- TODD ALLEN is an Actor/writer/producer, and will soon make his feature Directorial Debut with a script he wrote entitled SIX MILE CREEK, a story of a Veteran, suffering the ravages of PTSD who must overcome his own demons to save the lives of a woman and her teen=aged daughter that he comes to love. A film about the Power of Love to change lives.
A serial entrepreneur, Allen has built 3 companies in recent years: Virtuosity Media which is Production Company dedicated to making films and television that highlights the human spirit and is intended to tell stories that bring people together rather than sew the seeds of division. An Alternative Energy company with the capability to change the world. And a Veterans Treatment and Housing Initiative, in concert with the DOD and the VA, that aims to eradicate Veteran homelessness, PTSD and suicide.
Allen has appeared in close to 70 film and television productions in his career and 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. He is Executive Producer of the epic 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. Shelby enters The University of Texas in 2024 as the 10th member of the Allen family to attend this storied University.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Final draft by [email protected]
- SpousesDara Allen(February 5, 2006 - present) (3 children)Rosalind Allen(January 1, 1990 - 2005) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenMacKenzie
- Often plays lawmen
- Frequently cast by Lawrene Kasdan and Kevin Costner.
- 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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