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
Movies
- Monster
2003
- Inferno
1999
- Session Man
1991
- A Thief Of Time
2004
- Norman Pinski Come Home
2017
- Bury My Heart at Wounde...
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: Anato...
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 Mass...
2006
- Wayne's World 2
1993
- The Exonerated
2006
- Desert Cathedral
2014
- The Parable of the Disa...
2017
- Tooken
2015
- The Killing Mind
1991
- Zo
2024
- Making Generation Kill
2008
- Equity
2016
- We All Scream for Ice C...
2007
- The Yellow Birds
2018
- Pineapple
2006
- George B.
1997
- Shot in the Heart
2001
- Helena from the Wedding...
2011
- Mergers & Acquisitions
2001
- The Purge: Behind the S...
2018
- The Next Play
TV Shows
- Duckman
1994
- Third Watch
1999
- Law & Order
1990
- Castle
2009
- CSI: Crime Scene Invest...
2000
- The Closer
2005
- Desperate Housewives
2004
- The 4400
2004
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kid...
1997
- Touched by an Angel
1994
- The Unit
2006
- The Beat
2000
- Masters of Horror
2005
- Criminal Minds
2005
- Rescue Me
2004
- The New Adventures of O...
2006
- Homicide: Life on the S...
1993
- Cane
2007
- Kings
2009
- Law & Order: Criminal I...
2001
- Cupid
2009
- The Handler
2003
- Wanted
2005
- Cracker
1997
- The Hoop Life
1999
- Law & Order: Special Vi...
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
- Law & Order: Special Vi...
1999
- House
2004
- 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 I...
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