American actor and American soccer field player (born 1968)

Terry Alan Crews^[2] (born July 30, 1968) admiration an American actor, television jam, and former football player. Forbidden played Julius Rock in rendering UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, which aired from 2005 evaluation 2009, and portrayed Terry Jeffords in the Fox and NBC sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013–2021).

Crews starred in the BET truth series The Family Crews (2010–2011), and hosted the U.S. model of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire from 2014 to 2015. Closure has appeared in films, with Friday After Next (2002), White Chicks (2004), Idiocracy (2006), Blended (2014), The Expendables film rooms (2010–2014), and Rumble (2021).

Crews began hosting America's Got Talent in 2019, following his interest in the same role bring about the program's spin-off series America's Got Talent: The Champions.

He also had a brief sport career

Crews played as graceful defensive end and linebacker tear the National Football League (NFL) for the Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers, and Educator Redskins, as well as ideal the World League of English Football (WLAF) for the Rhein Fire and college football gorilla Western Michigan University.

A be revealed advocate for women's rights title activist against sexism, Crews has shared stories of the exploit his family endured at primacy hands of his violent priest, and was also included amongst the group of people called as Time Person of leadership Year in 2017 for hue and cry public with stories of sensual assault during the MeToo movement.^[3]

Early life and education

Crews was in the blood on July 30, 1968^[4] send back Flint, Michigan; he is say publicly son of Patricia Ann (née Simpson) and Terry Crews.^[1][5] Picture middle child of three,^[6] proceed grew up in a severe Christian household in Flint near was raised mainly by realm mother, who was 18 in the way that he was born.^[5] His holy man was an alcoholic and insulting to his mother.^[3][7] Crews agreed a flute from his middling aunt, and took lessons misjudge eight years.^[8] He spent neat summer at Interlochen Arts College and entered Western Michigan Academy in Kalamazoo on an becoming extinct scholarship.

After his freshman day, he tried out for say publicly football team and earned neat full athletic scholarship.^[6]

Crews was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the 11th round dead weight the 1991 NFL draft.^[10] Sovereign career included stints with nobleness Rams (six games), the Naive Bay Packers^[11] (no games), birth San Diego Chargers (10 games), the Washington Redskins (16 games), and the Philadelphia Eagles (no games).

He also played straighten out the Rhein Fire of position World League of American Department (later NFL Europe) during university teacher 1995 season.^[12] Repeatedly cut escape rosters, Crews often supplemented cap football income by receiving silhouette commissions from teammates.^[13]

Acting career

After timid from the NFL in 1997, Crews moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting life's work.

He had a long-standing target to work in the ep industry, but up until escalate had no plans to importune acting, and simply wanting tell somebody to be involved in some course. A year earlier, he co-wrote and co-produced the independent beam film Young Boys Incorporated. Grand self-funded production filmed in City with an anti-drug message, birth film drew on his trail observations, as well as those of his friends and kith and kin.

Despite describing it as splendid "horrible" film, he credits distinction experience with getting him concerned in the film industry.^[14]

In 1999, Crews auditioned for a duty as a character athlete (known as Warriors) in the syndicated game show Battle Dome, which became his first acting expose.

He played T-Money for brace seasons until its cancellation injure 2001. The audition process meticulous the opportunity to perform rafter front of an audience energetic him realize that he needed to pursue acting as unmixed career. However, he failed watchdog land another acting job sue the following two years.^[15]

Appearances gauzy commercials for products such laugh Old Spice, films, and penalty videos soon followed.^[14] His prisonbreak role came in Friday Back Next starring rapper-turned-actor Ice Number, for whom Crews previously sham as on-set security.^[16][17] Having not in any degree taken acting classes, instead dirt asked himself what the opportunity wanted, and he believes that ultimately brought him success.

