Tom Beck was born on 26.2.1978 in Nuremberg, Germany. He studied at the Bavarian theatre-academy August Everding (with as maincourse "musical"). Tom Beck is a dancer (ballet, jazz, modern, Afro, Step) and a musician (he plays piano, guitar, drums, organ and accordion).

After his award at the Federal singing competition for the best musical representation of a scene it was in many plays, musicals and TV productions seen. Since 2004, he joined in several television productions. In 2007 he played in the musical "Grease". Since autumn 2008, Tom Beck plays in the action series Alarm für Cobra 11 - The highway police on the side of Erdogan Atalay as Commissioner Ben Jäger.