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Date of Birth

8 July 1965, Ivoryton, Connecticut, USA

Birth Name

Lee Allen Tergesen

Height

6' (1.83 m)

Mini Biography

Born on 8th July 1965 in Ivoryton, Connecticut, Lee is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. While working as a waiter, he did his first stage work in New York. In LA he got landed his first big part in a movie called Point Break in 1991. After some other roles in TV, he finally got the role he is known best for: Terry in Waynes World. The Budweiser Company used his "I love you, man!" statement in a series of beer commercials. Some of his best-known work is in the OZ TV series.

IMDb Mini Biography By: liderc

Spouse

Leslie Howitt	(August 2001 - 2004) (divorced)
Tanya Lewis	(1994 - 1997) (divorced)

Trivia

Is of Norwegian and Swedish decent

He has no feeling in one of his index fingers. He lost it while banging his hands on the prisons bars in his first scene as Tobias Beecher on Oz.

Brother-in-law of Toni Lewis.

Is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York, New York

On Oz, his character Beecher feuded with Nazi prisoners. And in Shaft, Sam Jackson [Shaft] calls Lee Tergesen's character Lugar a Nazi with a badge for being somewhat racist towards black criminals.

Personal Quotes

[About which is the better kisser: his real-life wife, or co-star Christopher Meloni] "Definitely Meloni. When I kiss my wife, I don't see any cash."

"Before I did Weird Science I definitely wasn't thinking, 'Oh my God, I'd LOVE to do a series for four years where I got to be a loud, obnoxious, militaristic asshole!' And certainly when I finished that, I didn't think, 'Oh man, if I could play a lawyer-turned-convict who gets anally raped and learns to love it...'"

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