Tom Arnold Biography

Fast Facts

• Once pulled fat from the innards of pigs while working at an Iowa meatpacking plant
• Was a producer on Roseanne when it won the 1993 Golden Globe for Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy
• Invested $16 million with then-wife Roseanne in upscale housing and a restaurant (Tom's Big Food Diner) in Eldon, IA
• After their divorce, the restaurant closed and the property was given to a foundation started by Arnold's college
• Won the Worst Actor prize at the 1996 Razzies for the big-screen dud Big Bully; had to share the award with PaulyShore for the latter's performance in Bio-Dome
• Launched www
• marrytom
• com to invite applicants for his next marriage shortly after his divorce from Roseanne
• Actor Dax Shepard was the best man for his wedding to Ashley Groussman in 2009