Tom attended Moorepark College until his junior year, then transferred into UCLA's theater program. It wasn't long before others began to notice Tom's talent, in 1997 Tom won the Carol Burnett Award and Scholarship with the following performance.

"He sang "Fatty" from Gary Udell's play "Angel," a serenade to an inflatable doll. Wearing thick, black-rimmed '50s glasses and Converse sneaker tap shoes, he danced the evening away until his nerdy female neighbor appeared in a display of exuberant dork-love nervousness. The two ended the scene on their way to a Taco Bell date, but not until Lenk had the opportunity to sing "Real Live Girl" from the musical "All American" by Strouse and Adams."

Tom graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from UCLA.

Since graduating, Tom has had a wide variety of acting jobs, be they in film, on television, or on stage. Most notably, Tom toured with the European Cast of Grease playing the role of Doody. Acting and singing are not Tom's only talents, he is also a playwright, having written three plays to date. Tom recently devoted a lot of his time to making wisecracks about Star Wars, tossing around Monty Python-esque quips, and arguing that Timothy Dalton was the best Bond and should "get an Oscar and beat Sean Connery over the head with it!" Playing geekster Andrew on Buffy the Vampire Slayer with cohorts in crime Warren (Adam Busch) and Jonathan (Danny Strong ) is where Tom was at last year, and who knows what this, the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will bring? Currently Tom is working on his own one man variety show tentativley called 'The Tom Lenk Show'.

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