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Production Team


	Tom Tangen

	Co-Executive Producer

Born in Minnesota and raised on a horse farm in rural Wisconsin, actor/producer Tom Tangen began his career back on a spring day in 1984 when a radio station in Minneapolis, Minnesota, announced an open casting call for the later-renowned, Academy Award-winning film, Purple Rain, starring musical artist Prince. Out of more than 6,000 aspiring actors that auditioned, two were hand-chosen by Prince, and among them, Tom Tangen.

Tangen's charisma caught the attention of producers Robert Cavallo, Steven Fargnoli and Joseph Ruffalo. At the end of filming, the trio encouraged Tangen to leave his Wisconsin home and attend an audition for their next project back in Los Angeles.

Over the next four years, this young actor became so committed to immortalizing himself on the silver screen that he appeared in more than 25 films including Real Genius, Teen Wolf, Back to the Future and Three Amigos! Tangen left Hollywood for a time and when he returned, he has appeared in feature films such as Donnie Darko, Magnolia, Erin Brockovich, Monkeybone, The Story of Us, The Limey and For Love of the Game, to name a few. In the brief time since his return, Tangen has produced numerous award-winning independent films and television pilots. He is the entertainment reporter for The Hollywood Times, and even created his own column, "Tinseltown Tips from Tom," for bi-monthly magazines The Caster and Power Agent.

Tangen feels his greatest achievement since his return is the creation of the nonprofit, charity-driven, actors networking group known as the Los Angeles Actors Coalition (LAAC), which he founded in 1998. The organization's primary focus is to help actors network themselves within the film and television industry, but the group doesn't just stop there. The LAAC supplies manpower and raises funds for Aids Project Los Angeles, A World Fit for Kids, Students for a Better Tomorrow, City of Hope Children's Hospital, and a number of other charities. The LAAC has also sent volunteers to all of the major film festivals since 1999. As of 2002, the organization went corporate and achieved nonprofit status.

Tangen's biggest achievement is the development of Interviews of a Lifetime with Tom Tangen, the television show that has come of his collection of over 2,000 celebrity interviews. The show recently received its first award from the Southern California Motion Picture Council, the Emerald Star Award for outstanding contributions and the promotion of family values in television, and has been nominated for an Aurora Award.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/1364969.stm