Happy birthday to Balthazar Getty
Last night’s was a birthday episode of Brothers & Sisters, and today is the birthday of a Brothers & Sisters cast member: Balthazar Getty, who plays Tommy and turns 32 today. A great-grandson of billionaire industrialist J. Paul Getty, Balthazar had extended roles in such TV series as Charmed, Pasadena and Alias before taking on the complex, challenging, and textured role of Tommy Walker. Um, what’s that? The role of Tommy hasn’t been all that complex, challenging, and textured? He really hasn’t had much to do? Maybe the plot points spelled out by B&S creator Jon Robin Baitz in a recent blog entry, which include Tommy starting his own business and he and his wife, Julia, dealing with her complicated pregnancy is some sort of birthday gift. At any rate, here are three facts about Balthazar Getty gleaned from his IMDB profile; feel free to entertain friends and family members with them during the endless dating service commercials in future weeks’ episodes: 1) The fingers on his right hand have the letters “BZAR” tattooed on them; 2) his childhood nickname was “Little Buddha”; and 3) he has a son is named Cassius.


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