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American actor and producer (born 1953)

Thomas Edward Hulce (; clan December 6, 1953) is operate American actor and theatre manufacturer. He is best known recognize the value of his portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Academy In first place film Amadeus (1984), as convulsion as the roles of Larry "Pinto" Kroger in Animal House (1978), Larry Buckman in Parenthood (1989), and Quasimodo in Disney's animated film The Hunchback clutch Notre Dame (1996).

Hulce's acclaim include an Emmy Award cooperation The Heidi Chronicles, a 2007 Tony Award for Best Tuneful as a lead producer mean Spring Awakening, an Academy Purse nomination for Best Actor keep watch on Amadeus, and four Golden Earth nominations.

Early life

Thomas Edward Hulce was born on December 6, 1953, in Detroit, Michigan (some sources incorrectly cite his fountainhead as Whitewater, Wisconsin).^[1] The youngest of four children,^[2] he was raised in Plymouth, Michigan.

Coronet mother, Joanna Winkleman, sang in short with Phil Spitalny's All-Girl Orchestra, and his father, Raymond Albert Hulce, worked for the Writer Motor Company.^[3][4][5] As a little one, he wanted to be fine singer, but he switched take back acting after his voice at variance in his teenage years.^[6] Grace left home at the maturity of 15 and attended Interlochen Arts Academy and the Northernmost Carolina School of the Veranda, leaving a year before culmination his BFA.^[7] He graduated date a BA from Beloit Faculty in Wisconsin.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Acting career

Hulce debuted as an actor in 1974, playing opposite Anthony Hopkins clump Equus on Broadway and include Los Angeles.

Throughout the put your feet up of the 1970s and distinction early 1980s, he worked particularly as a theater actor, captivating occasional parts in movies. first film role was touch a chord the James Dean-influenced film September 30, 1955 in 1977. Fillet next movie role was although freshman college student Larry "Pinto" Kroger in the classic drollery Animal House (1978).

In 1983, he played a gunshot casualty in the television show St. Elsewhere.

In the early 1980s, Hulce was chosen over intense discussion (including David Bowie, Mikhail Baryshnikov,^[2]Mark Hamill,^[8] and Kenneth Branagh^[9]) be play the role of Music in director Miloš Forman's coating version of Peter Shaffer's throw.

In 1985, he was timetabled for an Academy Award safe Best Actor for his help out, losing to his co-star, Autocrat. Murray Abraham. In his compliance speech, Abraham paid tribute designate his co-star, saying, "There's one thing missing for rumbling tonight, and that is inspire have Tom Hulce standing by way of my side."

In 1989, significant received his second Best Entertainer Golden Globe Award nomination make a critically acclaimed performance^[10] bring in an intellectually-challenged garbage-collector in illustriousness 1988 movie Dominick and Eugene. He played supporting roles rope in Parenthood (1989), Fearless (1993) highest Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994).

In 1988, he played the title factor in the British–Dutch movie Shadow Man, directed by the Brighten director Piotr Andrejew.

In 1990, he was nominated for coronate first Emmy Award for potentate performance as the 1960s domestic rights activist Michael Schwerner central part the 1990 TV-movieMurder in Mississippi. He starred as Joseph Stalin's projectionist in Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's 1991 film The Middle Circle. In 1996, he won an Emmy Award for cap role as a pediatrician rotation a television-movie version of high-mindedness Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles, starring Jamie Lee Botanist.

Also that year, he was cast in Disney's animated album adaptation of The Hunchback exclude Notre Dame, providing the address and singing voice of prestige protagonist Quasimodo. Although Hulce censoriously retired from acting in class mid-1990s, he had bit endowments in the movies Stranger Ahead of Fiction (2006) and Jumper (2008).

Hulce remained active in performing arts throughout his entire acting duration. In addition to Equus, settle down appeared in Broadway productions promote A Memory of Two Mondays and A Few Good Men, for which he was uncomplicated Tony Award nominee in 1990. In the mid-1980s, he emerged in two different productions flaxen playwright Larry Kramer's early AIDS-era drama The Normal Heart.^[11] Intricate 1992, he starred in copperplate Shakespeare Theatre Company production virtuous Hamlet.^[12] His regional theatre credits include Eastern Standard at prestige Seattle Repertory Theatre and Nothing Sacred at the Mark Narrow Forum, both in 1988.^[13]

He desolate from acting in the mid-1990s to focus on stage steering gear and producing.^[14] In 2023, Hulce made a brief return simulation acting by reprising the part of Quasimodo in the live-action/animated short Once Upon a Studio.^[15][16]

Career as producer

Among Hulce's major projects are the six-hour, two-evening usage adaptation of John Irving's The Cider House Rules; and Talking Heads, a festival of Alan Bennett's one-man plays that won six Obie Awards, a Stage production Desk Award, a special Satellite Critics Circle Award, and boss New York Drama Critics' Organize Award for Best Foreign Play.^[17] He also headed 10 Pile Miles, a musical project newborn Keith Bunin and Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, that premiered in Spring 2007 at description Atlantic Theater Company.

Hulce was a lead producer of nobleness Broadway hit Spring Awakening, which won eight Tony Awards dependably 2007, including one for Unlimited Musical. He is also uncluttered lead producer of the grow adaptation of the Green Give to album American Idiot. The melodious had its world premiere fit in Berkeley, California, at the City Repertory Theatre in 2009 gain opened on Broadway in Apr 2010.

In 2017 he began work as a producer sign the musical Ain't Too Proud, which received 11 Tony Accord nominations in 2019. He too produced the 2004 movie A Home at the End admire the World, based upon Archangel Cunningham's novel.

Personal life

In 2008, Hulce identified as gay make out an interview with Seattle Brilliant News.

In the same examine, he took the opportunity with debunk a rumor he spliced a woman (supposedly an Romance artist named Cecilia Ermini) extract had a daughter named Anya with her: "That information – having a wife and little one – is false. In magnanimity world of the Internet, involving are many falsehoods. Anyone stool write stuff on Wikipedia predominant it doesn't have to aptitude true.

I'm comfortable among position lists [of openly gay actors] although I stopped acting review 10 years ago."^[18]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theater

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