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Wikipedia page for Tomas de Visser [edit]

Tomas de Visser (born June 28, 1992) is a Dutch pastry chef and Prometheus contract. He trained and worked in France for 7 years before moving back to Los Angeles. He’s most known for winning Masterchef US Season 10, and his role as Emiliano in The Boy Venus (2020). He secured his contract with Prometheus after his win from Masterchef in 2018, debuting with his cooking show The French Dutchman Kitchen (2019-). He soon started his acting debut in Heart & Soul (2019). He also currently runs his family bakery business de Visser’s Bakery in Beverly Grove, Los Angeles with his older brother Skylar de Visser, taking over from their parents.

Early Life

Tomas de Visser was born in Delfshaven, Rotterdam, the Netherlands to Markus and Francisca de Visser and have four siblings. He has an older sister, Isa, an older brother, Skylar, and two younger twin sisters Ade and Aleid. Both of his parents and all of his siblings are, or have been, in the culinary industry, where his parents started up a bakery. He spent his childhood in Rotterdam and moved to Los Angeles in his teenage years as his parents decided to migrate their bakery business from Rotterdam to Los Angeles. Tomas started learning to bake at a very young age alongside all his siblings in order to help with the bakery, and he grew a fondness for working with pastries. He graduated from Fairfax High School and forego further education to move to Paris, France at age 19 in 2011.

Career

Patisserie  After moving to Paris, Tomas first started up his own Boulangerie & Patisserie however it promptly closed in less than a year. He then started an apprenticeship under Romuald Beauvais at Maison Loulou as a junior pastry chef at age 20 and completed his training, working as a noteworthy pastry chef at Maison Loulou for the next 7 years that went on to bring the restaurant to one of the top rated emerging restaurants in Paris, seeing the restaurant through growing from one Michelin star to three by 2017. Maison Loulou join the ranks with their chefs under the top 100 Best Chefs awards, de Visser winning The Best Chefs Rising Star Award 2017 and nominated Best Pastry Chef. But in 2018 he made the decision to leave the restaurant and return home to Los Angeles to help take care of his father and the family bakery. de Visser’s Bakery is small but established and well known for its traditional Dutch bread and pastries and their famous Dutch cold drip coffee with home roasted beans, now run by de Visser brothers.

Masterchef US 2018 Season 10 de Visser appeared as one of the top 24 in the reality television program Masterchef US 2018. He was declared the competition winner on 20 July 2018, winning $250,000 and a contract offer with Prometheus and de Visser promptly signed on. de Visser appeared as a guest judge for Masterchef US 2019 and 2020, bringing in his desserts for a pressure test in each season.

Prometheus In 2019, de Visser debut in Prometheus as a signed contract with his cooking show The French Dutchman Kitchen, with guest stars in its second season like Julian Santiago, Charles Irons, Juno Benson and Luda Mae Kerrigan. The show is one of the top rated within its genre based on Prometheus ratings.

de Visser made his acting debut as Adam in the television series Heart&Soul (2019) which was nominated and runner up for Best Project for that season in 2019. He was a last minute addition and replacement for the role of Adam.

de Visser also was an extra in Prometheus’ film Hairspray 2019. 

In 2020, de Visser joined the cast for Jessamine Beaumont-Jackson’s film The Boy Venus as the lead role Emiliano. The project was later helmed by Julian Santiago as director and Claudia Marshall who was the cinematographer from the start, after the director Beaumont-Jackson’s unfortunate passing. The project still finished and premiered with critical acclaims. He won The Saturn Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for his role of Emiliano, which drew much polarized controversy and divide over his performance in the film. de Visser declined to comment and simply said, "how it's judged.. it's up to them, I just feel fortunate to be here and that Jess put his faith in me, as uh- stressful as that was." It is also rumored that he is in the talks for a role in the new up and coming war film Dunkirk in the Prometheus Fall Season 2020.

