Lee Tergesen Biography
Lee Tergesen is an American actor best known for his roles in the television programs Weird Science, Oz, Generation Kill, and others. He also played in Wayne’s World, Wayne’s World 2, and Monster.
How old is Lee Tergesen? – Age
He is 58 years old as of 8 July 2023. He was born in 1965 in Ivoryton, Essex, Connecticut, United States. His real name is Lee Allen Tergesen.
Lee Tergesen Family – Education
Tergesen grew up in Ivoryton, Connecticut, and attended Valley Regional High School in Deep River. He relocated to New York in order to pursue a career as an actor. He graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy’s (AMDA) two-year program in Manhattan, where he worked at the Empire Diner from 1986 to 1989.
Lee Tergesen Wife
In 2011, Tergesen married Yuko Otomo. Their daughter was born on December 5, 2012, and their boy in 2017.
Lee Tergesen Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.
Lee Tergesen Monster
He appeared as as Vincent Corey in the 2003 American biographical crime drama film Monster. Aileen Wuornos, a street prostitute, meets Selby Wall in a homosexual club in 1989 and falls in love with him. Aileen murders Vincent Corey in self-defense and ends her prostitution career, but Selby rejects her owing to her lack of education and work experience.
Aileen reverts to prostitution, robs and murders her johns, saves one man, and uses the money she steals from her victims to maintain Selby and herself. Selby accuses Aileen of the murders and confronts her, but she denies it. Selby takes a charter bus back to Ohio, where she is contacted by bounty hunters Thomas and Aileen. Aileen is arrested and confesses to the cops, but Selby goes on to testify against her. Aileen is convicted of the murders and condemned to death; she is executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002.
Lee Tergesen Oz
He appeared as Tobias Beecher, the protagonist and primary inmate featured in Oz. Tobias Beecher, a Harvard Law School graduate, is a successful attorney, husband, and parent, but he is also an alcoholic. He drives intoxicated one night — something he had already been arrested for before — and hits and murders Cathy Rockwell, a nine-year-old girl.
He is offered a plea bargain that would have allowed him to serve his sentence in a minimal security prison, but Beecher refuses, preferring to go to trial and seek an acquittal. The effort fails, and the judge, a family friend of the Beechers, decides to make an example of him, sentencing him to 15 years in a maximum security jail with the possibility of parole after four years.
Beecher’s personal change drives the majority of the drama in the program, especially in season one. He became a target for abuse after arriving in Oz with no street skills and a naturally timid nature, and his experiences, notably with his archnemesis, Vern Schillinger, hardened him. He subsequently says that in Oz, he “became the man he had always been but never knew.”
Lee Tergesen Generation Kill
Tergesen played embedded reporter Evan Wright in the American seven-part television miniseries Generation Kill. Though he is simply referred to as “reporter” or “Rolling Stone” throughout the series. Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright is embedded with Marines preparing to attack Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. First Recon Marines adjust to changing offensive plans and anticipate adversary contacts in Nasiriyah and Al Gharraf.
Alpha Company shells Ar Rifa, while Bravo Company survives their first fire trial. Bravo confronts resistance and hurdles despite intelligence about an ambush-in-waiting near a critical bridge. They are tasked with escorting hundreds of citizens fleeing Baghdad, many of whom are doubting their role in the conflict. Lt. Col. Ferrando intends to reactivate the Marines. Bravo Company is taken aback by the magnitude of Baghdad and discovers larger barriers than they could have imagined.
Lee Tergesen Movies
♦ 2017 – The Yellow Birds
♦ 2017 – Norman Pinski Come Home
♦ 2016 – Equity
♦ 2015 – Tooken
♦ 2014 – Desert Cathedral
♦ 2012 – Red Tails
♦ 2012 – No One Lives
♦ 2012 – The Collection
♦ 2011 – Silver Tongues
♦ 2011 – 2ND Take
♦ 2010 – Helena from the Wedding
♦ 2008 – Pineapple
♦ 2006 – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
♦ 2005 – Extreme Dating
♦ 2004 – The Forgotten
♦ 2003 – Monster
♦ 2002 – Bark!
Lee Tergesen TV Shows
♦ 2022 – The Equalizer
♦ 2022 – A Friend Of The Family
♦ 2021 – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
♦ 2019 – Bull
♦ 2019 – Watchmen
♦ 2018 – Jack Ryan
♦ 2018 – The Purge
♦ 2018 – Daredevil
♦ 2017–2018 – Gone
♦ 2017 – Doubt
♦ 2016–2017 – The Get Down
♦ 2016–2017 – Outcast
♦ 2016–2017 – Power
♦ 2016 – NCIS: New Orleans
♦ 2016 – High Maintenance
♦ 2016 – The Strain
♦ 2016 – Elementary
♦ 2016 – Blindspot