Tommy Wiseau

Tommy Wiseau () is an American actor and filmmaker. He produced, directed, and starred in the 2003 film The Room, which has been described by many critics as one of the worst movies ever made and has gained cult film status. He also directed the 2004 documentary Homeless in America and the 2015 sitcom The Neighbors. Many details about Wiseau's personal life (including his nationality, age and background) remain unverified, and as such have been the subject of intense fan speculation and various conflicting reports. The 2013 non-fiction book, The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, by Greg Sestero, as well as its 2017 film adaptation, chronicle the making of The Room and Wiseau's life behind the scenes of the film. 2Biography 3Early life Wiseau is secretive about his early life. In various interviews, he has claimed to have lived in France "a long time ago"; asserted that he grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana; and described having "an entire family" in Chalmette, Louisiana. In interviews following the release of The Room in 2003, Wiseau gave an age which would indicate he was born in 1968 or 1969, but actor Greg Sestero claims in his 2013 memoir, The Disaster Artist, that his brother's girlfriend obtained copies of Wiseau's U.S. immigration papers and found that Wiseau was born "much earlier" than he claimed, in an Eastern Bloc country in the 1950s. In his 2016 documentary, Room Full of Spoons, Rick Harper claims to have researched Wiseau's background and concluded that he is Polish and originally from the city of Poznań. Wiseau confirmed publicly for the first time in November 2017 that he is "originally from Europe"; elaborating, he said, "Long story short, I grew up in Europe a long time ago, but I'm American and very proud of it." In a December 2017 interview with Howard Stern, he claimed to speak French and said he is a Catholi