Terrence was born in Cleveland, Ohio on November 5, 1934 while his
father was touring with the Keith Vaudeville Circuit. The entourage to
the hospital included such notables as Phil Silvers, Gene Krupa, who
was then the drummer in the Mal Hallett Orchestra and double talk
artist Al Kelly. His mother, whose stage name was Marie Duke, was a
dancer and choreographer and appeared on Broadway in the John Murray
Anderson Extravaganza, "Winter Nights."
He cut his theatrical teeth at the legendary "Poet's Theater in
Cambridge while attending Harvard College. After graduating from
Harvard, he became a resident actor at Boston's, Charles Playhouse
whose members included Olympia Dukakis, Charles Keating, Al Pacino,
Louis Zorich and Jill Clayburgh. After ten years and forty productions
he travelled south to become a member of the acting company at the
prestigious Arena Stage in Washington DC, appearing in over 80
productions. When the resident company was disbanded, he trekked to New
York and managed to snag a good role in the ill-fated "Annie 2". Good
fortune, however, was not far down the road. He was cast in the revival
of "Damn Yankees" which played 5 months at the Old Globe Theater in San
Diego and 19 months on Broadway with Bebe Neuwirth as Lola and Victor
Garber as the Devil. One year into the run, the irrepressible Jerry
Lewis came aboard as the Devil and wowed all 35 members of the cast by
knowing everyone's first name. In between theater work he's managed to
sandwich in several feature films and has appeared on TV in Homicide,
The Wire, Dawsons Creek, All My Children, One Life To Live, the CBS
mini-series, George Washington (1984), A Woman Named Jackie, Bridges To Cross, the PBS
blocbuster, The Civil War and has done three L.A. Theater Works radio
dramas with Ed Asner, Marcia Mason and Fred Thompson. He recently
completed filming in the new Jerry Bruckheimer film "American Treasure"
to be released in 2004.
