Thomas Calabro was born in Brooklyn on February 3, 1959. He studied at Stuyvesant High School and at the Actors Studio in Manhattan. While at Fordham University, Calabro got his first big break when classmate Denzel Washington had to drop out of the school production of A Midsummer’s Night Dream and Calabro took over the lead role of Oberon.

His first TV series was “Dream Street� on NBC (1989 — a spinoff of “Beverly Hills 90210�). Some of his other TV credits include starring roles in the movies Stolen Innocence; Sleep, Baby, Sleep; LA Johns, Columbo (with Peter Falk) and the mini-series Vendetta. He played ambitious schemer Michael Mancini in the hit Fox series “Melrose Place.�

At the end of 1999 he completed three more movies for TV: Ice Angel, Best Actress (E! channel’s first movie), and They Nest! In 2000 he added the feature film, Face to Face to his resumé, a family comedy written by another Brooklynite, Scott Baio. He also completed a one-hour dramedy, “Hard Knox,� a moonlighting Kung-fu series.

Calabro made his TV directorial debut with an episode of “Melrose Place� in the fourth season and continued to direct several episodes until the end of the run. He was well-qualified for this work as he was the one and only star of the series to stick from its first episode (July 8, 1992) to its last (May 24, 1999), and has reprised the role in a remake of the show that began in 2009.

In his career as a director he also directed the play Orphans, which was performed at various homeless and rehabilitation shelters in New York.

Calabro’s other movie credits include Out of the Darkness, Ladykillers, Dream Street, Law and Order and Ned and Stacey.

Calabro’s New York Theater credits include the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Wild Blue. Sweet Basil at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Open Admissions at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT.

On the Los Angeles theater scene Calabro has starred in Gravity Shoes at the Hudson Theater in LA. He also directed Thespians and Troglodytes at that same theater.

Calabro is a member of New York’s Actor’s Studio and the Circle Repertory Lab. We can look forward to some great accomplishments by this Brooklyn-born showbiz celebrity in his acting, directing and whatever may come.

— Vernon Parker

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