Top Gun's Viper, and Emmy-winning Sheriff Jimmy Brock on Picket Fences.
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard (Tomáš Straussler, 1937–2025), Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter; author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, and Leopoldstadt; five Tony Awards and an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love.
Tom Sturridge
Tom Sturridge (Thomas Sidney Jerome Sturridge, born 1985, London) is an English actor, son of director Charles Sturridge and actress Phoebe Nicholls; twice Tony-nominated (Orphans, Sea Wall/A Life) and star of Netflix's The Sandman as Dream/Morpheus.
Tom Thumb (1958 film)
Tom Thumb (1958) is a George Pal British-American musical fantasy adapted from the Grimm tale Daumesdick, starring Russ Tamblyn, Terry-Thomas, and Peter Sellers; it won the 1959 Oscar for Best Special Effects for its oversized-set trickery.