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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1956-06-01

Place of Birth

Peoria, Illinois, USA

Tom Irwin

Biography

Tom Irwin (born Thomas Edward Irwin, June 1, 1956, in Peoria, Illinois, USA) graduated from Illinois State University and joined the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1979 as a founding member, performing alongside Laurie Metcalf, John Malkovich, and Gary Sinise in over 50 productions. He won a Joseph Jefferson Award for The Glass Menagerie and made his Broadway debut in 1990 in The Grapes of Wrath. He is a class instructor at Steppenwolf Theater West School of Drama in Los Angeles, where he lives. His notable film credits include Light of Day (1987, with Michael J. Fox and Susan Sarandon), Midnight Run (1988, with Robert De Niro), Deceived (1991, with Goldie Hawn), Mr. Jones (1993, with Rupert Everett), The Haunting (1999, with Lili Taylor), 21 Grams (2003, with Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro), Marley & Me (2008, with Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston), The Bling Ring (2011, dir. Sofia Coppola, with Katie Holmes), On the Basis of Sex (2018, with Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer), and Amsterdam (2022, dir. David O. Russell, with Christian Bale and Margot Robbie). His notable television roles include My So-Called Life (1994), Devious Maids (2013), and The Morning Show (2019).

Known for

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy

Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

Law & Order

Law & Order

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.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.

Lost

Lost

Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

Castle

Castle

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.

24

24

Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.

Frasier

Frasier

After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.

Without a Trace

Without a Trace

The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City.

ER

ER

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

The Closer

The Closer

Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.

Ghost Whisperer

Ghost Whisperer

Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.

Scandal

Scandal

Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits," who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.

Numb3rs

Numb3rs

Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.