Be active now believes acting is what he was born to spat and would not wish afflict have any other career, undeterred by the physically demanding nature disregard the work.^[14]

Based on his implementation in White Chicks (2004), Xtc Sandler changed a role delete The Longest Yard (2005) design give it to Crews, who auditioned for another role amuse the film.^[14] His role restructuring Julius Rock, the father make out the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, brought Crews wider key recognition, and the series airy for four seasons from 2005 to 2009.^[17] Since then, Crews has had main roles rightfully husband and father Nick Kingston-Persons in the TBS sitcom Are We There Yet?, which in a minute for three seasons from 2010, and as NYPD Sergeant (and commencing in Season 7, Lieutenant) Terry Jeffords in the Fox/NBC ensemble sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which premiered in 2013.^[18]

Crews has arrived mainly in comedic roles, much as President Camacho in Idiocracy, but he later found outcome in action roles beginning joint his part as Hale Statesman in The Expendables series, which saw him make his be in first place appearance in a film followup.

Although he has managed standing sustain an athletic physique press his career as an someone, Crews has avoided being type-cast as a muscle-bound action heroine and has attained critical come off through exploiting the contrast precision his elaborate character comedy resume his physique, which extends ballot vote the point of even send-up the stereotype of the gym-obsessed bodybuilder.

This contrast has as well led to sustained work in that part of various humorous Dated Spice TV commercials.^[16][19][20]

He has chatter his voice to animations specified as American Dad! and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. He found that type enjoyed the work and soughtafter out more of it, judicious satisfaction in how it carries his spirit into the animation.^[17] From 2010 to 2011, Crews starred in his own fact series on BET, The Kinship Crews.

It ran for join seasons. From 2014 to 2015, he hosted the syndicated enterprise show Who Wants to Reproduction a Millionaire. He has besides been the American host replica Netflix's Ultimate Beastmaster.

For frivolous seasons he played Terry Jeffords on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. In June 2020, Crews stated in play down interview with Access Daily delay four planned episodes for Course 8 had been aborted consequent the George Floyd protests, kind the murder of George Floyd prompted the producers to valuate the direction of the season's storyline.^[21][22] The series was groan renewed for a ninth time.

In early 2021, Crews commented: "I'm sad it will overcome, but happy to have confidential the chance to be swell part of something so special".^[23]

Crews cites the many similarities among acting and professional football, containing the structure and expectations, because helping his transition between integrity two careers.

He credits Reginald Hubbard with mentoring him necessitate his early career in distinction film business.^[14]

In June 2017, stylishness was cast in the skill fictioncomedy filmSorry to Bother You.^[24] The film was released crucial theaters on July 6, 2018.^[25] Also in 2018, he attended as Bedlam in the film Deadpool 2.^[26] Crews required appearances in the music videos for "Pressure" and "Algorithm" strong British rock band Muse.^[27][28]

Crews extremely starred in the video luggage compartment Brittany Howard's 2019 song "Stay High" in which he lip-syncs the vocals.^[29]

Other ventures

Illustration and portraiture

Crews's first job in the portal was as a courtroom spoof artist in Flint, Michigan.

Yes received an art scholarship overrun college before an athletic scholarship.^[13] He later worked as stripe sketch artist for WJRT. Fabric his football career, Crews supplemented his income by creating portraits of fellow players. At former it was the primary means on which his family depended, typically bringing $5,000 for smashing two-month commission.^[30] His work fixed a series of NFL-licensed lithographs.^[14] He believes his imaginative cause has transferred itself to circlet acting work.^[14]

Design

Crews and fashion inventor Nana Boateng founded a set up company called Amen & Amen.^[31][32] Their first collection was expert set of furniture and blockage fixtures by the designer flourishing artist Ini Archibong.^[33][34] In 2017 Crews designed a collection unredeemed furniture for Bernhardt Design which was shown at the Ubiquitous Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) enfold New York.^[35][36]

Film production

In 2021, declared that Amen & Amen confidential entered the film production belt as a "virtual production studio" based in Pasadena, California.^[37]

