Thom Bierdz Interview: Daytime's Lone Wolf on God, Art, Facebook and "Y&R's" Jeanne Cooper
Written by Melissa Parker, Posted in Interviews Actors
Noted for being the first openly gay actor on daytime television, Thom Bierdz is best known for portraying Phillip Chancellor III on The Young and the Restless. In 1989, shortly after he left the show to pursue film roles, his youngest brother Troy, a paranoid schizophrenic, beat their mother to death with a baseball bat. Bierdz recounts that experience and his own journey to forgiveness in a memoir entitled Forgiving Troy he penned about 20 years after the tragedy.
