Tom Downing

Tom Downing is an IrishAmerican television and film actor producer and writer Along with his work on the Emmy Winning The Marvelous Mrs Maisel Chicago PD Shameless and BULL his first major film was playing the lead in the dark comedy The Life Death of an Unhappily Married Man The film went on a 50 city international film festival tour winning over 20 awards including 14 for Best Film and over 30 nominations Winning Best Actor and Actor of the Year he garnered acclaim for a truly great lead performance That year Whistler International Film Festival named it a Top Pick alongside Carol Cate Blanchett Trumbo Bryan Cranston and Born To Be Blue Ethan Hawke The film went on to win the Canada Intl Film Festival Rising Star Award and the Extra Mile Award from the Sydney Indie Film Festival Following a worldwide release it became a TopSelling Comedy distributed through TimeWarner Sony Amazon and iTunes platforms The following year he appeared in Keep The Change Best US Film Winner Tribeca Film Festival Kino Lorber North American Theatrical and Hustlers starring Jennifer Lopez which grossed 1576 million globally Tom recently starred in the multi awardwinning film Skeletons alongside Robin Lord Taylor Gotham Tom is the creator producer and writing supervisor of Greetings From Prison an awardwinning dark comedy series starring himself along with Rusty Schwimmer The Perfect Storm John Reynolds Stranger Things and Chris Redd Saturday Night Live The show is a Silver Award Winner for Excellence in Internet Television DC Webfest and winner of Best Premise and Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series LA Webfest Tom was born to a large Irish Catholic family in Cleveland Ohio At 14 he began his creative work by taking music singing and acting classes while making small indie films and running his own radio show in Lafayette IN where he spent his formative years Tom is a graduate of the world famous training centers The Second City Conservatory The iO Theatre Chicagos Artistic Home and Purdue University where he was named the first recipient of their Outstanding Alumni Award in Film Video Studies In addition to acting he is also a country and western singer and guitar player and drummer and is also an experienced acrylic painter He splits his time between Los Angeles and New York City