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Thomas Edward Hulce (; born December 6, 1953) is an American actor and theatre producer. He is best known for his portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Academy Award-winning film Amadeus (1984), as well as the roles of Larry "Pinto" Kroger in (1978), Larry Buckman in Parenthood (1989), and in Disney's animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Hulce's awards include an for The Heidi Chronicles, a 2007 for Best Musical as a lead producer for Spring Awakening, an nomination for Best Actor for Amadeus, and four nominations.


Early life
Thomas Edward Hulce was born on December 6, 1953, in Detroit, Michigan. The youngest of four children, With Amadeus, Tom Hulce Finds His Career Crescendoing People, December 10, 1984 he was raised in Plymouth, Michigan. His mother, Joanna Winkleman, sang briefly with 's All-Girl Orchestra, and his father, Raymond Albert Hulce, worked for the Ford Motor Company. "Playing Ordinary Man Difficult for Hulce", Charlotte Observer, December 11, 1988. As a child, he wanted to be a singer, but he switched to acting after his voice changed in his teenage years. Amadeus Reinvents Himself, , December 5, 2006. He left home at the age of 15 and attended Interlochen Arts Academy. He then attended Beloit College,[4] earning a BA. He later attended the North Carolina School of the Arts, leaving a year before finishing his BFA. Hulce Found His Calling in Ann Arbor's Theater Community. Detroit Free Press, April 18, 2010.


Career

Acting career
Hulce debuted as an actor in 1974, playing opposite in Equus on Broadway and in Los Angeles. Throughout the rest of the 1970s and the early 1980s, he worked primarily as a theater actor, taking occasional parts in movies. His first film role was in the -influenced film September 30, 1955 in 1977. His next movie role was as freshman college student Larry "Pinto" Kroger in the classic comedy (1978). In 1983, he played a gunshot victim in the television show St. Elsewhere.

In the early 1980s, Hulce was chosen over intense competition (including , Mikhail Baryshnikov, , and

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) to play the role of in director Miloš Forman's film version of 's play. In 1985, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Amadeus, losing to his co-star, F. Murray Abraham. In his acceptance speech, Abraham paid tribute to his co-star, saying, "There's only one thing missing for me tonight, and that is to have Tom Hulce standing by my side."

In 1989, he received his second Best Actor Golden Globe Award nomination for 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 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994). In 1988, he played the title part in the British–Dutch movie Shadow Man, directed by the Polish director .

In 1990, he was nominated for his first for his performance as the 1960s activist Michael Schwerner in the 1990 Murder in Mississippi. He starred as 's in Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's 1991 film The Inner Circle. In 1996, he won an for his role as a pediatrician in a television-movie version of the Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Also that year, he was cast in Disney's animated film adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, providing the speaking and singing of the protagonist Quasimodo. Although Hulce largely retired from acting in the mid-1990s, he had in the movies Stranger Than Fiction (2006) and Jumper (2008).

Hulce remained active in theater throughout his entire acting career. In addition to Equus, he appeared in Broadway productions of A Memory of Two Mondays and A Few Good Men, for which he was a nominee in 1990. In the mid-1980s, he appeared in two different productions of playwright 's early AIDS-era drama The Normal Heart. The Heart of the Matter Gay Times, July 1986 In 1992, he starred in a Shakespeare Theatre Company production of . "Hamlet," Hulce & the Issue of Character The Washington Post, November 23, 1992 His regional theatre credits include at the Seattle Repertory Theatre and Nothing Sacred at the Mark Taper Forum, both in 1988. "Regional Theater Finds a Winner: 'Nothing Sacred' Is the Play of the Year Although It Never Received the Broadway Stamp of Approval". Los Angeles Times, October 16, 1988.

Hulce largely retired from acting beginning in the mid-1990s to focus on stage directing and producing. In 2023, Hulce made a brief return to acting by reprising the role of Quasimodo in the live-action/animated short Once Upon a Studio. Once Upon a Studio: Here's All the Actors Who Turned Up for Disney's 100th Anniversary Celebration, Comicbook.com, October 16, 2023. Behind the Voice Actors: Tom Hulce Behind the Voice Actors. Retrieved November 7, 2023


Career as producer
Among Hulce's major projects are the six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of 's The Cider House Rules; and Talking Heads, a festival of 's one-man plays that won six , a Drama Desk Award, a special Outer Critics Circle Award, and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. He also headed 10 Million Miles, a musical project by and -nominated singer-songwriter , that premiered in Spring 2007 at the Atlantic Theater Company.

Hulce was a lead producer of the Broadway hit Spring Awakening, which won eight in 2007, including one for Best Musical. He is also a lead producer of the stage adaptation of the album . The musical had its world premiere in Berkeley, California, at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2009 and opened on Broadway in April 2010. In 2017 he began work as a producer on the musical Ain't Too Proud, which received 11 Tony Award nominations in 2019. He also produced the 2004 movie A Home at the End of the World, based upon Michael Cunningham's novel.


Personal life
In 2008, Hulce identified as gay in an interview with Seattle Gay News. In the same interview, he took the opportunity to debunk a rumor that he had married a woman (supposedly an Italian artist named Cecilia Ermini) and had a daughter named Anya with her:

That information – having a wife and child – is false. In the world of the internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia and it doesn't have to be true. I'm comfortable among the lists of although I stopped acting about 10 years ago.


Filmography

Film
1977 ! scope="row"September 30, 1955Hanley
1978 ! scope="row"Lawrence "Pinto" Kroger
1980 ! scope="row"Those Lips, Those EyesArtie Shoemaker
1984 ! scope="row"AmadeusWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1986 ! scope="row"Echo ParkJonathan
1987 ! scope="row"Slam DanceC.C. Drood
1988 ! scope="row"Dominick and EugeneDominick "Nicky" LucianoNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
1988 ! scope="row"Shadow ManDavid Rubenstin / The Shadow Man
1989 ! scope="row"ParenthoodLawrence "Larry" Buckman
1989 ! scope="row"Gary Wallace
1991 ! scope="row"The Inner CircleIvan Sanshin
1993 ! scope="row"FearlessSteven Brillstein
1994 ! scope="row"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1995 ! scope="row"Wings of CourageAntoine de Saint-Exupéry
1996 ! scope="row"The Hunchback of Notre DameVoice
Nominated — Annie Award for Best Achievement in Voice Acting
2002 ! scope="row"The Hunchback of Notre Dame IIQuasimodoVoice
Direct-to-DVD
2004 ! scope="row"A Home at the End of the World Producer
2006 ! scope="row"Stranger Than FictionDr. Cayly
2008 ! scope="row"JumperMr. Bowker
2009 ! scope="row"Kyle Riabko: The LeadSelfDocumentary
2018 ! scope="row"The Seagull Producer
2022 ! scope="row"Spring Awakening: Those You've KnownSelfProducer
Documentary
2023 ! scope="row"Once Upon a StudioQuasimodoVoice
Short film


Television


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