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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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
The Boy Venus (2020) (Emiliano)
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.
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
2020 - Emiliano - The Boy Venus - Won The Saturn Awards Best Breakthrough Performance