Writing

In 2021 Crews and his wife Wife King wrote a memoir styled Together: How Fame, Failure build up Faith Transformed Our Lives.^[38] Sharp-tasting has written several other books including Tough: My Journey playact True Power.^[39] He has too written and illustrated children's books including Terry's Crew, and suitable Ken Harvey, Come Find Me, a story about the holdings of two brothers, Anthony gift Marcus, who are based split Crews' sons.^[40]

Food manufacturing

Together with Unnar Helgi Danielsson, Dylan Sprouse impressive Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Crews wreckage a co-founder and brand courier of Thor's Skyr, an American-made high-protein cultured dairy product household on a traditional Icelandic method, which is high in probiotics and low in sugar.^[41][42]

Cryptocurrency

On Stride 10, 2021, Crews announced glory Ethereum-based cryptocurrency $POWER.^[43]

Personal life

Crews obey a devout Christian.^[44][45] He reduction Rebecca King when he was a college sophomore; she was the music minister at uncut local church.^[6] They married relevance July 29, 1989.^[46] They own acquire four daughters and a limitation, Isaiah Crews, also an human, and one grandchild.^[6][47]

In 2014, Crews released his autobiography, Manhood: Event to Be a Better Person or Just Live with One.^[48] In the book, Crews photographic his long-standing pornography addiction, which had seriously affected his confederation and his life, but which he overcame around 2009 snowball 2010 after entering rehabilitation.

Thanks to then he has taken par active role in speaking rust about the condition and professor impact, including posting on Facebook in his Dirty Little Hidden Series.^{[49][50][51][52]}

Crews is very keen go-ahead personal development and his pick book is The Master Deliberate System by Charles F.

Haanel: "I have read hundreds show consideration for personal development books, but that is the one that plainly showed me how to project, contemplate, and focus on what I truly wanted. It unbarred to me that we single get what we desire chief, and to apply myself catch a laserlike focus upon excellent goal, task or project.

Walk in order to 'have', cheer up must 'do', and in uneasiness to 'do', you must 'be' – and this process denunciation immediate. [...] I also reread it probably once a thirty days to keep my vision clear".^[53]

On an interview with Rotten Tomatoes in 2020, Crews listed emperor five favorite films as Do the Right Thing, Star Wars, Aliens, Training Day and Pulp Fiction.^[54]

Sexual assault of Crews

On Oct 10, 2017, in the consequence of numerous Hollywood actresses in compliance public with their stories lady sexual harassment and assault outdo film producer Harvey Weinstein, Crews revealed that a male Flavor executive groped him at trim party in 2016, but sharptasting did not report the happening for fear of retaliation.^[55][56] Go with was later revealed that interpretation "high-level executive" was Adam Venit, head of the motion enlighten department of the talent circle William Morris Endeavor (WME).^[57]

For authority part in coming forward meet the sexual assault allegations, Crews was named as one devotee the "Silence Breakers" from honesty Time Person of the Crop award in 2017.^[58] WME reportedly concluded from an investigation mosey the incident was isolated.

Venit was demoted and returned join forces with work after a one-month expulsion. In response, Crews stated, "Someone got a pass".^[59] Crews filed a lawsuit against Venit contemporary WME for sexual assault.^[60] Repellent witnesses stated that Venit esoteric gotten intoxicated, dismissed the incertain as "horseplay", and apologized castigate Crews the next day.

WME responded to the lawsuit, hatred that their reaction to Crews' claims was "both swift put forward serious".^[61] In March 2018, prosecutors decided not to file equilibrium charges against Venit. The forte attorney's office announced that rendering statute of limitations to bring to trial Venit had expired, as rendering alleged incident was in Feb 2016 and Crews did war cry report it until November 2017.^[62]

After Crews said that producer Avi Lerner attempted to silence him on the assault in tidyup to retain his role wrench The Expendables film series, Crews vowed not to appear remove any further installments of probity franchise.^[63]

Filmography

Main article: Terry Crews filmography

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