John Terry
From LOST
| John Terry | ||||
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| Name | John Terry | |||
| Birthplace | Unknown | |||
| Date of Birth | Unknown | |||
| Role on LOST | Christian Shephard | |||
| IMDB | John Terry at IMDB | |||
[edit] Summary
John Terry portrayed the role of "Christian Shephard" on LOST.
John Terry is an American actor who was educated at the prestigious Loomis Chaffee prep school in Windsor, Connecticut.
John Terry, born in Florida, began a career building original custom log homes in North Carolina. He played roles in local theater before moving to Alaska where he founded a river rafting company. But his interest in acting did not diminish and at 30 he moved to New York City and became a full time actor.
Terry's debut role was as the title character in the 1980 fantasy film Hawk the Slayer. His career then took a major upswing as he was assigned the roles of Lieutenant Lockhart in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and Felix Leiter in the James Bond film The Living Daylights. Nothing as prominent followed immediately, though he received good notices for his role as a traumatized Vietnam veteran in Norman Jewison's In Country. Terry subsequently played the lead in a well-regarded but short-lived TV series Against the Grain (as Ben Affleck's father), as a man who starts a new life as a small-town high-school football coach following a critical illness.
Recently he has found new success on television. He appeared in the first episodes of ER 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, as Bob Warner, the father of both the love interest of hero Jack Bauer and of another daughter whose fiancé is suspected of being a terrorist.
After a brief stint on NBC's Las Vegas, he was cast as Jack Shephard's father on ABC's Lost. Terry's character, Christian Shephard, is an alcoholic surgeon 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 flashbacks.
He also recently had a guest role in a 2006 episode of Law & Order, as well as the part of older Jacob Wheeler in Steven Spielberg's Into the West mini series, which was nominated for 16 Emmy Awards in 2006.
Recently, John Terry joined the regular cast of upcoming ABC production Secrets of a Small Town (2006) and just finished filming David Fincher's Zodiac.
His home is currently Park City, Utah, where he lives with his two children, Hannah and J.C.
[edit] Episodes Appeared In
Appears as Christian Shephard in:
