To all the roles I’ve loved before:
On TV two of my favorite roles were two real life icons who my mother absolutely loved: Phil Donahue (a couple of scenes with Cate Blanchett, no big deal) in Mrs. America and Frank Sinatra on American Horror Story. (I think they hired me because of my blue eyes and then they digitally enhanced my blue eyes so…TV.) My longest running TV role is a character my mother definitely would NOT have loved: Police Officer Tim Wilson, head of the local chapter of The Purifiers —on season 2 of The Gifted. I never thought about it this way, but I guess I was a Marvel Villain. A recurring guest star Marvel Villain. That’s pretty cool.
Tom O’Keefe, Reel, 2026
On film, I loved playing Bobby in Craig Brewer’s Song Sung Blue, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson. It’s a fantastic movie made by wonderful people ABOUT wonderful people. It’s about music and love and life and family and dreams and yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you are thinking, but it’s true. It’s true. And it’s great. It’s also the first time I was actually punched in the face on film. I’d gladly let the wonderful Jim Belushi do it again, anytime.
Song Sung Blue (2025)
Keep an eye out for two films set to be released later this year: Kerry Ann Enright’s Tiger with Kevin Corrigan and Jay Craven’s adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara with Xander Berkeley, Tantoo Cardinal, and GaryFarmer. I play a truly detestable character in one, and a decent man down on his luck in the other. After you watch the films, you can decide which is which.
On stage, my favorite roles include Claudius and Cauchon in Bedlam’s Off-Broadway productions of Hamlet and St. Joan, The Hostage in The Coop’s Off-Broadway production of Terra Firma, and Henry Bolingbrooke opposite Rocco Sisto’s fantastic Richard in Shakespeare & Company’s production of Richard II.
All You Need Is Blood Trailer (2024)
And if we’re talking film favorites, I have to mention the ridiculously great time I had playing zombie dad Walter in 2024’s wild indie horror rom/com All You Need is Blood with Mena Survari and Logan Riley Bruner.
If you wanna hear me talk about some of my work (‘cause really, who doesn’t want to listen to an actor talk about their work?) I had the pleasure of being interviewed by the amazing and talented Gary Farmer for Film Talk Weekly.
Lawyer turned successful actor Tom O'Keefe talks with Gary Farmer about on-set stories, acting experience, teaching the next generation, raunchy on-stage performances, and more on this episode of Film Talk Weekly.