![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Screenwriter, Composer (Music Score), Actor Born: April 12, 1951 in Greenwich, CT Biography:A performer who succinctly defines the term "character actor," "Tom Noonan" has appeared in over 20 feature films and numerous TV series and movies, and has also enjoyed a career as a playwright, director, and acting professor. A 1973 graduate of the esteemed Yale acting program, "Noonan" began his career as a guitarist and composer, working with such downtown theater troupes as Mabou Mines and The Wooster Group (which has included fellow actor "Willem Dafoe" among its ranks) until he found his niche in film and TV in the early '80s.
"Noonan" began to find work as a premier villain in such films as "Manhunter" ([1986] the first film to feature the infamous Hannibal Lecter), "The Monster Squad" (1987), "Robocop 2" (1990), and "Last Action Hero" (1993), the latter few representing Hollywood action-adventure pictures that helped subsidize smaller projects that the actor wished to take on. One of these... Full Biography
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