Tom Riis Farrell

Known for ActingBorn 1959-08-17 (age 66)

Tom Riis Farrell was born in Oceanside, New York. He attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, earning a BA in Theatre in 1981. His first film was Regarding Henry (1991), but he was edited out. Most recently, he appeared off-Broadway in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, starring Al Pacino, Charles Durning, Tony Randall, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, and Paul Giamatti. Prior to that, he was in the Broadway, San Francisco, Pasadena, and touring productions of Claudia Shear's play "Dirty Blonde," receiving a Helen Hayes Award and a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for that performance. Other Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include "1776" (Roundabout and Gershwin Theatres); "Wrong Mountain" (Eugene O'Neill Theatre); "Li'l Abner" (Encores! at City Center); and "View of the Dome" (NY Theatre Workshop). Tom shows up in the movies Trust the Man (2005), Marie and Bruce (2004), The Stepford Wives (2004), Almost Famous (2000), Bringing Out the Dead (1999), The Out-of-Towners (1999), The Devil's Advocate (1997) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993). Television work includes Ed (2000), NYPD Blue (1993), Spin City (1996), four episodes of Law & Order (1990) and one of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), as well as the television movies The Love Letter (1998) with Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and The Deliverance of Elaine (1996) with Mare Winningham, Chris Cooper, and Lloyd Bridges.Read more

Movies & web series

Mr. Robot

Fringe

Evil

The Americans

Blue Bloods

The Black Donnellys

Elementary

Scent of a Woman

The Good Wife

The Exonerated

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Almost Famous

The Devil's Advocate

Law & Order

Nurse Jackie

Future '38

Spin City

Swift Justice

New York News

Rise

Ask for Jane

Sleepless in Seattle

Shadows and Fog

The Rebound

Bringing Out the Dead

The Love Letter

The Bourne Legacy

That Awkward Moment

Lullaby

All Good Things

The Out-of-Towners

The Stepford Wives

Kiss of Death

Tell-Tale

The Deliverance of Elaine

Marie and Bruce