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Terry Crews (born July 30, 1968 in Flint, Michigan) is an American actor and former football player.

A Flint native, Crews' earned an Art Excellence Scholarship to attend the Interlochen Center for the Arts and then Western Michigan University. While completing his studies as an Art major, Terry was a key member of the WMU football team, where he earned all-conference honors as a defensive end. Crews was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL in the 11th round of the 1991 draft. He carved out a career that lasted six seasons, including stints with the Green Bay Packers, San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles, and the Washington Redskins.

After retiring in 1997, Terry pursued an acting career, playing the beefcake "he-man" in movies such as White Chicks. A stint as T-Money on Battle Dome (modeled on American Gladiators) followed. He is probably most noted for playing Damon in Friday After Next, featuring Ice Cube and Mike Epps. He now stars in the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris on the CW, and his latest movie appearances were alongside Adam Sandler in The Longest Yard and Click. Crews also recently appeared in another Adam Sandler production - The Benchwarmers with Rob Schneider and David Spade, as well as the long delayed Mike Judge film Idiocracy, where he plays President Camacho. Terry lives in Pasadena with his wife of seventeen years, Rebecca a former beauty queen and Christian recording artist, and five children.

Before most of this, he was a guest star on the sitcom My Wife and Kids. He played as a personal trainer trying to train Michael Kyle to lose weight and gain muscle, only having ending up too sore to move the next day for Michael after an extreme work out.

Trivia

• In The Longest Yard, he stars with Chris Rock but on Everbody Hates Chris, Terry plays Chris Rock's father.
• Crews has a cameo appearance in Blink-182's music video 'Down'. In the video he plays the part of a police officer in pursuit of a criminal.
• He was also featured in Denzel Washington's 2001 movie Training Day, where he appeared to be massive.
• He appears in Soul Plane as the bodyguard who tells Elvis Hunkee (Tom Arnold) about his daughters.
• He has a very large tongue. He shows it off while dating one the white chicks in the movie, White Chicks, and also in the single scene he appeared in Click.
• Terry Crews appears in The Benchwarmers as a person who was bullied by Gus Matthews, despite Terry's enormous size. But it was later found out that he was emotionally bullied by verbal assault from Gus.

External links

• Terry Crews Official Site
• Terry Crews at the Internet Movie Database
• Terry's Bio on CWTV.com

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