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John Terry (born January 25, 1950) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film, TV, and stage actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

y was born in Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
; his father was a general surgeon in Vero Beach Florida, where he attended high school. He was educated at the prestigious Loomis Chaffee
Loomis Chaffee

The Loomis Chaffee School is a college University-preparatory school for grades 9 through 12 located in historic Windsor, Connecticut, United States It has a total enrollment of 725, 400 boarding and 325 day students, and 150 faculty members....
 prep school in Windsor, Connecticut
Windsor, Connecticut

Windsor is a New England town in Hartford County, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States, and was the first English settlement in the state. It lies on the northern border of Connecticut's capital, Hartford, Connecticut....
, and began a career building original custom log homes in North Carolina
North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
. He played roles in local theater before moving to Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
 where he founded a river rafting company.






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John Terry (born January 25, 1950) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film, TV, and stage actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Biography


Early life

Terry was born in Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
; his father was a general surgeon in Vero Beach Florida, where he attended high school. He was educated at the prestigious Loomis Chaffee
Loomis Chaffee

The Loomis Chaffee School is a college University-preparatory school for grades 9 through 12 located in historic Windsor, Connecticut, United States It has a total enrollment of 725, 400 boarding and 325 day students, and 150 faculty members....
 prep school in Windsor, Connecticut
Windsor, Connecticut

Windsor is a New England town in Hartford County, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States, and was the first English settlement in the state. It lies on the northern border of Connecticut's capital, Hartford, Connecticut....
, and began a career building original custom log homes in North Carolina
North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
. He played roles in local theater before moving to Alaska
Alaska

Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....
 where he founded a river rafting company. But his interest in acting did not diminish and at 30 he moved to New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 and became a full time actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Career

Terry's debut role was as the title character in the 1980 fantasy film Hawk the Slayer
Hawk the Slayer

Hawk the Slayer is a swords and sorcery movie directed by Terry Marcel and starring John Terry and Jack Palance. The protagonist is Hawk, a hero in the Dark Age, where the Evil ruled the world....
. His career then took a major upswing as he was assigned the roles of Lieutenant Lockhart in Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
's Full Metal Jacket
Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket is a war film by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford. The title refers to the full metal jacket bullet type of ammunition used by infantry riflemen....
 and Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter

Felix Leiter is a fictional character created by Ian Fleming in the James Bond series of novels and films. In both, Leiter works for the Central Intelligence Agency, and assists Bond in his various adventures....
 in the James Bond
James Bond

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
 film The Living Daylights
The Living Daylights

The Living Daylights is the fifteenth spy film in the James Bond James Bond , and the first to star Timothy Dalton as the fictional character Secret Intelligence Service agent James Bond ....
. Nothing as prominent followed immediately, though he received good notices for his role as a traumatized Vietnam veteran in Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison

Norman Frederick Jewison, Order of Canada is a Canada film director, Film producer and actor....
's In Country
In Country

In Country is a 1989 in film United States drama produced and directed by Norman Jewison, starring Bruce Willis and Emily Lloyd, a British actress who underwent training to speak with a Kentucky accent in the film....
. Terry subsequently played the lead in a well-regarded but short-lived TV series Against the Grain
Against the Grain

Against the Grain may refer to:Broadcast media:*Against the Grain , 1993 NBC drama series with Ben Affleck*Against the Grain , an interview program on Pacifica Radio station KPFA, Berkeley, hosted by C.S....
 (as Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck is an United Statesn actor, film director and screenwriter. He became known in the mid 1990s, after his involvement in the film Mallrats , and has since become an Academy Award winner for his screenplay in Good Will Hunting in 1997....
's father), as a man who starts a new life as a small-town high-school football coach following a critical illness. He also starred as Slim in a film adaptation of Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize in Literature-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937 in literature, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant worker ranch workers during the Great Depression in California....
.

Recently he has found new success on television. He appeared in the first episodes of ER
ER (TV series)

ER is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States medical drama television series created by the late novelist Michael Crichton and airing on NBC....
 playing Dr. Div Cvetic, the love interest of Dr. Lewis, who disappeared after a nervous breakdown. He later played a recurring role in season two of Fox's real-time thriller 24
24 (TV series)

24 is an United States serial action drama television series. Broadcast by Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial 13 episodes ....
, as Bob Warner, the father of both the love interest of hero Jack Bauer
Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer is the protagonist and anti-hero of the United States television series 24 , in which he has trained and worked in various capacities as a government agent, including US Army Delta Force, LAPD SWAT, CIA, and finally the 24 #Counter Terrorist Unit Los Angeles....
 and of another daughter whose fiancé is suspected of being a terrorist.

After a brief stint on NBC's Las Vegas
Las Vegas (TV series)

Las Vegas was an American television series that aired on NBC from September 22, 2003 to February 15, 2008. The show focuses on a team of people working in the fictional Montecito Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada—dealing with issues that arise within the working environment, ranging from valet parking and restaurant management to casino...
, he was cast as Jack Shephard
Jack Shephard

Dr. Jack Shephard is a fictional character on the American Broadcasting Company television series Lost played by Matthew Fox . Jack is the leader of the crash survivors and the main character of the series....
 and Claire Littleton
Claire Littleton

Claire Littleton is a fictional character played by Emilie de Ravin on the American Broadcasting Company drama television series Lost , which chronicles the lives of the survivors of a plane crash in the Oceania....
's father on ABC's Lost
Lost (TV series)

Lost is an American Serial television program. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial Oceanic Flight 815 flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the Oceania....
. John Terry's character, Christian Shephard
Christian Shephard

Dr. Christian Shephard is a Recurring character fictional character on the American Broadcasting Company television series Lost played by John Terry ....
, is an alcoholic
Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions to describe the detrimental effects of alcohol intake.In common and historic usage, alcoholism refers to any condition that results in the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages despite health problems and negative social consequences....
 surgeon
Surgery

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason....
 who accidentally killed a patient he operated on while drunk; this key event ruined his career, destroyed his relationship with his son, and eventually led to his death. Terry has reprised his role as Shephard on several occasions in flashback
Flashback

In history, film, television and other media, a flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the Plot has reached....
s.

He also had a guest role in a 2006 episode of Law & Order
Law & Order

Law & Order is an United States police procedural and legal drama Television program created by Dick Wolf. It has been broadcast on NBC since its debut on September 13, 1990....
, as well as the part of older Jacob Wheeler in Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. Forbes magazine places Spielberg's net worth at $3.1 billion....
's Into the West
Into the West (TV miniseries)

Into the West is a 2005 miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks, with six two-hour episodes . The series was first broadcast in the U.S....
 mini series, which was nominated for 16 Emmy Awards in 2006.

Recently, Terry appeared in David Fincher
David Fincher

David Leo Fincher is an American, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and music video director known for his dark and stylish movies such as Seven , Fight Club , Zodiac and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button....
's Zodiac
Zodiac (film)

Zodiac is a 2007 in film Cinema of the United States directed by David Fincher and based on Robert Graysmith's non-fiction book Zodiac . The Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros....
 and joined the regular cast of the upcoming ABC production Secrets of a Small Town. He just finished filming Matthew McConaughey's Surfer, Dude.

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