Tom Berenger (born May 31, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American actor best known for his leading roles in the Major League and Sniper film franchises as well as his supporting and leading roles in films such as Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill, Platoon (with Forest Whitaker, Tony Todd and Willem Dafoe), The Substitute, Training Day and the RiffTrax experiment Inception.