Tony's love for acting began at an early age as a child model for JC Penny, K-Mart and Sears.  That evolved into performing many sketch comedies and dramas as a teenager.  He received most of his training from the reputable Act One Studios in Chicago, School for the Arts in Naperville, IL and now Tony Barr's Film Actors Workshop in Los Angeles. 

His theater credits include:  the conflicted grandson, Nick Cristano, in Over the River and Through the Woods, the colorful Schmendiman in Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile, R.P. McMurphy, the rebel rouser, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the suppressed nephew Alan Talbot, in A Man Called Peter.

His film roles include:  a father devastated at the death of his unborn child in The Pregnancy Test (a film he also wrote, directed and produced), a young  man trying to win the love of his childhood sweetheart in Perfekt Love, a paranoid, pretentious office worker in the dark comedy Paper Work and finally as the ambitious hotel manager in Pleasant Prairie.  In two upcoming films, Tony will play a homeless con man in The Affliction and the lead role in The 13th Floor as the overly devoted head janitor. 

Tony credits 3 people for his acting career:  his mother and grandmother who have been incredibly supportive from day one and Jesus Christ who has brought wholeness and purpose into his life.