Editing Tom Hulce (section)

==Career==
===Acting career===
Hulce debuted as an actor in 1974, playing opposite [[Anthony Hopkins]] in ''[[Equus (play)|Equus]]'' on Broadway and in Los Angeles. Throughout the rest of the 1970s and the early 1980s, he worked primarily as a theater actor, taking occasional parts in movies. His first film role was in the [[James Dean]]-influenced film ''[[September 30, 1955]]'' in 1977. His next movie role was as freshman college student Larry "Pinto" Kroger in the classic comedy ''[[Animal House]]'' (1978). In 1983, he played a gunshot victim in the television show ''[[St. Elsewhere]].''

In the early 1980s, Hulce was chosen over intense competition (including [[David Bowie]], [[Mikhail Baryshnikov]],<ref name="people.com"/> [[Mark Hamill]],<ref>{{cite news|first=Tara|last=Brady|title=Mark Hamill: 'If I had to climb a Skellig, I was staying at the top'|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/mark-hamill-if-i-had-to-climb-a-skellig-i-was-staying-at-the-top-1.3301093|date=November 25, 2017|access-date=December 6, 2018}}</ref> and [[Kenneth Branagh]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Branagh|first=Kenneth|author-link=Kenneth Branagh|title=Beginning|year=1990|publisher=Norton|isbn=978-0-393-02862-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/beginning00bran/page/105 105–109]|location=New York|oclc=20669813|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/beginning00bran/page/105}}</ref>) to play the role of [[Mozart]] in director [[Miloš Forman]]'s [[Amadeus (film)|film version]] of [[Peter Shaffer]]'s ''[[Amadeus (play)|play]]''. In 1985, he was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] for his performance in ''Amadeus'', losing to his co-star, [[F. Murray Abraham]]. In his acceptance speech, Abraham paid tribute to his co-star, saying, "There's only one thing missing for me tonight, and that is to have Tom Hulce standing by my side."

[[File:Tom Hulce and Faye Dunaway.jpg|thumb|right|Hulce with [[Faye Dunaway]] at the [[42nd Golden Globe Awards]], January 1985]]
In 1989, he received his second Best Actor [[Golden Globe Award]] nomination for a critically acclaimed performance<ref>{{cite web |author=amctv.com |url=http://movies.amctv.com/movie/14251/Dominick-and-Eugene/review |title=AMC Movie Guide |publisher=Movies.amctv.com |access-date=December 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224215845/http://movies.amctv.com/movie/14251/Dominick-and-Eugene/review |archive-date=February 24, 2012 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> as an intellectually-challenged garbage-collector in the 1988 movie ''[[Dominick and Eugene]].'' He played supporting roles in ''[[Parenthood (1989 film)|Parenthood]]'' (1989), ''[[Fearless (1993 film)|Fearless]]'' (1993) and ''[[Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film)|Mary Shelley's Frankenstein]]'' (1994). In 1988, he played the title part in the British–Dutch movie ''[[Shadow Man (1988 film)|Shadow Man]],'' directed by the Polish director [[Piotr Andrejew]].

In 1990, he was nominated for his first [[Emmy Award]] for his performance as the 1960s [[civil rights]] activist [[Michael Schwerner]] in the 1990 [[TV-movie]] ''[[Murder in Mississippi (film)|Murder in Mississippi]].'' He starred as [[Joseph Stalin]]'s [[projectionist]] in Russian director [[Andrei Konchalovsky]]'s 1991 film ''[[The Inner Circle (1991 film)|The Inner Circle]].'' In 1996, he won an [[Emmy Award]] for his role as a pediatrician in a television-movie version of the [[Wendy Wasserstein]] play ''[[The Heidi Chronicles]],'' starring [[Jamie Lee Curtis]]. Also that year, he was cast in Disney's animated film adaptation of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]],'' providing the speaking and singing [[voice actor|voice]] of the protagonist [[Quasimodo (Disney)|Quasimodo]]. Although Hulce largely retired from acting in the mid-1990s, he had [[bit part]]s in the movies ''[[Stranger than Fiction (2006 film)|Stranger Than Fiction]]'' (2006) and ''[[Jumper (2008 film)|Jumper]]'' (2008).

