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Place of Birth: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
About Tommy Sexton
- Thomas "Tommy" Sexton (July 3, 1957 – December 13, 1993) was a Canadian comedian.
- Born in St.
- John's, Newfoundland, he was the youngest member of the CODCO comedy troupe. Educated in St.
- John's, he was an honours student before quitting after Grade 10 to pursue an acting career in Toronto.
- After briefly working on a children's touring theatre show, he landed his first television role in the drama series Police Surgeon.
- Sexton and colleague Diane Olsen subsequently wrote Cod on a Stick, a comedic play which launched CODCO.In 1975, Sexton took a brief sabbatical from CODCO to study at the Toronto Dance Theatre.
- He subsequently returned, working on other shows with CODCO and subsequently touring with colleague Greg Malone in two co-written works, The Wonderful Grand Band and Two Foolish to Talk About.
- In 1985 and 1986, Sexton and Malone wrote and performed in a series of television specials for the CBC, called The S and M Comic Book, which in turn led to CODCO landing its own series in 1987. After CODCO's run concluded in 1992, Sexton and Malone wrote and starred in a CBC television special, The National Doubt, satirizing the constitutional debates of the early 1990s.
- Sexton subsequently wrote a semi-autobiographical film, Adult Children of Alcoholics: The Musical, which was in production in November 1993 when Sexton, who was openly gay, fell ill due to complications from AIDS.
- He died on December 13 of that year. Malone subsequently campaigned for HIV and AIDS education in Sexton's memory.
- His sister, filmmaker Mary Sexton, produced a documentary film about him, Tommy...A Family Portrait, in 2001.
- Along with Malone and their CODCO co-star Andy Jones, Sexton was a posthumous recipient of the Earle Grey Award, the lifetime achievement award of Canadian television's Gemini Awards, in 2002. The Tommy Sexton Centre, a new assisted housing complex for people living with HIV and AIDS, was opened in St.
- John's in 2006.
- In 2009, several drag queens in the city put together "Ravishing in Red", a tribute show to Sexton, as a fundraiser for the Sexton Centre.
- One performer, Betty "Boo" Kakke, singled him out as Newfoundland's "clown prince".Sexton's mother, Sara Sexton, became a major figure in HIV/AIDS awareness in Newfoundland and Labrador following her son's death.
- Sara Sexton was announced as an inductee to the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2013, and was inducted in February 2014.
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