Tom was born in Detroit on 29th November 1964. Maeve’s birthday is 16th November.
Tom and Maeve are both practicing Catholics.
Tom has three brothers: Aaron, Paul, Charles and a sister, Kathrine. (Information by Laurie).
Tom’s father is also named Tom, and his mothers name is Judy.(Information by Laurie)
Tom Sr. won an academic scholarship to Harvard and, though now a lawyer, was once a philosophy proffessor.
Tom’s father took him to see ‘Taxi Driver’ when he was 13 years old. He’s seen it nearly thirty times since.
In one on-line entertainment guide, Tom was recently described as ‘son of Martin Sheen and brother of Emilio Estevez!’
As a teenager Tom sang tenor in musicals staged by local theatre groups. He was annoyed not being considered for the part of Che, (Antonio Banderas landed the role), in Alan Parker’s Evita. He’s about to start taking singing lessons again.
Tom earned a BFA in acting from Wayne State University and a masters degree in theatre from Temple University.
The first scene Tom did in an acting class was from in ‘The Boom Boom Room,’ by David Rabe. He played Big Al.
Chris Kowalski, one of Tom's friends in high school and Wayne State remembers one of Tom's earliest performances. He told us, "the first play I remember him in was 'The Music Man.' We did that show
our senior year in high school. We both played salesmen in the opening train scene, as well as chorus and townspeople. We were 16 or 17."
One of Tom’s Waynes State classmates remembers him as having long curly hair, a moustache, and a biker’s jacket.
For a comic book adaptation of ‘Scud – The Disposable Assassin,’ the creator, Rob Schrab, anounced he would like to cast Tom as ‘Forehead.’
Tom puts his recovery from drug addiction down to his wife, (then girlfriend), Maeve and, actor and friend, Robert De Niro
Tom claims emotional abandonment is the thing that scares him the most.
Tom doesn’t like Steven Seagal much. (Who does?)
Tom and Maeve were married on September 1st, 1996.
Tom and Maeve have made a pact never to spend more than two weeks apart after a recent six week stint away. “This was too long,” says Tom.
Tom is godfather to Michael Madsen’s youngest son, Hudson.
Tom wore his legendary ‘lucky’ jeans to the audition for ‘Born On The Fourth Of July,’ his first major film debut.
The car Tom is sitting in on our front page is his own.
Tom was beaten to the part of Mr Pink in ‘Reservoir Dogs’ by Steve Buscemi. (Like they couldn’t have thought of another colour?)
Tom met Maeve on the set of ‘Natural Born Killers.’ Maeve was working as an extra.
To prepare for ‘Natural Born Killers,’ Tom met with Ted Bundy’s psychiatrist and John Wayne Gacy.
For ‘Natural Born Killers,’ Tom was dressed by Emporio Armani.
In the fight scene with Malory Knox in ‘Natural Born Killers,’ Juliette Lewis really did break Tom’s nose.
Tom features in the longest ‘walk ‘n talk’ scene in movie history, as Jack Scagnetti in ‘Natural Born Killers.’
Tom evidentally gets a lot of letters from people who really like Jack Scagnetti. He finds it alarming.
Maeve worked as a production assistant on ‘Strange Days.’
In ‘Strange Days,’ Tom really did hang from the building 34 storeys high. He was forced to sign papers saying that if he died, the film-makers couldn’t be sued!
‘The Relic’ beat ‘Evita’ to number one in the US Box-office charts.
Tom came runner-up to David Arquette, (in ‘Scream 2’), in the ‘Best Male Actor In A Horror Film’ catergory at the 1997 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.
Tom’s favourite horror flick is ‘Alien.’
To gain weight for the part of John Gotti in ‘Witness To The Mob,’ Tom binged on ice-cream, pizza, pasta with cream sauce, meatball sandwiches, weight-gain powder. According to Maeve, “he started snoring, he never snored before!”
According to sources on the set of ‘Witness To The Mob,’ Tom got so into the role that he would yell and throw furniture!
When Tom arrived at boot camp he weighed 190lbs, but the food was so awful, he left weighing 178lbs. His first consumption upon leaving was a diet coke!
Tom wrote the stand-off scene between Horvath and Reiben in ‘Saving Private Ryan.’