Tom Fontana Bio-Wiki, Age, Wife, Family, Son, Net worth, Oz Tattoo, Oz, Movies and TV shows

Who is Tom Fontana? Tom Fontana Biography and Wiki

Tom Fontana is an accomplished American writer and producer who has won three Emmy Awards under his belt. Moreover, he has won four Peabody Awards, three Writers’ Guild Awards, and the Cable Ace Award. He is well-known for being the writer and creator for HBO drama series Oz.

Furthermore, he has also worked on NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Street. He is one of many who doesn’t use a computer to write his scripts instead he uses a yellow legal pad.

Tom Fontana Age and Birthday

Tom Fontana was born on 12th September 1951, in Buffalo, New York, in the United States. He is 68 years old as of 2019. Fontana celebrates his birthday on September 12 every year. He will be 69 years old on 12th September 2020.

Tom Fontana Height and Weight

Fontana appears to be quite tall in stature if his photos, relative to his surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding his actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We are keeping tabs and will update this information once it is out.

Tom Fontana Education

For the educational background, he attended Cathedral School, Canisius High School, later enrolled in Buffalo State College. He had a job at Studio Arena Theater where he played numerous roles he left to New York in 1973.

At the age of 9, he had already written a couple of plays, and some of his plays been performed by neighborhood kids. Tom made his first stage performance in college under George Bernard Show’s production in the play Saint Joan directed by his influencer Warren Enters.

Tom Fontana Family

Fontana was born in Buffalo, NY, and spent most of his childhood there with his family and siblings. All of his childhood, he had family and friends to accompany him and also provided the mental and emotional support. Tom is the fourth of five children in an Italian-American family. He is also a cousin of actress Patti LuPone.

Tom Fontana Wife | Married

Fontana was a husband to the late American actress Sagan Lewis whom they had been married for over twelve years. The pair got married for the first time on December 18, 1982, at a ceremony held at the Santa Monica home of Bruce Paltrow and his wife, actress Blythe Danner. After eleven years, the couple divorced, following the divorce, Tom’s wife moved Maui.

They had one child, a son named Jade Scott Lewis, who was born three years after the divorce. Nevertheless, Sagan and Fontana later reconciled and Lewis came back to New York. He proposed to her over the Christmas holiday in 2014. Unfortunately, Tom lost his wife in 2016 due to cancer.

Tom Fontana Net worth

Fontana has enjoyed a long career in the entertainment industry spanning four decades. Through proceeds from his work as a writer and producer, he has been able to accumulate a huge fortune. Tom is estimated to have a net worth $5 million.

Tom Fontana Facts and Body Measurements

Here are some interesting facts you don’t want to miss about Tom Fontana.

• Full Name: Tom Fontana
• Age/ How Old?: 68 years old as of 2019

≥ Date of Birth: September 12, 1951
• Place of Birth: Buffalo, NY, USA
• Education‎: Buffalo State College.

» Birthday: 12th September
» Nationality: American

≥ Father’s Name: Mr. Fontana
≥ Mother’s Name: Mrs. Fontana
» Siblings: 4
» Married?: Single

• Children/ Kids: 1
• Height/ How tall?: Not Available
≥ Weight: Not Available

• Profession: Screenwriter, Playwright, and Producer
• Net worth: $5 million

Tom Fontana Producer

He began working as a producer and as a writer in the late 1980s when he offered an opportunity to worked with the late Bruce Paltrow who was launching St. Elsewhere on NBC.

Fontana composed the HBO movie Strip Search, coordinated by Sidney Lumet, just as contributing two pieces to the September 11 unique, America: A Tribute to Heroes. He was the official maker of American Tragedy for CBS, Shot in the Heart for HBO Films, the autonomous film Jean and the narrative The Press Secretary for PBS.

Furthermore, he additionally directed classical drama TV series Borgia for the French premium-pay channel Canal+, produced by Atlantique Productions and EOS Entertainment. The show is about a Borgia family who rose to dominance and sequent control of the Vatican during the revitalization.

Similarly, he was joined by Will Rokos on directing the TV series Copper which featured actors like Kyle Schmid, Anastasia Griffith, and Franka Potente. The series recounts the 1860s police procedural set in the turbulent Five Points neighborhood of New York. What’s more, Tom has also directed and produced TV shows like The Bedford Diaries, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Philanthropist, The Beat, and The Jury.

Tom Fontana Oz

Tom Fontana is recognized for distinctive worked in one HBO hit series ”Oz”. The series lasted for six good seasons. The show premiered on July 12, 1997, the last episode aired on February 23, 2003.

Oz features characters such as Ernie Hudson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Meloni, Kirk Acevedo, Harold Perrineau, J. K. Simmons, Lee Tergesen, Dean Winters, Rita Moreno. The series’s name Oz is the nickname for the Oswald State Correctional Facility, formerly Oswald State Penitentiary, a fictional level 4 maximum-security state prison.

In this experimental unit of the prison, unit manager Tim McManus emphasizes rehabilitation and learning responsibility during incarceration, rather than carrying out purely punitive measures.

Emerald City is an extremely controlled environment, with a carefully managed balance of members from each racial and social group, intended to ease tensions among these various factions

Under McManus and Warden Leo Glynn, all inmates in “Em City” struggle to fulfill their own needs. Some fight for power – either over the drug trade or over other inmate factions and individuals

Tom Fontana Oz Tattoo

Tom Fontana Writer

Apart from being a writer in the film industry, Tom has also contributed his writing skills in some of the notable magazines including TV Guide, Esquire, and of course The New York Times.

To add to that, he has been a teacher in some of the best learning institutes in numerous states like Columbia, Rutgers and the State University College at Buffalo, his former college, where he won the Distinguished Alumni Award and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters.

Tom Fontana Recognition

He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Producers Guild of America, and the WGA, East, from which he received the Evelyn F. Burkey Award for lifetime achievement. (Source of this paragraph: Biography published in an awards program.)

Above that, Fontana served as vice-president of the Writers Guild of America, East from 2005–2007. He is currently President of the WGAE Foundation and serves on the boards of The Acting Company, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, DEAL, The New York City Police Museum, Stockings With Care, among others.

Tom Fontana Actor

He has appeared in diverse plays produced in New York City his hometown as well as the San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Buffalo Studio Arena Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and McCarter Theatre Company.

The character Joe Fontana played by Dennis Farina in the TV show Law & Order was named for Tom Fontana, who became one of the best friends to Law & Order creator Dick Wolf while working as writers in the same building, at the same time, on the series St. Elsewhere (Fontana) and Hill Street Blues (Wolf).

Tom Fontana Awards

Fontana has received numerous awards for his outstanding performance and great outcome from his film and other personal duties. He has won three Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, three Writers’ Guild Awards.

Also, four Television Critics Association Awards, the Cable Ace Award, the Humanitas Prize, an Edgar Award, and the first prize at the Cinéma Tout Ecran Festival in Switzerland. In 2003, Fontana was the recipient of the Austin Film Festival’s Outstanding Television Writer Award.