Terry Crews

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Terry Crews
Terry Crews by Gage Skidmore 5.jpg
Terry Crews at Comic-Con 2017
Positions:
Defensive End /
Linebacker 		Jersey numbers:
51, 90, 94
born July 30, 1968 in Flint , Michigan
Career information
Active : 1991 - 1996
NFL Draft : 1991 / Round: 11 / Pick: 281
College : Western Michigan
Teams
* Offseason and / or Practice Squad member only
Career statistics
Games played     32
Stats at NFL.com
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards

  • No notable successes

Terry Alan Crews (born July 30, 1968 in Flint , Michigan ) is an American actor and former American football player . He played in the National Football League (NFL) as a linebacker and defensive end .

Life and accomplishments

Crews studied at Western Michigan University , where he also played American football. In 1991, he was by the Los Angeles Rams in the eleventh round of the 281st spot drafted . After two positions with the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers, he played for Düsseldorf Rhein Fire in 1995. In the same year he was the player with the most sacks on his team. The Washington Redskins then became aware of him and signed him. After a year he was briefly in the Practice Squad of the Philadelphia Eagles. After the 1996 season he ended his career.

Crews became known as an actor for his role in The 6th Day , in which Arnold Schwarzenegger played the lead role. In the comedy Norbit , he starred opposite Eddie Murphy and Thandie Newton .

Crews was nominated for a Teen Choice Award in 2006 for his role in the television series Everyone Hates . In 2006 and 2007 he was nominated for the Image Award .

He also starred in the band blink-182's music video for Down in 2004 .

In 2010 he starred with Sylvester Stallone , Bruce Willis , Mickey Rourke , Arnold Schwarzenegger , Dolph Lundgren , Jason Statham and Jet Li for the film The Expendables , directed by Sylvester Stallone, as well as in the 2012 and 2014 sequels The Expendables 2 or The Expendables 3 . In addition, Crews was featured in an advertising campaign for the Old Spice men's grooming range in 2010 and again in 2017.

Since 2013 he has played the role of Detective Sergeant Terence "Terry" Jeffords on the US sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine .

Terry Crews spoke to a US Senate committee at the end of June 2018 about a sexual attack he himself experienced in 2016 in connection with a bill to better protect victims of sexual abuse.

Filmography (selection)

Video games

Web links

Commons : Terry Crews  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0187719/otherworks
  2. ↑ Spiegel Online from June 27, 2018
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej5AQBfNKd0
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xF0r8D-OmA
personal data
SURNAME Crews, Terry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crews, Terry Alan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and former American football player
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Flint , Michigan , United States