
Tom Riis Farrell
Biography
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.
Acting (21 movies)

Tell-Tale
2009

The Stepford Wives
2004

Shadows and Fog
1991

The Bourne Legacy
2012

The Love Letter
1998

Scent of a Woman
1992

Sleepless in Seattle
1993

Almost Famous
2000

The Out-of-Towners
1999

All Good Things
2010

Future '38
2017

The Rebound
2009

Kiss of Death
1995

Ask for Jane
2019

Marie and Bruce
2004

Bringing Out the Dead
1999

That Awkward Moment
2014

The Deliverance of Elaine
1996

The Devil's Advocate
1997

Lullaby
2014

The Exonerated
2006
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