Tom Riis Farrell (Actor)

Reviews of Tom Riis Farrell Movies

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Movies starring Tom Riis Farrell have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.

Almost Famous - released in 2000 - is Tom Riis Farrell's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 828 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Tom Riis Farrell is The Stepford Wives - released in 2004 - with a score of 43% based on 548 reviews.

Actor 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.

Tom Riis Farrell has acted in films with Nicolas Cage, Al Pacino, Ving Rhames and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Tom Riis Farrell has worked with these film directors: Martin Scorsese, Frank Oz, Cameron Crowe and Bob Balaban.