Tom Villard Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Tom Villard Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Thomas Louis Villard (November 19, 1953 â€" November 14, 1994) was an

American actor. He is known for his leading role in the 1980s series

We Got It Made, as well as roles in feature films Grease 2, One Crazy

Summer, Heartbreak Ridge, My Girl, and Popcorn.Villard was born in

Waipahu, Hawaii and grew up in Spencerport, New York, the son of Diane

Ruth (MacNaughton), a teacher of the emotionally handicapped, and

Ronald Louis Villard, a photochemical engineer. He attended Allegheny

College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, before moving to New York City to

attend the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and the American

Musical and Dramatic Academy in the early 1970s. In 1980 Villard moved

to Los Angeles and soon started landing roles on television and in

movies. He also continued performing on stage until the end of his

career.Villard appeared throughout his career on television, in

feature films, and on stage around the country. He was featured in

situation comedies, episodic TV series, and had leading roles in lower

and mid-range budgeted features. At the peak of his career Villard was

given featured supporting roles in big-budget studio fare, such as

Clint Eastwood's Heartbreak Ridge, and My Girl (with Dan Aykroyd and

Jamie Lee Curtis). One of his final roles was playing a Bajoran monk

on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.Toward the end of his life, Villard

became one of the few actors in Hollywood in the early 1990s who chose

to be open about his homosexuality, and the challenge of living with

HIV and AIDS. In February 1994, Villard made an unprecedented

appearance on Entertainment Tonight, acknowledging to "...more than 13

million viewers that he was gay, that he had AIDS, and that he needed

some help."
Tom Villard Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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