He started as a D lister and has shot his way up to Icon in 2 years. Despite also being awarded worst performance for his role as Adam, de Visser was seen as an emerging new contract with a strong cult following. He is also noted to always bring bread and pastries from his bakery to sets he work on. Current Points (as of October 27 2020): 5034

Book There have been rumors for de Visser to be writing his first cookbook with Eve Austero’s involvement, though it is yet to be confirmed.

Personal Life

de Visser stated that he prefers not to discuss the interest in his relationships or family matters publicly, however his younger sister Ade shares frivolously through her recent found TikTok fame. Little is known of his personal life before Prometheus.  

Early in his Prometheus career, there had been rumors and photos taken of de Visser being very close to Prometheus escort Tatum Morgan, her appearances with him starts as early as his Masterchef days and the rumors and judgement spread like wild fire only for them to explain that she was his cousin. Some still hold on to the paparazzi claims, belief of something more. de Visser has flatly shot them down, with pictures of them as kids had been posted on Instagram wishing Morgan a happy birthday. 

In 2020 when asked in an interview coming from the discussion of his asexuality, he describes himself as demisexual though never saw a need to really use a label, he stated “in the environments I lived in - Dutch and French, it never really mattered.” It is rumored early on that he is dating fellow Prometheus actor Juno Benson, especially with the blow up of them caught kissing on de Visser’s younger sister TikTok video, both had declined to comment until their recent instagram announcement that confirmed they’ve been dating since October 2019.

Filmography

Masterchef US Season 10 (2018) Episode 1-25 (Winner) Season 11 (2019) Ep 1 (Guest Judge) Season 12 (2020) Episode 19 (Guest Judge)

The French Dutchman Kitchen (24-minute cooking show) Season 1 (2019) - ongoing (Host) (currently 2 seasons)

Heart & Soul Season 1 (2019) Episode 1-24 (Adam)

Hairspray (2019) (Extra)

The Boy Venus (2020) (Emiliano)

Dunkirk (2021) (Tommy)

Food Style

de Visser notes that his food style for his pastries and desserts is very experimental. His foundations are in Dutch and French cuisine but he enjoys pushing boundaries of flavor profiles and conceptualization, which was what he was known for, alongside his impeccable palate, during his Masterchef run. He states “I find so much inspiration from people, the people around me, the people I love, and conceptualize a dish from there. Food is more than just a plate to fill your tummy.” de Visser look up to and is inspired by chefs like Ludo Lefevbre and Reynold Poernomo.

Awards and nominations

2017 - The Best Chefs - Won Rising Star Chef

2017 - The Best Chefs - Nominated Best Pastry Chef

2018 - Masterchef US 2018 - Winner

2019 - Heart & Soul - Won Runner Up to Best Project

2019 - Adam - Heart & Soul - Won Worst Performance

2019 - Adam - Heart & Soul - Won Cinnamon Roll

2020 - The French Dutchman Kitchen - Nominated Best Rated Cooking Show

What is the nature of your relationship with Mr. Beaumont-Jackson?: 

”There wasn’t one. I don’t think I've even watched a single film of his.”

Do you believe anyone wished him harm?:

“You, maybe? This whole ‘interrogation’ charade is such a joke.”

Are you familiar with narcotics?:

“Not in the least. Perhaps you’re asking the wrong Irons--I know Charles likes to slum with undesirables. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s picked up some questionable habits from them.”

To the best of your ability, do you remember the last time you saw Mr. Beaumont-Jackson?:

genre : horror (?) / romantic comedy directed by : beau thomas . starring : vivien barnes ( as elizabeth fairbrooke ) & taliesin collier ( as alexander madison )

“ this is not your typical romance. ”

                Alexander is a young man trying to make it as a successful artist in the big city, as far as he’s concerned life is pretty great. he has an amazing job, and he’s just moved in to an amazing apartment with his gorgeous fiancée Eliza. that is until a night of passion has Eliza turn Alex into a creature of the night.

