Tom Skerritt; Movies, Age, Net Worth, Wife, Children, Top Gun

Tom Skerritt definitely rings as an illustrious professional acting maestro to his fans and followers. While the long-haul actor is no short of a sublime career, his relationship life hasn’t always been at a constant positive pace.

Bio & Family: Age, Height

Born as Thomas Roy Skerritt on 25 August 1933, the 85-years-of-age actor hails from Detroit, Michigan, the United States. Raised as the youngest of three children, Tom is the son of a businessman father, Roy Skerritt and a homemaker mother, Helen.

Exact 6 feet (1.83 m) tall in height, Tom is a 1951 graduate of Detroit’s Mackenzie High School. Later, he attended Wayne State University before enrolling at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Career, Net Worth

Tom Skerritt summons the commanding net worth of $ 8 Million from his long-lasting acting gigs. His professional big-screen debut came as Sgt. Stan Showalter in the 1962 war film, War Hunt. The same year, Tom joined the cast of ABC’s military TV program Combat! He was part of the show till 1967 and was later seen in the black comedy war flick, MASH in 1970.

Tom’s major breakthrough came as Dallas in the 1979 sci-fi horror movie, Alien. Subsequently, he registered other big movie appearances including in Tom Cruise-starrer action-drama film Top Gun (1986). Tom’s small screen success came with the drama show, Picket Fences where he starred from 1992 to 1996.

Tom Skerritt as Cmdr. Mike ‘Viper’ Metcalf in Top Gun (Picture: IMDB)

One of the most pivotal movies that made him earn a zest income is the 2012 American comedy film, Ted. Tom essayed the character of himself in the picture under American director, Seth MacFarlane. Similarly, the starring roles of the movie were Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Joel McHale, and Giovanni Ribisi.

The movie under a total production cost of $50 million made ten times more at the box-office windows with $549.4 million. Likewise, to cash in the movie brand, its second installment titled Ted 2 was released in 2015.

The veteran actor’s other major movie and TV projects include Up in Smoke (1978), The Rookie (1990), Redemption Road (2010), and The Good Wife (2014).

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Two Time Divorcee Tom Skerritt’s Wife, Children

Unlike his professional career, Tom Skerritt has previously found it quite difficult to smoothly balance his relationship life. The veteran actor holds a stat of three marriages and two divorces up until now.

Tom’s first matrimony was with Charlotte Shanks in 1957. He then welcomed three children: Andy (born 1962), Erin (born 1964) and Matt (born 1969) before parting ways with his wife in 1972. Some five years later in 1977, Tom again shared the wedding vows with Sue Oran. The couple then welcomed a child named Colin Skerritt in 1978 before ending the terms via divorce in 1992.

Tom Skerritt with current wife Julie Tokashiki (Picture: Pinterest)

Currently, Tom is steering his third married life with wife Julie Tokashiki, who walked down the aisle with him in 1998. The pair also co-parents an adopted daughter named Emi.

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Some Interesting Facts About Tom Skerritt

• Before beginning acting career, he served in the United States Air Force for four years.
• Tom’s acting mentor was late writer/director Robert Altman.
• Besides a Primetime Emmy triumph, Tom received two nominations for the Golden Globe Awards in the years 1994 and 1995.
• Apart from busy work-schedules in TV and movies, Tom is founder and chairman of a Seattle-based digital media company named Heyou Media.