Thomas Allen
Birthday: Born in in Washington, D.C., U.S.
Deathday: Alive
Thomas Michael Allen is an American actor, writer and producer. He was born in Washington, D.C., his father was a salesman and his mother a professional day care provider. He began studying acting while in high school in Fairfax, Virginia and attended The North Carolina School of the Arts, leaving when cast in a national tour of "Camelot". He then appeared for a season at The Folger Theater in Washington before moving to New York City. In New York, he co-created and appeared in the original cast of the long running Off Broadway hit "Tony and Tina's Wedding" which ran for seventeen years in New York and spawned productions all over the world. After appearing in the LA company of the show, he was selected by Christopher Guest and Rob Reiner to recreate his role for the Fox TV series. A successful voice over and commercial actor, he has appeared in hundreds of spots over the years. He is the voice the role of Peanut in the critically acclaimed Cartoon Network animated series "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law", co-starring with Stephen Colbert and Gary Cole. In 2008, Thomas was accepted into the famed BMI Musical Theater Workshop, whose work recently won a Tony.
TV Credits
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
Character: Peanut (voice)
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law features ex-superhero Harvey T. Birdman of Birdman and the Galaxy Trio as an attorney working for a law firm alongside other cartoon stars from 1960s and 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series. Similarly, Harvey's clients are also primarily composed of characters taken from Hanna-Barbera cartoon series of the same era. Many of Birdman's nemeses featured in his former cartoon series also became attorneys, often representing the opposing side of a given case....
Law & Order
Character: CSU Detective Allen
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place....
Law & Order
Character: Assistant M.E. James Herrick
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place....
Let the Right One In
Character: Fergie Cook
Mark and his 12-year-old daughter’s lives were changed forever 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire. Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the minimal amount of human blood she needs to stay alive....
American Horror Story
Character: Dr. Kornblatt
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp....
Blue Bloods
Character: Dave Duggan
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief....
FBI: Most Wanted
Character: Greg
The Fugitive Task Force relentlessly tracks and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau's Most Wanted list. Seasoned agents oversee the highly skilled team that functions as a mobile undercover unit that is always out in the field, pursuing those who are most desperate to elude justice....
Movie Credits
StraussR: Ariadne auf Naxos
Character: Music Master
Glyndebourne's wartime history as a home for evacuee children is the ingenious context for a new production of this unclassifiable entertainment in which low comedy and high tragedy compete for our attention, "borne aloft by Strauss's divine music and Hofmannsthal's visionary poetry". At the centre of this production from Katharina Thoma is the noble, tragic figure of the abandoned Ariadne herself, in a haunting performance from Soile Isokoski, 'with brilliant support from the pit' (The Indepen...
Semele
Character: Athamas
Opera superstar Cecilia Bartoli offers her first operatic release on DVD in 12 years, and also her first opera in English. Bartoli stars as Semele (a role usually taken by a soprano) in Handel s late opera, which features such well-known arias as Endless pleasure, endless love, Myself I shall adore, and Oh sleep, why dost though leave me? Robert Carsen s stylish modern dress production hints at parallels with the problematic relationship between the late Princess Diana and the British Royal Fami...