Tom Sizemore
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Tom Sizemore (born September 29, 1961) is an American film and television actor.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Sizemore attended Wayne State University and earned a Master's Degree in theater from Temple University in 1986. He subsequently moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. One of his first film roles was in Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July in 1989,his other film rolls include Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991), True Romance (1993) and Natural Born Killers (1994). A succession of well-received supporting parts followed. His first major leading role was in 1997's The Relic.
Sizemore continued to play leading and character parts in many films, notably Saving Private Ryan, HBO's Witness Protection, Pearl Harbor, and Black Hawk Down.
In 2002, Sizemore starred in the well-reviewed but short-lived television drama series Robbery Homicide Division. It was cancelled mid-way through its first season.
In 2004, he starred in the movie Paparazzi.
Sizemore, who had long battled drug addiction, was convicted in 2003 of assault and battery against his girlfriend, Heidi Fleiss. On February 10, 2005 he was jailed as a result of failing a drugs test that was part of an agreement by which he had secured bail. Sizemore has been sentenced to 17 months in jail and four months in drug treatment for repeatedly failing drug tests while on probation on March 25th, 2005.
Jun 3, 2005 Actor Tom Sizemore filed a petition to throw out his conviction of domestic violence against former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.
Sizemore accuses Fleiss of faking a picture of her bruises submitted as evidence during the April 2003 trial. Fleiss testified the photo was taken by a friend named Tara Dabrizzi who left the next day to visit her ailing mother in another country.
Dabrizzi never took the stand and Sizemore's attorneys say they were unable to locate anyone with that name. Fleiss, Sizemore's ex-girlfriend, allegedly contradicted herself in a civil trial by saying she didn't know who snapped the photo, according to the Superior Court petition.