Lee Tergesen
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
Monster
2003
Inferno
1999
Session Man
1991
A Thief Of Time
2004
Norman Pinski Come Home
2017
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
2007
Acting Sheriff
1991
Into The Dark
2015
Darkness Before Dawn
1993
Extreme Dating
2005
Helena from the Wedding
2010
Starwater
2001
Wild Iris
2001
Bark!
2002
No One Lives
2013
Cabin Girl
2023
Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel
2007
2nd Take
2011
The Collection
2012
Southern Comfort
2006
Cast a Deadly Spell
1991
The Forgotten
2004
Red Tails
2012
Shaft
2000
Silver Tongues
2011
Point Break
1991
The Boys of Sunset Ridge
2001
Diamonds
1999
Mind Benders
1987
Wayne's World
1992
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
2006
Wayne's World 2
1993
The Exonerated
2006
Desert Cathedral
2014
The Parable of the Disappearing Recliner
2017
Tooken
2015
The Killing Mind
1991
Zo
2024
Making Generation Kill
2008
Equity
2016
We All Scream for Ice Cream
2007
The Yellow Birds
2018
Pineapple
2006
George B.
1997
Shot in the Heart
2001
Helena from the Wedding: Cast Interviews
2011
Mergers & Acquisitions
2001
The Purge: Behind the Series
2018
The Next Play
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The Wrong Road
2025
Duckman
1994
Third Watch
1999
Law & Order
1990
Castle
2009
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
The Closer
2005
Desperate Housewives
2004
The 4400
2004
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show
1997
Touched by an Angel
1994
The Beat
2000
The Unit
2006
Masters of Horror
2005
Criminal Minds
2005
Rescue Me
2004
The New Adventures of Old Christine
2006
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Cane
2007
Kings
2009
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Cupid
2009
The Handler
2003
Wanted
2005
Cracker
1997
The Hoop Life
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Queens Supreme
2003
Generation Kill
2008
Marvel's Daredevil
2015
Marvel's Daredevil
2015
Red Widow
2013
Oz
1997
Person of Interest
2011
Gone
2018
The Americans
2013
The Following
2013
House
2004
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
ER
1994
Forever
2014
Elementary
2012
Weird Science
1994
Law & Order: LA
2010
Blindspot
2015
American Horror Story
2011
The River
2012
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
2018
The Purge
2018
New Amsterdam
2018
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Tracker
2024
The Equalizer
2021
Life on Mars
2008
East New York
2022
Saturday Night Live
1975
Black Bird
2022
Watchmen
2019
Law & Order
1990
JAG
1995
Hack
2002
Chicago P.D.
2014
Alpha House
2013
The Plot Against America
2020
A Friend of the Family
2022
Reunited Apart
2020
Longmire
2012
The Good Fight
2017
The Strain
2014
Bull
2016
Hawaii Five-0
2010
Royal Pains
2009
Accused
2023
FBI
2018
The Blacklist
2013
Army Wives
2007