American actor Tom Hulce was BOTD in 1953. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he studied drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts, before moving to New York City to pursue acting. He made his Broadway debut in 1975 playing opposite Anthony Hopkins in Peter Schaffer‘s psychodrama Equus, and later co-starred in Aaron Sorkin’s military drama A Few Good Men. After occasional roles in movies (including frat house comedy Animal House), he was cast as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Miloš Forman’s film Amadeus, based on Schaffer’s play. A critical and commercial success, the film won the Oscar for Best Picture, and earned Hulce a Best Actor nomination, losing to his co-star F. Murray Abraham. His post-Amadeus film career was relatively sparse, with supporting roles in Parenthood, Fearless and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and voiced Quasimodo in the animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He played murdered civil rights activist Mickey Schwerner in the 1990 TV film Murder in Mississippi and the gay best friend in the TV adaptation of Wendy Wasserstein‘s play The Heidi Chronicles, which won him an Emmy Award. After retiring from acting, he became a producer, working on 2001 film adaptation of Michael Cunningham‘s novel A Home at the End of the World and winning a Tony Award in 2007 as co-producer of the rock musical Spring Awakening. Openly gay since forever, he lives in Washington. His relationship status is unknown.