- Actor/writer/producer Todd Allen has appeared in close to 70 film and television productions in his career. He has recently completed filming Kevin Costner's epic Horizon: An American Saga parts 1 and 2 making the 5th time he has worked with Costner. He is also slated to appear in Horizon parts 3 and 4. Previously, Todd worked with Kevin Costner on three films and with Robert Duvall on The Apostle (1997), and again on Broken Trail (2006), in which Allen received excellent reviews as territorial Marshal Bill Miller.
Via his independent production company, Virtuosity Media, he has planned a number of exemplary film and television projects, including some 14 feature projects, 11 television projects, two documentaries and a number of alternative television projects. Todd recently completed writing, and will make his Directorial debut, with the feature screenplay, Six Mile Creek, the story of a Veteran suffering from PTSD who must overcome his own demons to save the woman and daughter he comes to love. He will also Executive Produce the epic long form television project Sarita, a true story of a girls journey into Mexico to track down her brother's killers, set on the Texas / Mexico border during the 1920 Prohibition era. A UFC centered television series project, The Tournament, and a sought-after spaghetti western reboot, Challenge at Crown Valley, to be shot on location in Almeria, Spain. Other projects include the gritty, noir-styled western, The Deserters, the romantic thrill ride, Suicide Grip.
Allen maintains residences in both Los Angeles and his hometown, Austin,Texas where he lives with his wife and youngest child, Shelby Allen, who works in Development for Virtuosity Motion Pictures and Virtuosity Television, and is pursuing a career in media, sports entertainment and sports management.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Final draft by Rms125a@hotmail.com
- SpousesDara Allen(February 5, 2006 - present) (3 children)Rosalind Allen(January 1, 1990 - 2005) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenMacKenzie
- Often plays lawmen
- Once broke a door down and pulled an unconscious person from a burning apartment building.
- Worked as a roughneck on an offshore oil platform to make the money to attend the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York.
- Played fighter ace Chuck Yeager in Pancho Barnes (1988) as a tribute to his father's service as a naval aviator.
- Former Golden Gloves middleweight champion.
- Is an alumnus of the University of Texas in Austin.
- I've flown jets, driven speed boats, been fast with a gun, raced through a river on horseback, shot the bad guy, been the bad guy, operated on people, been a crazy S.O.B., and seduced some extremely fine women. All in all, it ain't a bad life. [on being an actor]
- ...I always feel grounded and very much at home when I look up Congress Avenue and see the Capitol Building. I joke to my wife that it might be my office someday. I think she lives in fear that I might actually be serious. [on being the Governor of Texas]
- [On the idea of running for political office] That'd be "special".
- How's that working for you?
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