Lee Tergesen

• Name — Lee Tergesen • Birth Name — Lee Allen Tergesen • Born — 8 July 1965 • Birthplace — Ivoryton, Connecticut, US • Years Active — 1980–present

Lee Allen Tergesen was born in Ivoryton, Connecticut and graduated from Valley Regional High School in nearby Deep River. He moved to New York City to become an actor. He graduated from the two-year program at American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in Manhattan.

From 1986 to 1989, he worked at the Empire Diner. "I wasn't a great waiter. I was funny, but I gave a lot of attitude", he told Rosie magazine in March 2002. He added: "The place is like a vortex for me". He met Tom Fontana, the future creator of Oz, at the diner. He performed on stage during this time. "I was doing plays all the time, but there's no money in it", Tergesen said in a 1995 Los Angeles Times article. "After graduation, I thought I'd be making a living at it." He went to Los Angeles to help Fontana move into his house. While dining at a restaurant on the day after arriving in LA, a casting director and friend of Fontana's asked Tergesen if he was an actor. "He told me there was a part in this movie and at that time, I couldn't imagine what it could be," Tergesen told the L.A. Times. The movie turned out to be Point Break, starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. "It was the beginning of me never having to do anything else but act", he told LT.com in 1990. Tergesen landed a bit role in the 1991 pilot Acting Sheriff which aired during primetime. He then appeared in Wayne's World (1992) and Wayne's World 2 (1993), in the 1994 series Weird Science as Chester "Chett" Donnelly, and had a recurring role in the first season of Homicide: Life on the Street. He portrayed Tobias Beecher on HBO's Oz in 1997, a critically acclaimed role he played until the series ended in 2003. His film credits include Shaft, Monster, The Forgotten, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Cast A Deadly Spell and Wild Iris. He has made several appearances in TV shows such as ER, Rescue Me, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Criminal Minds, The 4400, House, Law & Order and two of its spin-offs, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He played a murderous Navy SEAL, Andrew Larrick, in Season 2 of The Americans on the FX television network. He played an Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor in the second season of Desperate Housewives, becoming romantically involved with Bree Van de Kamp. He appeared in the USA Network series Royal Pains and in Seasons 4–5 of the Lifetime series Army Wives. He played Evan Wright in the HBO mini-series Generation Kill. He has appeared on stage in the Off-Broadway productions of Long Lost (2019) by Donald Margulies and Rapture, Blister, Burn in 2012 at Playwrights Horizons, among others.

