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Tom hulce was born on 6th december in 1953.he was born in Detroit, Michigan ( some sources incorrectly say <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater,_Wisconsin">Whitewater</a>, Wisconsin).he was raised in Plymouth,Michigan with his sibling. according to his interview to 'people'in december 10th 1984, he was the youngest of all .he had two sisters and an older brother. his mother , Joanna(nee <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Winkleman">Winkleman</a>) , sang briefly with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Spitalny">Phil Spitalny</a>'s ' all - girl'  orchestra , and his father, raymond albert hulce, worked for the  Ford motor company. this can be confirmed with the retrived article -" william holden, patrick swayze, and tom hulce: their  cousinship with Jean margaret throughb the betts family" - december 5 , 2013.

As a child he wanted to be a singer,perhaps his mother's genes influencing  him. he had completed his schooling at his nineten years. he lovbed to be a singer and unfortunately his voice wasn ' t cooperating as it had changed may be due to teenage.he understood his status and quickly swifted his decision to becoming an actor. with that decision he started toi work towards becoming an actor. latet on, he was asked  the reason behind his decision of becoming an actorm and he replied that he someone saying that acrting is something that was hard to learn and he wanted to prove it wrong.. to the world's surprise he acompalished his goal in his future.

Early life:

He started to work as a ticket selkler and usher in ann arbor. he was impressed by christipher walken in a play in startford, ontario. that was the spark that created a desire in young tom's mind that he had to become an actor.obviously , his parent' s didnt like his idea, hence detained their support for him to go for his goal. on his own determination,  he left home at the age of 15 and attended Interlochen  art Academy and the North carolina school of the arts.before reaching newyork to work in broadway he spent his vacation in england.

Hulce made his acting debute in 1975, playing opposite <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Perkins">Anthony perkins</a> in Equus on broadway . it was an interesting story that tom had been hired for an another horse at that time and he was really badly wanted the role. still , he was waited for his odds and he got the role after nine months of long waiting. it was his first work for broadway and he acted nude in that role. later, he was asked why he didnt felt bembarrassed while doing the character. he replied that it was comfortable with  Robertta maxwell that it was written so naturally and in abrilliant way that he couldnt avoid or embarrassed with the nude scene. this was the stage he set for his life that he had turned out high in television..

Throughoiut the rest of the early 1980s , he worked primarily as a theatre actor, taking occational parts in movies.his first film role wasas fresh man student Lawrence ' pinto ' kroger in the classic comedy-Animal house in 1978. in 1983 ,he played a gunshot victim in the television show-St Elsewhere. in the early 1980s, hulce was chosen over intense competition (which included david bowie,mikail baryshnikov and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh">kenneth branagh</a>) to play the role of Mozart in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miloš_Forman">director</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miloš_Forman">Milos forman</a>'s film version of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shaffer">Peter shaffer</a>'s play Amadeus.in 1984, he was nomonated for an academy award for best actor for his performance, losing his costar, F. Murray abraham. in his acceptance speech, abraham paid tribute to his co actor saying,"there's only one thing that's missing for me tonight., and that's to have tom hulce standing by my side"

In 1989, he received his second best actorGolden globe award nominationfor a critically acclaimed performance as an intellectually challenged garbage collector in the 1988 movie-Dominick and eugene. he played supporting roles in parenthood (1989),Fearless(1993),and Marry shelley's Frankenstein(1994). in 1988 he played the title part in the british dutch movie -shadowman directed bythe <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Andrejew">polish director</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Andrejew">Piotr andrejew</a>.

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In 1990, he was nominated for his first Emmy award for his performance as the 1960s civil rights activist Micherrl schwerner in the 1990 TV movie murder inmississippi.in 1996, he won an emmy award for his role as a pedestrian in a televisionmovie version of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Wasserstein">Wendy wasserstein</a> play- the heidi chronicles, nstarring <a href="/biography/jamie-lee-curtis">Jamie lee curtis</a>.

Among his many plays , butter and eggman by george , memory of two monkeys by arthur miller, the seagull by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov">chekhov</a>, candida by sha in additio  were few plays he was nominated for tony awards. he starred in shakespeare  theatrecompany production of 'hamlet'although he had retired from acting in the mid 1990s, he had bit parts in the recent movies -jumper(2008) and stranger than fiction(2006).in 1984, tom was given the title role of oscar winning Amadeus of wolf gang amadeus that also increased the sale of mozards music by 30% which was remarkable.

Career as producer:

Hulce produced two major project : the six hour, two evening stage adaptation of john irvings-the cidar house rules; and talking heads, a festivel of alan bennetts, one man plays that won six obi awards, A drama desk awards , A special outer critics circle awards and, A newyourk Drama critics circle awards for best foreign play. He also headed ten million miles , amusical project by keith bunin and Grasmmy awards-  nominated singer and song writter patty griffin , That premiered in spring Two thousan seven at the atlantic theatre company . Hulce was a lead <a href="/biography/tom-hulce">producer</a> of the broadway hit'spring awakening' , which won eight tony awards in 2007 inculding one for best musical. He is also a lead <a href="/biography/tom-hulce">producer</a> of a stage adaptation of the-green day album american idiot. the musical had its world premiere in Berkeley, California, at the Berkeley Repertory theatre in 2009 and opend on boardway in april 2010. he also produced the 2004 movie " A Home at the end of the world" based upon <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cunningham">michael cunningham</a>'s novel.

Personal life:

Ther where so many reports about hulce being married to cecilia ermini with a rumor of the two having a daughter named Anya. none of this was actually true and he him self denied this in an interview to"seattle gay news"

Net worth:

His title role of his oscar winning movie  "Amadeus" gave him more fame and his other many remarkable roles through out his life gave him his net worth of $ 15million

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