Hulce remained active in theater throughout his entire acting career. In addition to ''[[Equus (play)|Equus]],'' he appeared in Broadway productions of ''[[A Memory of Two Mondays]]'' and ''[[A Few Good Men (play)|A Few Good Men]],'' for which he was a [[Tony Award]] nominee in 1990. In the mid-1980s, he appeared in two different productions of playwright [[Larry Kramer]]'s early AIDS-era drama ''[[The Normal Heart]].''<ref>[http://www.tomhulcenewsletter.be/THN2/pagephoto/gaytimes.htm The Heart of the Matter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091228152803/http://www.tomhulcenewsletter.be/THN2/pagephoto/gaytimes.htm |date=December 28, 2009 }} ''Gay Times'', July 1986</ref> In 1992, he starred in a [[Shakespeare Theatre Company]] production of ''[[Hamlet]].''<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-1036255.html "Hamlet," Hulce & the Issue of Character] ''The Washington Post'', November 23, 1992</ref> His [[Regional theatre in the United States|regional theatre]] credits include ''[[Eastern Standard]]'' at the [[Seattle Repertory Theatre]] and ''[[Nothing Sacred (play)|Nothing Sacred]]'' at the [[Mark Taper Forum]], both in 1988.<ref name=regional>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-10-16-ca-6588-story.html "Regional Theater Finds a Winner: 'Nothing Sacred' Is the Play of the Year Although It Never Received the Broadway Stamp of Approval"]. ''[[Los Angeles Times]],'' October 16, 1988.</ref>

He retired from acting in the mid-1990s to focus on stage directing and producing.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Blankenship |first1=Mark |title=Producer Hulce springs to new Rialto role |url=https://variety.com/2006/legit/news/producer-hulce-springs-to-new-rialto-role-1117954888/ |work=Variety |date=December 3, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307061531/https://variety.com/2006/legit/news/producer-hulce-springs-to-new-rialto-role-1117954888/ |archive-date=March 7, 2021}}</ref> In 2023, Hulce made a brief return to acting by reprising the role of Quasimodo in the live-action/animated short ''[[Once Upon a Studio]]''.<ref>[https://comicbook.com/anime/news/once-upon-a-studio-heres-all-the-actors-who-turned-up-for-disneys-100th-anniversary-celebration/ Once Upon a Studio: Here's All the Actors Who Turned Up for Disney's 100th Anniversary Celebration], Comicbook.com, October 16, 2023.</ref><ref>[https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Tom-Hulce/ Behind the Voice Actors: Tom Hulce] Behind the Voice Actors. Retrieved November 7, 2023</ref>

===Career as producer===
Among Hulce's major projects are the six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of [[John Irving]]'s ''[[The Cider House Rules]]''; and ''[[Talking Heads (play)|Talking Heads]]'', a festival of [[Alan Bennett]]'s one-man plays that won six [[Obie Award]]s, a [[Drama Desk Award]], a special [[Outer Critics Circle Award]], and a [[New York Drama Critics' Circle]] Award for Best Foreign Play.<ref>{{cite web|title=Talking Heads, Off-Broadway's Acclaimed Alan Bennett Fest, Ends Sept. 7|author=Jones, Kenneth|date=August 12, 2003|url=http://www.playbill.com/article/talking-heads-off-broadways-acclaimed-alan-bennett-fest-ends-sept-7-com-114785|work=Playbill}}</ref> He also headed ''10 Million Miles'', a musical project by [[Keith Bunin]] and [[Grammy Award]]-nominated singer-songwriter [[Patty Griffin]], that premiered in Spring 2007 at the [[Atlantic Theater Company]].

Hulce was a lead producer of the Broadway hit ''[[Spring Awakening (musical)|Spring Awakening]]'', which won eight [[Tony Awards]] in 2007, including one for Best Musical. He is also a lead producer of the stage adaptation of the [[Green Day]] album ''[[American Idiot]]''. The musical had its world premiere in Berkeley, California, at the [[Berkeley Repertory Theatre]] in 2009 and opened on Broadway in April 2010. In 2017 he began work as a producer on the musical ''[[Ain't Too Proud]]'', which received 11 Tony Award nominations in 2019. He also produced the 2004 movie ''[[A Home at the End of the World (film)|A Home at the End of the World]]'', based upon [[Michael Cunningham]]'s novel.