Tergesen is married to Yuko Otomo. They have a daughter.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1990 — Law & Order — Clemens — Episode: "Prescription for Death" • 1991 — The Killing Mind — Ron Donoho — TV film • Acting Sheriff — Robbie — Unsold TV pilot • Cast a Deadly Spell — Larry Willis / Lilly Sirwar — TV film • 1993–1997 — Homicide: Life on the Street — Chris Thormann — Recurring role (seasons 1, 3, 5) • 1994 — Up All Night — Chett Donnelly — Episode: "Zapped Again!/H.O.T.S." • Philly Heat — Ivan Loki — TV series • 1994–1998 — Weird Science — Chester "Chett" Donnelly — Main role • 1995 — JAG — Gunnery Sergeant Gentry — Episode: "Brig Break" • 1996 — Hudson Street — Larry Fetchko — Episode: "In the Line of Duty" • Duckman — Chester "Chett" Donnelly (voice) — Episode: "Color of Naught" • 1997 — Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show — Carter — Episode: "Honey, the House Is Trying to Kill Us" • Cracker — Dan Green — Episode: "Sons and Lovers" • 1997–2003 — Oz — Tobias Beecher — Recurring role (season 1), main (seasons 2–6) • 1998 — Touched by an Angel — Blake Chapman — Episode: "Lady of the Lake" • 1999 — Saturday Night Live — Tobias Beecher — Episode: "Jerry Seinfeld/David Bowie" • 2000 — The — Steve Dorigan — Recurring role • 2001 — Wild Iris — Lud Van Eppy — TV film • Shot in the Heart — Frank Gilmore Jr. — TV film • 2002 — Third Watch — Jared McKinley — Episode: "Sex, Lies & Videotape" • Hack — Carl Ginley — Episode: "Pilot" • ER — Demerol Junkie / Mr Mullins — Episode: "Insurrection" • 2003 — Queens Supreme — Tommy Ryan — Episode: "One Angry Man" • Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Keith Ramsey — Episode: "Baggage" • 2004 — A — Randall Elliot — TV film • The — Oliver Knox — Episode: "Becoming" • 2005 — The — Walter Rhodes — TV film • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Martin Hawkins — Episode: "Compulsion" • Rescue Me — "Sully" Sullivan — Episodes: "Voicemail", "Harmony", "Balls" • Law & Order — Attorney Heller — Episode: "Ghosts" • Wanted — Eddie Drake — Main role • 2006 — Desperate Housewives — Peter McMillan — Guest role (season 2 & Season 7-ep 17) • The — Alex Deckard — Episode: "Extreme Rendition" • Southern Comfort — "Blue" — TV film • 2007 — Masters of Horror — Layne — Episode: "We All Scream for Ice Cream" • Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Josh Lemle — Episode: "30" • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee — Daniel Royer — TV film • Cane — Lamont Samuels — Episode: "Pilot" • A.M.P.E.D. — Brian Spicer — TV film • 2008 — Generation Kill — Evan 'Scribe' Wright — TV miniseries • Life on Mars — Lee Crocker — Episodes: "The Real Adventures of the Unreal Sam Tyler", "The Man Who Sold the World" • 2009 — Cupid — Clint — Episode: "The Great Right Hope" • The — Todd Watski — Episodes: "Notes on a 7th Grade Scandal", "The Old Maid of Honor" • The — Detective Nick Carey — Episode: "Products of Discovery" • Royal Pains — Zack Kingsley — Episode: "The Honeymoon's Over" • House — Roy — Episode: "Instant Karma" • Criminal Minds — Dale Shrader — Episode: "Retaliation" • 2010 — Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Billy Skags — Episode: "Savior" • Lie to Me — Gordon Cook — Episode: "Black and White" • 2010–2011 — Army Wives — Officer Clayton Boone — Recurring role (seasons 4–5) • 2010, 2015 — Castle — Marcus Gates — Episodes: "3XK", "Reckoning" • 2011 — Law & Order: LA — Patrick Denton — Episode: "Big Rock Mesa" • 2012 — A — Paul Curtis — Episode: "In Case of Letting Go" • The — Russ Landry — Episodes: "Peaches", "Dr. Emmet Cole" • The — Kirby — Recurring role (season 3) • 2013 — Red Widow — Mike Tomlin — Main role • Drop Dead Diva — Sid Penar — Episode: "The Real Jane" • Copper — Philomen Keating — Episodes: "I Defy Thee to Forget", "A Morning Song" • Person of Interest — Detective Peterson — Episode: "The Crossing" • 2013–2014 — Longmire — Ed Gorksi — Recurring role (seasons 1–3) • 2014 — The — Kurt — Episode: "Sacrifice" • The — Andrew Larrick — Recurring role (season 2) • Forever — Hans Koehler — Episode: "Pilot" • The — Frank Hyland — Episodes: "Lord Baltimore", "Dr. Linus Creel" • Hawaii Five-0 — Gordon Bristol — Episode: "Ka No'eau" • Alpha House — Colonel Eugene Drake — Episodes: "The Contest", "Shelter in Place", "The Nuptials" • American Horror Story: Freak Show — Vince — Episodes: "Bullseye", "Test of Strength", "Blood Bath" • 2015 — Defiance — General Rahm Tak — Recurring role (season 3) • 2016 — NCIS: New Orleans — Mike Spar — Episode: "Father's Day" • High Maintenance — Leo — Episode: "Museebat" • The — Tardi — Episodes: "First Born", "Gone But Not Forgotten", "The Battle of Central Park" • Elementary — Cray Fielder — Episode: "Folie a Deux" • Blindspot — Patrick O'Malley — Episode: "Condone Untidiest Thefts" • 2016–2017 — The — Inspector Moach — Episodes: "Seek Those Who Fan Your Flames", "Only from Exile Can We Come Home" • Outcast — Blake Morrow — Guest role (seasons 1–2) • Power — Bailey Markham — Episodes: "In My Best Interest", "The Kind of Man You Are", "We're in This Together" • 2017 — Doubt — Michael Slater — Episode: "Pilot" • 2017–2018 — Gone — Mel Foster — Recurring role • 2018 — Jack Ryan — Stanley — Episode: "Black 22" • The — Joe Owens — Main role • Daredevil — Paxton Page — 2 episodes • 2019 — Bull — Prosecutor — Episode: "Into the Mystic" (season 4) • Watchmen — "Mr. Shadow" — Episode: "She Was Killed by Space Junk" • 2020 — The Plot Against America — Agent Don McCorkle — 2 Episodes • 2021 — Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Erik Garrison — Episode: "What Can Happen in the Dark" • 2022 — The Equalizer — Deputy Barnes — Episode: "D.W.B" • A Friend of the Family — Mr. Horstman — Episode: "Son of Perdition" • 2024 — Blue Bloods — Quinn — Episodes: "Loyalty", "Dropping Bombs", "Fear No Evil" • Tracker — Ashton Shaw, Colter's father • 2025 — FBI — Marshal Brad Kimble — Episode: "Unearth"

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