Thomas "Tom" Helmut Beck is a German actor, singer, and entrepreneur.
Early life
Beck finished high school in Neues Gymnasium Nürnberg. He then attended the Bavarian Theatre Academy in Munich, under the Musical degree programme, where he was trained musically and in dancing, and finished with his thesis, Beck-Stage.
Career
Beck played and sang in two bands; he left King Schlayer, his second, in 2001 after the second year. After receiving his award at the National Singing Competition in 2001, Beck was engaged as a performer in musicals between 2005 and 2007. Since 2004 he appeared in various television productions. From autumn 2008 to the end of 2013, Beck was seen in the action seriesAlarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei alongside Erdoğan Atalay as Kriminallhauptkommissar Ben Jäger. On September 28, 2012, Beck announced his exit from the series at the Bülent Ceylan Show. The last episode with Beck aired in December, 2013. On March 11, 2011, his first single Sexy was released, which went two weeks later directly in No. 50 in the singles charts. On March 25, 2011, Beck released his first album Superficial Animal, which debuted at number 36 of the German album charts. On October 5, 2012, he released his second studio album, Americanized. Since his work for Cobra 11, Beck lives in Cologne. In the summer of 2013, Tom Beck took part in the game show Schlag the Star and won. In October 2013 he participated in the TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge, finishing in 4th place. In February 2014, he also took part in the TV show TV total PokerStars.de Nacht. In 2015, he played in the Sat.1 television movie Einstein, co-starring with Annika Ernst in the male lead role of police adviser Felix Winterberg. From January 2017 to March 2019, he has also taken over the role in the television series of the same name. In 2016 he participated in the TV show Grill the Henssler. In the game show Schlag the Star he prevailed against Daniel Aminati and won 100,000 euros. In 2020 he won the second season of „The Masked Singer“ Germany as the Sloth.
Entrepreneur
Beck is co-owner of the marketing and management company Check One Two Perfect GmbH, which, in addition to him, also manages YouTuber Bianca Heinicke and Julian Claßen. Beck came under criticism in February 2015 as manager of the German YouTube - Star Bianca Heinicke. In one of her videos, Heinicke recommended a watch for around 250 EUR. However, she had concealed the fact that she made a profit via the Affiliate web link she offered under her video. Beck was accused by german TV Host Jan Böhmermann of operating a business model with "mixture of the coolness of QVC combined with the seriousness and transparency of 9Live". The product placements would allow "13-year-olds to pay for his future pension".
Personal life
Since 2015, he has been dating with actress Chryssanthi Kavazi; in August 2018, they married. The people say that they should soon be parents. This came true on November 11, 2019. Tom and Chryssanthi were blessed with a beautiful baby boy. Tom also released a song for his child on January 8, called 'Piguine'.
