Tom Wiggin was born on July 6,1955 and is an American actor, writer, producer and director.
18 Facts About Tom Wiggin
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Tom Wiggin is best known for creating the role of nefarious businessman Kirk Anderson on the long-running soap opera As the World Turns.
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Tom Wiggin began acting in community theater at age eight.
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Tom Wiggin graduated from St Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, where he continued to act while playing three varsity sports.
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Tom Wiggin attended Columbia University in New York for three semesters, then left to pursue his acting career.
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Tom Wiggin has acted professionally on stage, TV and in films.
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Tom Wiggin has written for two soap operas and had one screenplay optioned.
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Tom Wiggin landed the role of Danny Zuko in a national tour of Grease and eventually joined the Broadway cast.
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Tom Wiggin left Grease to star in an Off Broadway production of the British play 'Class Enemy' during which he was cast as Mike, the ex-quarterback cutter, in the TV series Breaking Away.
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Tom Wiggin went on to contract roles on two soap operas, Texas and Another World, acting with Morgan Freeman and Joe Morton.
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Tom Wiggin returned to New York in 1988 when he was cast in As the World Turns.
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Tom Wiggin had non-contract roles on All My Children, and Guiding Light.
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Tom Wiggin played Warden Whitakker in Iron Jawed Angels starring Hilary Swank, Whitey Ford in the mini series The Bronx Is Burning, starring John Turturro and he appeared again on Broadway, starring with Farrah Fawcett in Bobbi Boland, but the show closed in previews.
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Tom Wiggin played Lawrence Decker, a non-contract role on Guiding Light shortly before it went dark.
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Tom Wiggin is currently co-directing a feature film on book bans called "Banned Together" scheduled for a 2024 release.
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Tom Wiggin has been nominated for two Soap Opera Digest awards.
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Tom Wiggin was nominated again in 1996 for Outstanding Male Scene Stealer.
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Tom Wiggin remarried in 2010 to Jennifer Dumas, a theater and film producer.