Terry Kinney
Terry Kinney was an American stage, film and TV actor who was also well-known for being one of the co-founders, along with Jeff Perry and Gary Sinise, of the legendary Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. Born into a working class family in Lincoln, Illinois, Kinney always dreamt of becoming an actor. By the time he entered college at Illinois State University in the early 1970s, that dream only intensified. Then one day in 1973 while attending a production of "Grease" their mutual friend Gary Sinise was starring in, Kinney and Jeff Perry decided to team up with Sinise to form a brand new theater company. They called it the Steppenwolf Theatre, and set up shop in a church basement in Highland Park, Illinois. Together, the three of them put on performances for the next three years on a part-time basis as they finished college. The Steppenwolf Theatre became a full-time endeavor for Kinney and his two co-founders in 1976 after the three of them had graduated college. Kinney spent the next decade focusing primarily on building Steppenwolf into a powerhouse theater company, which it would eventually become in the 1980s. Kinney was a stage actor, first and foremost, but by the mid-1980s, with Steppenwolf gaining a positive reputation in the theater world, Kinney began nabbing various screen acting roles in films like "A Walk on the Moon" (1987), "The Last of the Mohicans" (1992), and "Sleepers" (1996). Then in 1997 Kinney landed his breakout acting role on the HBO prison series "Oz" (HBO, 1997-2003). He played Tim McManus on all six seasons of the show, which ended in 2003. Throughout the 2000s and 2010s Kinney worked steadily in both films and on TV. In 2009 he nabbed a recurring role on "The Mentalist" (CBS, 2008-2015), and followed that up with a recurring roles on "Fargo" (FX, 2014- ), as well as the critically-acclaimed HBO mini-series "Show Me a Hero" (2015). In 2016 Kinney joined the cast of the Showtime series "Billions" (Showtime, 2016- ). That series, about two prominent figures in the high-stakes world of New York finance, also starred Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis.
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Filmography
Movies
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The Bride in the Box | Unknown (Character) | - | 2022 |
44% |
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The Little Things | LASD Captain Carl Farris (Character) | $14.7M | 2021 |
23% |
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Mile 22 | Johnny Porter (Character) | $36.1M | 2018 |
0% |
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November Criminals | Principal Karlstadt (Character) | - | 2017 |
79% |
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Abundant Acreage Available | Jesse (Character) | - | 2017 |
49% |
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I Smile Back | Dr. Page (Character) | $57.7K | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Armed Man | Pinky (Character) | - | 2014 |
53% |
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Promised Land | David Churchill (Character) | $7.6M | 2012 |
34% |
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Diminished Capacity | Director | $21.3K | 2008 |
62% |
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Turn the River | Markus (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Runaway | Dr. Maxim (Character) | - | 2005 |
26% |
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The Game of Their Lives | Dent McSkimming (Character) | $375.5K | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution | Detective Neil O'Hara (Character) | - | 2005 |
92% |
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The Laramie Project | Dennis Shephard (Character) | - | 2002 |
54% |
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Save the Last Dance | Roy (Character) | $91.0M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Midwives | Rand Danforth (Character) | - | 2001 |
82% |
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The House of Mirth | George Dorset (Character) | $3.0M | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Championship Season | James Daly (Character) | - | 1999 |
53% |
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The Young Girl and the Monsoon | Hank (Character) | $8.8K | 1999 |
77% |
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Oxygen | Tim (Character) | - | 1999 |
53% | No Score Yet | Luminous Motion | Pedro (Character) | $51.4K | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Don't Look Down | Dr. Paul Sadowski (Character) | - | 1998 |
73% |
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Sleepers | Ralph Ferguson (Character) | $53.3M | 1996 |
88% |
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Fly Away Home | David Alden (Character) | $24.6M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Critical Choices | Lloyd (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | White Lies | Richard (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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The Good Old Boys | Walter Calloway (Character) | - | 1995 |
92% |
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Devil in a Blue Dress | Todd Carter (Character) | $15.9M | 1995 |
71% |
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Body Snatchers | Steve Malone (Character) | $54.8K | 1993 |
76% |
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The Firm | Lamar Quinn (Character) | $157.0M | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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Talent for the Game | Gil Lawrence (Character) | $112.5K | 1991 |
30% |
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Queens Logic | Jeremy (Character) | $301.6K | 1991 |
60% |
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Miles From Home | Mark (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Walk on the Moon | Lew Ellis (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder Ordained | Pastor Tom Bird (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Seven Minutes in Heaven | Bill the Photographer (Character) | - | 1986 |
31% |
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No Mercy | Paul Deveneux (Character) | $11.3M | 1986 |
TV
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54% | 35% | The Watcher | Jasper (Character) | 2022 |
64% | 38% | Inventing Anna | Barry (Character) | 2022 |
72% | 75% | Electric Dreams | Mr Dick (Character) | 2018 |
78% | 91% | Good Behavior | Christian (Character) | 2016-2017 |
26% | 61% | Black Box | Dr. Owen Morely (Character) | 2014 |
95% | 89% | Elementary | Martin Ennis (Guest Star) | 2013 |
21% | 43% | The Mob Doctor | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
43% | No Score Yet | NYC 22 | Daniel "Yoda" Dean (Character) | 2012 |
77% | 89% | Being Human | Heggeman (Guest Star) | 2011-2012 |
93% | 90% | The Good Wife | Gerald Kozko (Guest Star) | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 90% | The Mentalist | Sam Bosco (Guest Star) | 2009 |
72% | 100% | The Unusuals | Sgt. Harvey Brown (Character) | 2009 |
58% | No Score Yet | Canterbury's Law | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 82% | CSI: New York | Tom Mitford (Guest Star) | 2004 |
93% | 95% | Oz |
Tim McManus (Character), Director |
1997-2003 |
91% | 90% | Homicide: Life on the Street | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
83% | No Score Yet | thirtysomething | Steve Woodman (Guest Star) | 1987-1989 |
71% | 89% | Miami Vice | Asst. State Atty. William Pepin (Guest Star) | 1986 |