Tom Hulce

Tom Hulce: Biography in Details

Who is Tom Hulce?

Tom Hulce is an American actor, singer, and theater producer. and entrepreneur. Although being four Golden Globe nominations, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award winner in acting.

He retired from acting in the mid-1990s. After that, he focused his work on stage directing and producing.

Tom Hulce: Age, Parent, and Ethnicity

Hulce was born on December 6, 1953, in Detroit, Michigan.  His is of English, German, Irish, and distant Dutch race.

His mother’s name is Joanna Winkleman. She sang briefly with Phil Spitalny’s All-Girl Orchestra. Likely, his father, Raymond Albert Hulce, worked for the Ford Motor Company.

Tom is the youngest one of the four children. He was interested in singing as a child and wanted to be a singer. However, he switched to acting after his voice changed in his teenage year.

In which school did Tom Hulce attend?

Tom attended Interlochen Arts Academy. Then he studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts, but leave it a year before finishing his BFA.

Tom graduated with a BA from Beloit College in Wisconsin.

Tom Hulce: Career, Professional life

Hulce’s debuted in acting in the year 1975 playing in Equus on Broadway. Throughout the late 1970s and the early 1980s, he worked in various theaters. The first film he worked on was the James Dean-influenced film on September 30, 1955, in 1977.

In the early 1980s, Hulce was chosen to play the role of Mozart in director Miloš Forman’s film. In the year 1989, Hulce received the second Best Actor Golden Globe Award nomination for the 1988 movie Dominick and Eugene.

Talking about his movies, Hulce has appeared in Parenthood (1989), Fearless (1993) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), Man(1988), and others. In 1990, he was nominated for his first Emmy Award for his performance in Murder in Mississippi.

In 1996, Tom Hulce even won an Emmy Award for his role in The Heidi Chronicles. The same year, he was cast in Disney’s animated film adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

He retired from acting in the mid-1990s, but was active behind the camera and had bit parts in the movies Stranger Than Fiction (2006) and Jumper (2008).

Tom Hulce has also built his career as a producer. He has produced two major projects The Cider House Rules; and Talking Heads. The producer also works on the musical Ain’t Too Proud in 2017 which received 11 Tony Award nominations in 2019.

Tom Hulce: Salary, Net Worth

Hulce’s net worth is around $15 million as of 2023. The actor was on the No. 1 spot on People With Money’s top 10 highest-paid actors with an estimated $58 million in combined earnings.

Hulce owns various restaurants (the “Fat Hulce Burger” chain) in Washington, and a Football Team (the “Detroit Angels”).

The producer has launched his brand of Vodka (Pure Wonderhulce – US). Moreover, he is all set to launch a top-selling perfume ‘With Love from Tom’, and a fashion line called “Tom Hulce Seduction”.

Tom Hulce: Rumor and controversy

Rumors of the Hulce’s alleged demise spread quickly all over the media just in July.

‘R.I.P. Tom Hulce’ Facebook page attracted nearly one million likes. His fans also even started writing various condolence messages expressing their sadness.

However, his death hoax was dismissed since the actor is alive and well as of now.

Similarly, there was other news before that he married an Italian artist named Cecilia Ermini and also has a daughter named Anya. It resulted in a false rumor as Hulce denied it and opened himself as a gay in an interview in 2008.

How tall is Tom Hulce?

Tom Hulce is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs around 82 kg. He has grey colored hair and with beautiful blue pair of eyes.

Social media

Tom Hulce is active on Instagram with around 900 followers, and likely around 3.5K followers on his Facebook account.

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