 He was born in Takoma Park, Maryland, but was raised in Northeastern Pennsylvania near Wilkes-Barre.His father and three uncles ran several single-screen art deco style movie theatres in the region that their father built shortly after emigrating from Mykines, Greece.Tom's grandfather (also Tom Alexander) changed his last name from Alexopoulos to Alexander when he arrived at Ellis Island near the turn of the 20th century.