                If your immediate response to the words “Love Bites” is to imagine Taliesin Collier half naked sprawled across satin sheets, then bazinga ! you know exactly the topic of tonight’s review !

THE CARRIE DIARIES (2013-2014),  AS SEBASTIAN KYDD

carrie bradshaw is in her junior year of high school in the early 1980s. she asks her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family while navigating the worlds of high school and manhattan.

the only person he really hung out with on set was the other lead’s stunt double. she turned out to be a lesbian which was kinda a bummer cause she was hot af, but theo did end up giving her clem’s number cause he’s a real bro like that. she made the whole project bearable, always goofing off together on set and making fun of the actors. theo really has no idea what she went to work on next, but he lowkey misses her.

also he totally stole so many props from set, mostly stuff from the lead actor’s wardrobe cause the guy was a douchebag. theo still wears his sweet ass ray bans to this day. 

Christian Béaugara

― APOLLINE DE VERE as A PISSED-OFF SISTER in REVENGE, LA STYLE

it had to be one of the stupidest things juno had ever agreed to do. okay, maybe not as stupid as diy-welding a stage set for king lear, but it came close. barely a week into his first project, his co-star, apolline, asked him to help her ruin someone’s life. oh, and be an accessory to first-degree murder.

the story came out over a bottle of vodka in a props warehouse: apolline had an elder brother, julien. much like juno, he grew up on the stage -- the ballet stage in paris; they both did, though he’d always been the shining star. siegfried, albrecht, the beast, while she was never more than a cygnet, content to simply bask in his light. after each performance he’d put on little sketches of his own, comedy pieces for his little sister’s eyes only. it felt like the perfect world.

when julien’s cystic fibrosis ended his dancing career prematurely, he went into acting. first in niche, french indie films, but then he packed up and moved to la -- of course, apolline came with him. she always would, even if meant sacrificing her own life on the stage and becoming a choreographer. all she needed was for him to stay with her -- and he did, even as he reached dizzying new heights. until he didn’t.

it was a stupid accident. not cancellation, not cystic fibrosis, but a fucking bar fight that got out of hand. before she knew it, her brother stepped in to break it up -- and before she knew it, he had a knife in his left lung. before she knew it, he was dying in her arms, suffocating in his own blood before the ambulance even reached the hospital.

as soon as his ashes had been scattered, she signed a contract. she started plotting to get back at the man who had killed julien, to make him feel the same pain. all she wanted juno to do was seduce the man’s wife, and lead her up to the roof of that very same bar.

he said yes. when the wife’s broken body was found on the pavement, he tried not to think about what he’d helped her to do -- the husband’s distraught face on the news was proof enough that her plan had worked. life ruined; they never really managed a friendly relationship after that, but she was grateful enough to not push it. they went their separate ways, and before long juno found his own life spiralling out of control. but what about apolline? she kept working, kept fighting to rise up the leaderboard, kept visiting her brother’s star every day. the only thing that keeps her going now is the knowledge that he never got to live out his dreams. he never got to put the ring he carried in his pocket for weeks on his fiance’s finger -- so she did. he never got to kiss his husband under the hollywood sign, so she took her wife there. he never got to see the system dismantled.

― CARYS BATTERSEA as JENNIFER ROBERTS in WALLS

prometheus really took a gamble when they picked up a script written by scruffy, 24-year-old, post-rehab (for the third time) jess. even more so when they allowed him to direct it -- a low-budget horror movie based on the yellow wallpaper by charlotte perkins gilman.

if it hadn’t been for carys, the film probably wouldn’t have succeeded. precious few of the cast really cared about it, jumping on the project for easy points -- but carys was different. her performance as the protagonist, ‘paranoid schizophrenic’ jennifer, was bone-chilling and visceral, stunning critics with her commitment to the role. as one of a rare collection of female method actors, carys carried this devotion over to other projects; time and time again, she was working with jess, their combined obsessiveness producing more disturbing, psychological projects.