Tom Beck (actor)  Thomas "Tom" Helmut Beck (born February 26, 1978 in Nuremberg, Germany) is a German actor, singer, and entrepreneur. Beck finished high school in Neues Gymnasium Nürnberg. He then attended the Bavarian Theatre Academy in Munich, under the Musical degree programme, where he was trained musically and in dancing, and finished with his thesis, "Beck-Stage." Beck played and sang in two bands; he left King Schlayer, his second, in 2001 after the second year. After receiving his award at the National Singing Competition in 2001, Beck was engaged as a performer in musicals between 2005 and 2007. Since 2004 he appeared in various television productions. From autumn 2008 to the end of 2013, Beck was seen in the action series "Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei" alongside Erdoğan Atalay as "Kriminallhauptkommissar" Ben Jäger. On September 28, 2012, Beck announced his exit from the series at the "Bülent Ceylan Show". The last episode with Beck aired in December, 2013. On March 11, 2011, his first single "Sexy" was released, which went two weeks later directly in No. 50 in the singles charts. On March 25, 2011, Beck released his first album Superficial Animal, which debuted at number 36 of the German album charts. On October 5, 2012, he released his second studio album, "Americanized." Since his work for "Cobra 11," Beck lives in Cologne. In the summer of 2013, Tom Beck took part in the game show "Schlag the Star" and won. In October 2013 he participated in the TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge, finishing in 4th place. In February 2014, he also took part in the TV show "TV total PokerStars.de Nacht." In 2015, he played in the Sat.1 television movie "Einstein," co-starring with Annika Ernst in the male lead role of police adviser Felix Winterberg. From January 2017 to March 2019, he has also taken over the role in the television series of the same name. In 2016 he participated in the TV show "Grill the Henssler." In the game show "Schlag the Star" he prevailed against Daniel Aminati and won 100,000 euros. In 2020 he won the second season of „The Masked Singer“ Germany as the Sloth.