Name	Tom Berenger
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	31-May-1949
Place of Birth	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Famous for	Acting

Tom Berenger is an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated American television and motion picture actor.
Berenger was born as Thomas Michael Moore in Chicago, to an Irish Catholic family.
Berenger's father was a printer for the Chicago Sun-Times. Berenger has a sister, Susan. He picked "Berenger" as his professional name, after a school friend, because there was already a "Tom Moore" in the Actors' Equity Association. He graduated from Rich East High School in Park Forest, Illinois, in 1967. Berenger studied journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, but decided to seek an acting career following his graduation. The Tom Berenger Acting Scholarship Fund was established in 1988 by Tom Berenger to award Theatre students for excellence in performance. He worked first in regional theatre and moved to New York City in the 1970s.