Beck played and sang in two bands; he left King Schlayer, his second, in 2001 after the second year. After receiving his award at the National Singing Competition in 2001, Beck was engaged as a performer in musicals between 2005 and 2007. Since 2004 he appeared in various television productions. From autumn 2008 to the end of 2013, Beck was seen in the action series
Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei alongside
Erdoğan Atalay as
Kriminallhauptkommissar Ben Jäger. On 28 September 2012 Beck announced his exit from the series at the
Bülent Ceylan Show. The last episode with Beck aired in December 2013. On 11 March 2011 his first single
Sexy was released, which went two weeks later directly in No. 50 in the singles charts. On 25 March 2011 Beck released his first album Superficial Animal, which debuted at number 36 of the German album charts. On 5 October 2012 he released his second studio album,
Americanized. Since his work for
Cobra 11, Beck lives in Cologne. In the summer of 2013, Tom Beck took part in the game show
Schlag the Star and won. In October 2013 he participated in the TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge, finishing in 4th place. In February 2014, he also took part in the TV show
TV total PokerStars.de Nacht. In 2015, he played in the Sat.1 television movie
Einstein, co-starring with
Annika Ernst in the male lead role of police adviser Felix Winterberg. From January 2017 to March 2019, he has also taken over the role in the television series of the same name. In 2016 he participated in the TV show
Grill the Henssler. In the game show
Schlag the Star he prevailed against Daniel Aminati and won 100,000 euros. In 2020, he won the
second season of the German version
The Masked Singer as the Faultier ("Sloth"). ==Entrepreneur==