Tom is age 55 and was born on September 23, 1965.
Tom’s mother, Joanna Rostropowicz, graduated in Polish studies from the University of Warsaw. She worked at the Center for Public Opinion Research on Polish radio before moving to the U.S in 1971.
Likewise, his father was Tomasz Pobóg-Malinowski, who was a famous documentary filmmaker. His parents divorced and later his mother remarried to a liberal politician and well-known journalist Blair Clark who lived in New York and Princeton. He first arrived in America with his mother at age the age of 10.