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Tom Nelis(II)

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Tom Nelis
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Tom Nelis

Film and Television: Recent exciting work includes portraying Howard Hughes in J.J. Abrams new HBO series DUSTER and shooting opposite Paul Mescal in HISTORY OF SOUND. Also: OUT AND ABOUT, GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY, INDECENT, ESTELLA SCROGE, THE TWIN TOWERS, MISSING CHILDREN, WHOPPIE, SMASH, LITTLE KINGS, Conan O'Brien and A GIFTED MAN

Mr Nelis has appeared on Broadway in GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY, INDECENT, THE VISIT, ENRON, THE CAINE MUTINY COURT MARTIAL, and AIDA. Off Broadway he has been seen at The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Signature Theater, Classic Stage Company, Theater for a New Audience / The Royal Shakespeare Company, Cafe La Mama, New York Theater Workshop, Second Stage, Dance Theater Workshop, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Mineta Lane, and Manhattan Theater Club as well as at regional theaters across the U.S..

He has been awarded an Eliot Norton Award for Prospero in The Tempest, an OBIE for Marshall McLuhan in THE MEDIUM, and a Drama League Nomination for Leonard Bernstein in SCORE.

Nelis was a founding member of SITI Company and performed with that ensemble for 25 years. He has toured the U.S. and Europe with both Laurie Anderson and Richard Foreman He earned his MFA at UC San Diego.
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    Known for

    Little Kings (2003)
    Little Kings
    6.3
    • Priest(as Thomas Nelis)
    • 2003
    Josh Holloway in Duster (2025)
    Duster
    7.1
    TV Series
    • Howard Hughes
    Estella Scrooge: A Christmas Carol with a Twist (2020)
    Estella Scrooge: A Christmas Carol with a Twist
    5.1
    • Dedlock
    • 2020
    Indecent (2018)
    Indecent
    7.9
    • Elder Sholem Asch
    • Rudolph Schildkraut
    • Yekel
    • 2018

    Credits

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    • Duster
      • Howard Hughes
      • Released
      • TV Series
      • 2025
    • Apocalyptic Artists Presents: As You Like It
      • Corin
      • Post-production
      • TV Mini Series



    • Great Performances (1971)
      Great Performances
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Mr. Perry
      • 2025
    • Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal in The History of Sound (2025)
      The History of Sound
      6.3
      • Grandfather
      • 2025
    • Out and About (2022)
      Out and About
      7.9
      • Coach Burns
      • 2022
    • Homesick (2022)
      Homesick
      6.6
      Short
      • Man with Ponytail
      • 2022
    • Estella Scrooge: A Christmas Carol with a Twist (2020)
      Estella Scrooge: A Christmas Carol with a Twist
      5.1
      • Dedlock
      • 2020
    • Indecent (2018)
      Indecent
      7.9
      • Elder Sholem Asch
      • Rudolph Schildkraut
      • Yekel
      • 2018
    • Looking Out
      • Phil
      • 2013
    • Anjelica Huston, Debra Messing, Jack Davenport, Christian Borle, Leslie Odom Jr., Jennifer Hudson, Katharine McPhee, Megan Hilty, Jeremy Jordan, Krysta Rodriguez, and Andy Mientus in Smash (2012)
      Smash
      7.7
      TV Series
      • Jimmy
      • 2012
    • Patrick Wilson in A Gifted Man (2011)
      A Gifted Man
      7.0
      TV Series
      • Man at Clinica
      • 2011
    • Little Kings (2003)
      Little Kings
      6.3
      • Priest (as Thomas Nelis)
      • 2003
    • Whoopi Goldberg, Wren T. Brown, Omid Djalili, and Elizabeth Regen in Whoopi (2003)
      Whoopi
      6.5
      TV Series
      • Hotel Guest
      • 2003
    • Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing (1997)
      Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
      6.8
      TV Movie
      • Agent Jones
      • 1997

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    Out and About
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    Out and About

    Personal details

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      • Thomas Nelis
    • Other works
      (March 17 to April 5, 2009) He acted in Charles L. Mee's play, "Under Construction," in a Humana Festival and SITI Company production at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky with Akiko Aizawa, J. Ed Araiza, Leon Ingulsrud, Ellen Lauren, Barney O'Hanlon, Makela Spielman, Samuel Stricklen and Stephen Duff Webber in the cast. Anne Bogart was director.

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