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Tom Hickey (actor) Tom Hickey (actor) Tom Hickey (born 1944) is an Irish actor who has appeared on stage and screen in a career that began in the early 1960s. He is, perhaps, best known for playing Benjy Riordan in the long-running television series, "The Riordans". Born in Kildare, Hickey began his career in 1963 at Deirdre O'Connell's Stanislavski Studio in Dublin where he trained in Stanislavski's system of acting. He has said that he sees his choice of profession as a "vocation", having decided to become an actor when he was five or six years old. In 1965, Hickey joined the cast