TOM HULCE
Name: Thomas Edward Hulce
Born: 6 December 1953 Whitewater, Wisconsin, U.S.
Thomas Edward Hulce (born December 6, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated, Tony
Award- and Emmy Award-winning American actor and producer.
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 from Interlochen Arts Academy and then obtained his degree from
North Carolina School of the Arts.
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 Echo Park (1986), Slam Dance (1987), Shadow Man (1988), Dominick and
Eugene (1988), 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, who later directed Hulce's project Spring
Awakening on Broadway.
On Broadway, Hulce starred in A Memory of Two Mondays, Equus, and A Few Good Men,
for which he was Tony Award nominee in 1990. 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 Tony Award-winning 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 has been nominated for four Golden Globes, two Helen Hayes Awards and has
won an Emmy Award for his performance in The Heidi Chronicles, as well as his
aforementioned Tony award for producing the musical Spring Awakening.
Name: Thomas Edward Hulce
Born: 6 December 1953 Whitewater, Wisconsin, U.S.
Thomas Edward Hulce (born December 6, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated, Tony
Award- and Emmy Award-winning American actor and producer.
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 from Interlochen Arts Academy and then obtained his degree from
North Carolina School of the Arts.
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 Echo Park (1986), Slam Dance (1987), Shadow Man (1988), Dominick and
Eugene (1988), 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, who later directed Hulce's project Spring
Awakening on Broadway.
On Broadway, Hulce starred in A Memory of Two Mondays, Equus, and A Few Good Men,
for which he was Tony Award nominee in 1990. 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 Tony Award-winning 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 has been nominated for four Golden Globes, two Helen Hayes Awards and has
won an Emmy Award for his performance in The Heidi Chronicles, as well as his
aforementioned Tony award for producing the musical Spring Awakening.