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Most Recent Role: Deputy Attorney General Zach Williams on Canterbury's Law
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Lincoln, Illinois
Birthday: 1-29-1954
Terry Kinney, the stage, film and television actor, was born on January 29, 1954 in Lincoln, Illinois and attended Illinois State University. While at university, his friend, the aspiring actor Jeff Perry, took Kinney to Chicago to see a production of "Grease" in which his best friend, Gary Sinise, was appearing. The like-minded trio of Sinise, Perry and Kinney opened their own Chicago...

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Canterbury's Law
Trade-Off
Friday 11 April 2008 on FOX

Feeling defeated, Elizabeth is ready to make a deal with Deputy Attorney General Zach Williams and face jail time. She just doesn't want to be disbarred. Russell, Chester and Molly won't let her go down so easy, so they plan to use an old murder case against Deputy Attorney General Zach Williams.

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He lists his personal heroes as being, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, and firemen. (edit)
In high school he was voted class president. (edit)
Before he was bald, he had blonde hair. He also has blue eyes. (edit)
Terry has been a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company since its founding in 1974. (edit)
Terry drove a school bus while pursuing his acting career. (edit)

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Terry Kinney: I just turned down a huge miniseries, which was this disaster movie that I started reading, and I got to the point where there's a hurricane over Lake Michigan, and I just closed it. I said to myself, "I think I've read enough." But when I called to tell them no, they said, "But, you know, it's this huge amount of money." And I thought, "Wow. I mean, I'm a whore like everybody else; maybe I could live with this. Where is it filming again?" They said, "Winnipeg." And I said, "See, we're going backwards now. If it were Toronto I might just whore myself." And they said, "Oh no, Winnipeg's a booming metropolis now." And I was like, "Oh come on, even you don't believe that. Have you ever been there?" (edit)
[On the writers of The LAByrinth Theatre]:
Terry Kinney: It's a great thing when writers have the sensitivity to write well for a specific group of actors, which comes out of working together over an extended period of time. I think that's something we could do much more often, frankly. (edit)

Other Appearances

 
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Oz
Tim McManus (episodes 1 - 26, 28-56)
The Unusuals
Sgt. Harvey Brown
Recurring Role
Canterbury's Law
Deputy Attorney General Zach Williams
thirtysomething
Steve Woodman
Guest Star
CSI: NY
Officer Blue
District Attorney Tom Mitford
CSI: NY
A Man a Mile
District Attorney Tom Mitford
Homicide: Life on the Street
Map of the Heart
Richard Laumer
Kidnapped
Sorry Wrong Number
James 'Sully' Sullivan
Kojak
None So Blind
Law & Order
Driven
Clifford Chester
Director
Oz
Wheel of Fortune
Oz
Cruel and Unusual Punishments
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