Tom Everett

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Age: 76, born 21 October 1948

Country of origin: United States

Currently Residing In: United States

Height: 5' 9"

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Description: A native of Oregon, the son of Viennese parents, Everett is a first cousin once removed of supercentenarian Aliza Sommer-Herz (1903-2014) , subject of the Best Documentary Short of 2014, The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (2013). He graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts on an ITT International Fellowship in the Fulbright Competition, Everett is an accomplished cellist , guitarist, and country singer-songwriter (RCA album - "Porchlight on in Oregon" and the two independently released CD's "Still Waters - (A Collection of Years) & "Watershed of an Earlier Heart: Songs of the Or A native of Oregon, the son of Viennese parents, Everett is a first cousin once removed of supercentenarian Aliza Sommer-Herz (1903-2014) , subject of the Best Documentary Short of 2014, The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (2013). He graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts on an ITT International Fellowship in the Fulbright Competition, Everett is an accomplished cellist , guitarist, and country singer-songwriter (RCA album - "Porchlight on in Oregon" and the two independently released CD's "Still Waters - (A Collection of Years) & "Watershed of an Earlier Heart: Songs of the Oregon Troubador").

As a character actor, he has played everything from white collar professionals to starring as Brian David Mitchell in the television movie "The Elizabeth Smart Story" to comedic work in "Winning Isn't Everything" at New York's Hudson Guild Theatre directed by legendary comedic director George Abbott, to playing southern white trash Alfredo in Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990). Higher profile roles include Sgt. Pepper in Dances with Wolves (1990), the straight-laced National Security Officer Jack Doherty in Air Force One (1997), and the black stovepipe-hatted Mosley Baker in The Alamo (2004). He created other memorable, idiosyncratic characterizations in lesser known films: Assistant Coach to James Earl Jones in Best of the Best (1989), Rabbitt in Prison (1987) starring Viggo Mortensen, etc. The directors, producers, and actors with whom he has worked more than once include, among others, Michael Bay ("Pearl Harbor, "Transformers" and "The Island"), and John Lee Hancock (including "Hard Time Romance," "The Rookie" (scenes deleted), and "The Alamo."), Kevin Costner ("Dances With Wolves" and "Thirteen Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis"), and Alex Graves & Kevin Falls ("West Wing" and "Journeyman"). Most recently he had the great pleasure of working with director Theodore Melfi in the film "The Starling."

Television audiences have seen him in a whole host of projects doing a variety of roles including as Rory Carmichael, the condemned Alabama death row inmate in the pilot episode of _"The Beast" (2001) directed by Mimi Leder, as the recurring character Charles Frost on "West Wing", and as the recurring character Dr. Elliot Langley on Journeyman (2007).

Everett received scholarships to Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, NYU School of the Arts where he received an MFA, Perry-Mansfield School of Drama and Dance. He spent 12 years in New York honing his craft and acting in five Broadway plays, many off-Broadway & off-off Broadway & regional theatre ones too (including his being a Resident Member of The American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut. ... (more)

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