Tergesen was born in Ivoryton, Connecticut and graduated from Valley Regional High School in nearby Deep River. He moved to New York to try to become an actor. He graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA)'s two-year program in Manhattan, where, from 1986 to 1989, he worked at the Empire Diner.
Monster
⭐ 7.21Inferno
⭐ 6.153Session Man
⭐ 6.1A Thief Of Time
⭐ 5.2Norman Pinski Come Home
⭐ 0Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
⭐ 6.552Acting Sheriff
⭐ 0Darkness Before Dawn
⭐ 8Into The Dark
⭐ 0Extreme Dating
⭐ 5.4Helena from the Wedding
⭐ 3.8Starwater
⭐ 0Wild Iris
⭐ 7Bark!
⭐ 4.571No One Lives
⭐ 5.997Cabin Girl
⭐ 4.957Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel
⭐ 02nd Take
⭐ 6.5The Collection
⭐ 6.379Southern Comfort
⭐ 4Cast a Deadly Spell
⭐ 6.064Point Break
⭐ 7.158Diamonds
⭐ 5.306Silver Tongues
⭐ 6.1Shaft
⭐ 6.015The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
⭐ 6.157Red Tails
⭐ 6.564Mind Benders
⭐ 3.6Wayne's World
⭐ 6.69Wayne's World 2
⭐ 6.094The Boys of Sunset Ridge
⭐ 2.5The Forgotten
⭐ 5.936The Exonerated
⭐ 7.2Desert Cathedral
⭐ 6The Parable of the Disappearing Recliner
⭐ 0Tooken
⭐ 4.167The Killing Mind
⭐ 5Zo
⭐ 8Making Generation Kill
⭐ 8Equity
⭐ 5.6We All Scream for Ice Cream
⭐ 4.9The Yellow Birds
⭐ 5.99Pineapple
⭐ 4.5George B.
⭐ 0Shot in the Heart
⭐ 5.6Helena from the Wedding: Cast Interviews
⭐ 0Mergers & Acquisitions
⭐ 0The Purge: Behind the Series
⭐ 2The Next Play
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