T.J. Buckner was born in Shreveport, LA in 1965. He began his acting career in high school, in 1982, playing the role of Mortimer Brewster in "Arsenic and Old Lace". After which he worked with Gas Light Players in Shreveport, playing in such Charles Ludlam plays as "The Mystery of Irma Vep" and "Murder in the Magnolias".