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Template:Realworld Thomas "Tommy" Gormley is the first assistant director (1st AD) for J.J. Abrams on Star Trek. He previously worked with Abrams on the 2006 Paramount Pictures release Mission: Impossible III, which was also written by Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci and photographed by Dan Mindel.

Gormley began his career as an assistant director on British made-for-TV movies and independent films. His first major studio film was the Mike Figgis drama The Browning Version, distributed in the United States by Paramount Pictures in 1994. The first film he worked on as first assistant director was 1996's The Leading Man, whose cast include David Warner.

His first American production (albeit filmed in Ireland) was Jim Sheridan's 1997 acclaimed, Golden Globe-nominated drama The Boxer. He then worked as 1st AD on the British-made, Academy Award-nominated 1998 historical drama Elizabeth. His subsequent 1st AD credits include the films Angela's Ashes (1999), The Tailor of Panama (2001), Paramount's The Four Feathers (2002), Veronica Guerin (2003), and The Phantom of the Opera (2004).

Gormley was Jonathan Frakes' 1st AD on the 2004 adventure film Thunderbirds. He was also 1st AD on the acclaimed HBO series Rome, for which he shared a Director's Guild of America (DGA) Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a primetime dramatic series.

More recently, Gormley was 1st AD on the 2007 film Elizabeth: The Golden Age (the sequel to 1998's Elizabeth) and the upcoming fantasy film Inkheart.

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