Tom Pelphrey is an American actor. Tom was born and raised in New Jersey. He grew up in the town of Howell and attended the Fine and Performing Arts Center at Howell High school. He received a BFA in Acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University where he also had the opportunity to study Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre in London, England.

Tom's first professional job was on the long running CBS daytime show, Guiding Light. In two and a half years on the show he was nominated for four consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards; he won twice. (2006, 2008) Since then he has worked in theater, television, and independent film. His first lead role in a film was playing the crystal meth addict David in Junction alongside Michael O'Keefe, David Zayas and Anthony Rapp. That led to lead roles in other features including the romantic comedy, Excuse Me for Living, where he worked with Jerry Stiller, Christopher Lloyd, Dick Cavett, and Robert Vaughn. He eventually became a series regular on the hit Cinemax show "Banshee" playing ex neo-nazi Kurt Bunker.

Tom is a founding member and the current Artistic Director of the Apothecary Theatre Company; a NYC based not-for-profit that develops and produces world premieres of new plays by up and coming playwrights. He made his Broadway debut in 2012 as Judy Garland's last husband, Mickey Deans, in the critically acclaimed "End of the Rainbow", directed by Tony Award winner Terry Johnson.

Tom Pelphrey (* 28. Juli 1982 in Howell, New Jersey) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler. Er ist seit 2004 als Schauspieler aktiv und übernahm zunächst die Rolle des Jonathan Randall in der Seifenoper Springfield Story, die er bis 2009 spielte. Auch in der Seifenoper Jung und Leidenschaftlich – Wie das Leben so spielt wirkte er mit. Für seine Darstellung in erstgenannter Serie gewann er zwei Emmy Awards in der Kategorie Outstanding Younger Actor. Daneben übernahm Pelphrey auch Gastrollen in Serien wie Numbers – Die Logik des Verbrechens, Ghost Whisperer – Stimmen aus dem Jenseits, CSI: Miami und Good Wife. 2015 übernahm er die Rolle des Kurt Bunker in der Serie Banshee – Small Town. Big Secrets., die er bis 2016 spielte.

Von 2017 bis 2018 war er als Ward Meachum in einer Hauptrolle in der Netflix-Serie Marvel’s Iron Fist zu sehen. 2020 übernahm er mit Beginn der dritten Staffel der Netflix-Originalserie Ozark die Rolle des Ben Davis.