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Tommy A. Savas (born December 20, 1984) is an American actor and producer. He is known for Roger Dodger (2002), Seven Days (2007), Extra Butter, Please (2011).

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Tommy A. Savas
Born	(1984-12-20) December 20, 1984 (age 37) Harlem, New York, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001–present

Early life

Savas was born in Harlem, New York, United States. He was raised in Cresskill, New Jersey,[1] the youngest of 4 children where, as a child, he showed a strong interest in acting and theatre.[2] His grandfather fought in WWII.[3]

By the age of six, he had studied improv and acting with Susan Dias Karnovsky and appeared in commercials and HBO and PBS children’s productions. Between school work and soccer games, Tommy continued to study privately with Joseph Daly, and at HB Studios in New York under Trudi Stible.^{[citation needed]}

He spent time between New York and Los Angeles where he studied with Robert Lyons and Lynette McNeil, and had comedy training with Shari Shaw. Savas continued to hone his acting skills appearing in local theatre productions and in sketch comedy at the HA! Comedy Club in New York.^{[citation needed]}

Career

His big break came at age 15 when he was selected out of 15,000 actors to play the role of Xavier, AJ Soprano’s high school friend in the renowned HBO series, The Sopranos.[2] After The Sopranos, Savas landed a guest starring role in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, as well as a part in the Tribeca Film Festival award-winning film Roger Dodger.[4]

After graduating from high school, Savas moved out to Los Angeles[2] to pursue his already burgeoning career and was quickly picked up to guest star in Cold Case, Without a Trace, Shark, The New Adventures of Old Christine, General Hospital, and many others.[5] He can also be seen in many national commercials such as Gillette, Nesquik, Guitar Hero, Pizza Hut, and Subway.[6][7]

Savas formed Reckless Tortuga with a small group of friends in 2009 as a means of continually creating things and working even if they weren’t booking work professionally. Reckless Tortuga became a popular YouTube web-based comedy channel, where he has a recurring role as Damian in the webseries, The Online Gamer.[8]

In 2014, Savas played Cossetti in Michael Bay's post-apocalyptic TV Series The Last Ship.[9] He also played series regular Dashiell Greer in Katherine Heigl's NBC drama, State of Affairs, which premiered November 2014.[10]

In 2015, Savas co-wrote and starred in the dark comedy Bad Roomies alongside Patrick Renna.[2] The movie was partially funded by Kickstarter ($75,000 was raised).[4]

In 2016, Savas was cast as Reggie in the ABC comedy pilot 'The Fluffy Shop', co-written by and starring Gabriel Iglesias.[11]

Savas jokingly stated that Shia Lebouf stole his career after they screen tested against each other for the role of a young Robert Downey Jr. in the movie A Guide to Recognizing your Saints and Lebouf got the part.[12]

Personal life

Savas occasionally works as a substitute teacher and has stated that if acting fell through, he would love to be a teacher.[3]

Gary Oldman is an actor that Savas admires for his ability to play many different characters.[3]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Seven Days	Max	Short Movie
2009	Poolside	Doug	Short Movie
2015	Bad Roomies	Ray (Raymond)	movie
2017	It Happened One Valentine's	Matty Sellers	Direct-to-video film
2021	Luv U Cuz	Producer	Animated Short Movie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	The Sopranos	Xavier	2 Episodes
2002	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Sanjeev	Episode: Deception
2004	Arrested Development	Bully	Episode: Beef Consomme
2006	Cold Case	Tommy Dicenzio	Episode:"Frank’s Best"
2006	The New Adventures of Old Christine	Mark	Episode: Open Water
2007	Shark	Kenny Leary	Episode: Backfire
2008	General Hospital	Young Sonny	2 episodes
2009	Raising the Bar	Owen Clark	Episode: The Curious Case of Kellerman's Button
2010	CSI: NY	Rick Contoursi	Episode: Tales from the Undercard
2010	Justified	Ronson	Episode: Fathers and Sons
2011	House	Cruz	Episode: Last Temptation
2011	Prime Suspect	Bugsy	Episode: Shame
2012	Castle	Marcus Hiatt	Episode: An Embarrassment of Bitches
2009-2012	Psycho Girlfriend	Seth	21 Episodes
2012	Hollywood Heights	Ray	9 Episodes
2011-2012	Extra Butter, Please	Various	48 Episodes
2013	The Online Gamer	Damien/Tirion Fordring	16 Episodes
2014-2018	The Last Ship	Cossetti
2014-2015	State of Affairs	Dashiell Greer
2017	Hell's Kitchen	Himself	Episode: "Fusion/Confusion"
2018	9-1-1	Daniel	Episode: "Stuck"
2019	Dirty John	Max	Episode: "This Young Woman Fought Like Hell"

References

External links

• Tommy Savas at IMDb

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