Tom Costello (born Thomas Eugene Costello in 1963) is an American journalist and correspondent for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C. His reports appear on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, and CNBC. His assigned beats include transportation, NASA, regulatory and consumer-related issues.Since 2005, Costello has been NBC News's lead aviation correspondent. Among the major aviation stories he’s covered: the crash of Asiana flight 214 in San Francisco; Air France 447 over the Atlantic; Colgan Air flight 3407 in Buffalo; Comair 5191 in Lexington; the missing Malaysian Airlines MH370 jet; and the Miracle on the Hudson landing in 2009 for which NBC News was honored with a prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award and a National Emmy Award for Breaking News Coverage.In 2008, Costello led NBC's Emmy award-winning coverage of the Financial Bailout Talks in Congress.
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast
TV Shows
NBC Nightly News, NBC News Decision 2010, Today's Business
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He is an American born actor who often played gigolos, croupiers, gangsters, etc., and is not the same actor as the British born 'Tom Costello' (1863-1943) who was a London stage comedian and may never have appeared in front of the camera.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Has Anybody Seen My Gal
1952
Minor Role (uncredited)
That Wonderful Urge
1948
Minor Role (uncredited)
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948
Musician (uncredited)
Where There's Life
1947
Aide (uncredited)
Pan-Americana
1945
Brazilian Ambassador (uncredited)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
Footman (uncredited)
Experiment Perilous
1944
uncredited
Government Girl
1943
Businessman (uncredited)
He Hired the Boss
1943
Army Doctor (uncredited)
Just Off Broadway
1942
Court Clerk (uncredited)
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
1941
Opera House Floor Manager (uncredited)
A Chump at Oxford
1940
Minor Role (uncredited)
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
Minor Role (uncredited)
She Couldn't Take It
1935
Reporter (uncredited)
Top Hat
1935
Minor Role (uncredited)
Broadway Bill
1934
uncredited
Jealousy
1934
Minor Role (uncredited)
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
1934
Men's Table Dealer (uncredited)
Midnight Alibi
1934
Rusty - Angie's Dice Game Croupier (uncredited)
Jimmy the Gent
1934
Grant (uncredited)
I've Got Your Number
1934
Ed, Gangster Making Distracting Phone Calls (uncredited)