Terrence was born in Cleveland, Ohio on November 5, 1934, during a particularly memorable moment in his father's career with the Keith Vaudeville Circuit. The entourage that accompanied his father to the hospital was a veritable who's who of show business notables, including Phil Silvers, Gene Krupa, and double talk artist Al Kelly. His mother, Marie Duke, was a dancer and choreographer who had appeared on Broadway in the John Murray Anderson Extravaganza, "Winter Nights".
Terrence cut his teeth in the theatrical world at the legendary Poet's Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while attending Harvard College. After graduating from Harvard, he became a resident actor at Boston's Charles Playhouse, where he had the opportunity to work alongside a talented group of actors, including Olympia Dukakis, Charles Keating, Al Pacino, Louis Zorich, and Jill Clayburgh. Over the course of ten years and forty productions, Terrence honed his craft and developed a strong foundation in his craft.
When the resident company at the Charles Playhouse disbanded, Terrence made the move to Washington, D.C. and became a member of the acting company at the prestigious Arena Stage, where he appeared in over 80 productions. When the resident company was disbanded once again, Terrence traveled to New York and managed to snag a role in the ill-fated "Annie 2". However, his good fortune was not far down the road, as he was soon cast in the revival of "Damn Yankees", which played for five months at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego and 19 months on Broadway alongside Bebe Neuwirth as Lola and Victor Garber as the Devil.
One year into the run of "Damn Yankees", the irrepressible Jerry Lewis joined the cast as the Devil, wowing all 35 members of the cast by knowing everyone's first name. In between his work on stage, Terrence has managed to sandwich in several feature films and has appeared on television in a wide range of shows, including Homicide, The Wire, Dawsons Creek, All My Children, One Life To Live, the CBS mini-series "George Washington" (1984),"A Woman Named Jackie", "Bridges To Cross", the PBS blockbuster "The Civil War", and has done three L.A. Theater Works radio dramas with Ed Asner, Marcia Mason, and Fred Thompson.
