Terry Kinney

Terry Kinney was born on 29th January 1954 to Kenneth and Elizabeth Kinney in the City of Lincoln, Illinois, United States. He attended Illinois State University when he watched the performance of Grease, which drew his attention to the field of acting and direction. Along with his high school buddies Jeff Perry Jeff Perry is an American actor who has performed >> Read More... and Gary Sinise An actor, director and a brilliant musician, Gary >> Read More... , Kinney was a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre. In 1976, he directed Harold Pinter's debut one-act play.

There was the start of his acting and director careers. Kinney's portrayal in One-Armed Man earned him the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor-Short Film in 2014. Terry Kinney married Elizabeth Perkins Elizabeth Perkins took birth on November 18, 1960, >> Read More... , a Primetime Emmy Award-winning actress, in 1984, but the couple divorced in 1988.

Five years later, he married Kathryn Erbe and had two kids, namely, Maeve Elsbeth Erbe Kinney and Carson Lincoln Kinney, in 1995 and 2003, respectively. The couple decided to end the marriage after 13 years in 2006. Terry last played the role of Captain Farris in the 2021 Denzel Washington Born as Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. on December 2 >> Read More... starred, The Little Things, which is available on Amazon Prime Video.
Kinney has worked with such as Richard Gere Richard Gere is an American actor, known for his o >> Read More... , Tom Cruise One of Hollywood’s best; Built his name in enterta >> Read More... , and Adrien Brody Adrien Brody was born in a place called Woodhaven >> Read More... throughout his career. He has been in this industry for 45 years and intends to stay in the field and continue making art.

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Terry Kinney (born January 29, 1954) is an American actor and theatre director. He established the Steppenwolf Theater Company in 1974 with John Malkovich, Laurie Metcalf, Gary Sinise, and Jeff Perry. Kinney is most famous for his work as Emerald City Oz book series, written by L. Frank Baum, inspired >> Read More... creator Tim McManus on HBO's jail drama Oz. 

He has directed a few plays and acted in a few. In 1985 he worked in the Drama Desk Award-winning play Balm in Gilead by Lanford Wilson. In 1996 Kinney played Tilden in the Sam Shepard play Buried Child directed by Gary Sinise. During a presentation of Buried Child, Kinney had a "horrendous, terrible, shouting fit of anxiety" and remained offstage for a long time, just returning in 2002 in an exhibition with Kurt Elling. He directed Richard Greenberg's play Well-Appointed Room in 2006 and Neil Labute's Reasons to be pretty in 2009. In 2010 he directed one more Lanford Wilson play, Fifth of July for Bay Street Theatre (July) and the Williamstown Theater Festival (August). 

In October–November 2012, Kinney directed Checkers, a new play by Douglas McGrath at the Vineyard Theater, New York City. He directed Lyle Kessler's play Collision in January 2013 at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. 

Kinney performed on TV in 1986 in Miami Vice. In 1987, he featured as Pastor Tom Bird in the CBS miniseries Murder Ordained opposite JoBeth Williams. He is famous for his role, Tim McManus on HBO's jail drama Oz. 

In 1995, Kinney featured with  Tommy Lee Jones Tommy Lee Jones was born on 15th September, 1946 i >> Read More...  in an Elmer Kelton western novel titled The Good Old Boys. Tommy Lee Jones directed this for TV, which co-starred Sissy Spacek, Matt Damon, Sam Shepard, Wilford Brimley, and H. Joaquin Jackson. 

He attended Illinois State University, where he became companions with Jeff Perry. From 1984 to 1988, Kinney was married to Elizabeth Perkins. From 1993 to 2005, he was married to his Oz co-star Kathryn Erbe, with whom he has a daughter Maeve (b. 1995), and a son, Carson (b. 2003).