Tom Skerrit is a world-famous American film and television actor. His professional career in the film industry began back in 1962 and continues to this day. Today, he has accounted for almost two hundred works of completely different genres and themes.
Tom Skerrit Biography
The future actor was born on August 25, 1933 in the city of Detroit, in the state of Michigan, USA. Now he is 85 years old, but he continues to act in films. His father was an entrepreneur, and his mother ran a household.
Tom did not plan to become an actor, so after graduating from high school, he entered first at Wayne State University, and then at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He received his first role in 1962, when he was almost 30 years old. It was the movie "Military Hunt", where he played Sergeant Stan Shawolter. Since then, he began to actively act in films and TV shows.
Tom Skerrit: movies
Of the 190 works in which he took part as an actor, the films “Alien”, “Contact”, “Stoned” and “Another Sister” can be called the best. Of the many paintings, White Collar, The Good Wife and Rob the Loot stand out.
Of the works that have been released over the past few years, one can single out the film "The Hologram for the King", released in 2016 with Tom Hanks in the title role. The plot focuses on the unlucky businessman Alan Clay, who, in an attempt to push through his daring project, goes to Saudi Arabia to offer it to the king. Along the way, he gets acquainted with exotic oriental culture.
Also in 2016, Tom released the American West mini-series, shot in Western style. Events unfold in the 1860-90s. The main characters are ruthless criminals who want to seize more land in the West and plunder wealth.
In 2017, the painting "Lucky" saw the light, telling about a 90-year-old man who is quietly living his life. Once he was bored with his monotonous life and he realized that he did not want to spend the rest of his days like that. Therefore, the lucky one embarks on an adventurous walking trip.
Conclusion
T. Skerrit is one of the most outstanding actors of our time. His contribution to cinema is hard to overestimate. For many years of work in the film industry, he embodied a huge number of characters on the screens. In his career, there were both major roles and minor cameos.
Despite his advanced age, he does not intend to stop and continues to act actively. For him, cinema and acting is not just an ordinary job, but a favorite thing to which he devoted his whole life.