Tom Whelehan

Actor, Writer, Filmmaker, Producer...Tom honed his acting skills on the improv stages and teaching the classrooms of his native Chicago. The youngest of seven kids in a typically dysfunctional Irish-Catholic family. He began teaching inmates in a minimum security prison. They didn't tell him it was a prison, til he showed up for work. Finally settling into teaching English to foreign students. His student think he's teaching them, but he's really using them for character studies. After extensive stage experience, including a play done entirely in the dark(!) he began appearing in History Channel documentaries such as "Black Mass, the story of the Irish mob" and sharpen his gun-totin' skills in a Police Training Live-Fire action video. Following a two-year stint on stage in the improv hit "Flannagan's Wake", as the slightly misguided Father Damien Fitzgerald, he got his Irish passport, the only thing his Irish Daddy left him and hit the road. His travels have led him down the Amazon to Mt. Everest base camp and in between he's been in such films as a sleepy Congressman in "Legally Blond 2", a severed head-covering paramedic in "Rush", a battling Skinhead in a London music video, a reporter in "King of Soho", and most recently, a surveyor preparing to tear down a youth club in the upcoming "All Stars". When not performing, Tom is a budding filmmaker and producer, took courses at the renown Raindance Film School and received his Documentary Filmmaking Diploma at Kensington and Chelsea College for "Once Upon A Schoolhouse" about Beatrix Potter/Bousefield School, in his Chelsea neighbourhood. Tom is a producer for ArtHertz.com, a multi-media company and just returned from Cannes where their film "Sonus" (co-produced with Ridley Scott Associates) was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.