Tom Hughes (ATWT)

Tom Hughes
Scott Holmes as Tom Hughes, 2010
As the World Turns character
Portrayed by	Peter Galman (1969–73) C. David Colson (1973–78) Tom Tammi (1979–80) Justin Deas (1980–84) Jason Kincaid (1984) Gregg Marx (1984–86) Scott Holmes (1987–2010) (and others)
Duration	1961–2010
First appearance	May 1961
Last appearance	September 17, 2010
Created by	Irna Phillips
Introduced by	Ted Corday
Spin-off appearances	Our Private World
Classification	Final, regular
Profile
Occupation	Lawyer Former District attorney Former Journalist at The Argus Former District attorney Briefly worked at the U.S. Department of Justice in the crime commission in D.C. Formerly taught, law, for summer semester 1984 at a law school in Boulder, Colorado Former Lawyer at Lowell, Hughes, & Colman
Residence	724 Pinewood Lane Oakdale, IL 60324
Parents Bob Hughes Lisa Miller Half-brothers Scott Eldridge Charles Shea Christopher Hughes II Half-sisters Frannie Hughes Sabrina Hughes Spouse Carol Demming (1971–74) Natalie Bannon (1975–77) Margo Montgomery (1983–) Sons Casey Hughes Daniel Hughes Daughters Lien Hughes Stepsons Adam Munson Grandsons Billy Norbeck Uncles Don Hughes Aunts Susan Hughes Penny Hughes First cousins Ryder Hughes (adoptive) Christina Hughes Amy Lin Cunningham (adoptive)

Thomas Christopher "Tom" Hughes is a fictional character on the American soap opera As the World Turns. He was played by a number of actors during the character's 49-year tenure on the show, the longest-running actor being Scott Holmes, who took over the role July 3, 1987, and remained until ATWT's cancellation in 2010. He is an attorney in Oakdale.

The character of Tom Hughes has been played by many young actors before being aged in 1969.

Tom Hughes was born onscreen in May 1961 to Bob and Lisa Hughes. His parents divorced when he was young and Tom largely blamed his father for the break-up, due to his mother's having poisoned his mind against him. Lisa, tired of Oakdale, took Tom to LA and dropped him off at a military school. His grandparents, Chris and Nancy, brought him back home, and he was put in Bob's care. However, young Tommy was still angry at his father, and started acting up by destroying daddy dolls. Luckily, Ellen Lowell was able to reach out to Tommy and got him to see not only how much Bob (and by extension Nancy and Chris) loved him, but made him realize how much his dad, a busy young doctor, was needed.

Later, when Tom was a bit older, he became insolent and Lisa again shipped him off to boarding school for a brief time. When Tom returned, he was shocked to learn that his mother had lied to him about the baby she was caring for. Lisa told Tom that the child, Chuckie, was the child of an ill friend, when in reality, he was Lisa’s son by Michael Shea, with whom she had been having an affair. Tom denounced her as a liar and wrote her off. At this point, a teenaged Tom was becoming rebellious. He was obnoxious to his grandparents, Nancy and Chris, who shared Lisa's conviction that Bob had become neglectful of his son. Tom's uncle, Donald Hughes (Bob's brother) was the only one in the family who was able to develop a good rapport with Tom. In one conversation, Tom complained to his uncle that being prepared for adulthood was like being "a Boy Scout ... a straight arrow going nowhere." Don correctly sensed that Tom was going nowhere but downward, thanks to his long-haired boarding school roommate, Hank Barton, Hank was a criminal who was getting Tom hooked on speed, and enlisted Tom's help in robbing Hank's father's pharmacy. Bob also became concerned about Tom's attitude and warned him he'd cut off his financial support unless he took Lisa back into his life. Tom begrudgingly needed his father's advice, acting little more than cordially to his mother.