Place of Birth: Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.

Date of Birth: March 18, 1962

Ethnicity: Welsh, Irish, possibly other

Thomas Ian Griffith is an American actor and martial artist. He is known for playing the character Terry Silver in The Karate Kid III and on Cobra Kai, and for his roles in the films Kull the Conqueror, John Carpenter’s Vampires, and xXx, among others.

Thomas is the son of Mary Ann and Thomas Joseph Griffith. He is married to actress Mary Page Keller, with whom he has two children.

Thomas’s maternal grandfather’s surname was O’Neil.