Terry Crews
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A native of Flint, MI, who played in the NFL for seven years before segueing into film, athlete-turned-actor Terry Crews made his television debut on the small-screen sports entertainment show Battle Dome and has since moved on to appear in films by such disparate directors as David Lynch, Mike Judge, and David Ayer.During high school, Crews studied at Interlochen Art Academy, and he continued on to Western Michigan University for college; it was during his freshman year that he first took to the gridiron, and after making an impression as a Mid-American Conference defensive end, he solidified his reputation as a star player by leading his team to the Mid-American Conference championship in 1988. Crews married longtime wife Rebecca the day before his 21st birthday, and later went on to have an impressive professional football career while playing for the L.A. Rams, the San Diego Chargers, and the Washington Redskins. Though he had originally intended to become a special-effects artist, Crews gradually became aware of the power of his onscreen charisma when he accepted a role in the short-lived television series Battle Dome in 1999. Despite the fact that only a few episodes of the seires ever made it to the airwaves, the experience left Crews convinced that he had found his calling.Few lifelong actors could even dream of landing roles in such major motion pictures as The 6th Day, Training Day, and Friday After Next so early in their careers, but that's precisely what Crews did, and he has never looked back since. The actor's hulking frame made him an ideal candidate for intimidating onscreen figures, and his disarming sense of humor has found him developing a distinct comic persona in such films as Starsky & Hutch, Soul Plane, White Chicks, and The Longest Yard while also winning over viewers on the small screen with his role as Chris Rock's father on Everybody Hates Chris. As a supporting player, Crews consistently impresses, with his little-seen role as former professional wrestler-turned-President of the United States in Beavis and Butt-Head creator Judge's Idiocracy (2006) offering a telling example of how far he is willing to go to get a laugh. That same year, Crews showed his impressive range by making a brief appearance in surrealist specialist Lynch's Inland Empire, with comic roles in Norbit, Who's Your Caddy?, and Balls of Fury following in short order.2008 proved a busy year for Crews. In addition to his continued work on Everybody Hates Chris, he co-starred in the police drama Street Kings, as well as director Peter Segal's revamp of the classic comedy series Get Smart. Crews played a member of a motley gang of mercenaries in 2010's action blockbuster The Expendables (he reprised this role for the film's sequel in 2012).
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Rumble |
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— | 2022 |
0% | John Henry |
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— | 2020 |
88% | LA Originals |
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— | 2020 |
91% | The Willoughbys |
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— | 2020 |
55% | Once Upon a Deadpool |
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— | 2018 |
93% | Sorry to Bother You |
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— | 2018 |
84% | Deadpool 2 |
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— | 2018 |
20% | Where's the Money |
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— | 2017 |
27% | Sandy Wexler |
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— | 2017 |
0% | The Ridiculous 6 |
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— | 2015 |
4% | Reach Me |
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— | 2014 |
32% | The Expendables 3 |
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$34.8M | 2014 |
15% | Blended |
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— | 2014 |
60% | Draft Day |
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$21.2M | 2014 |
18% | The Single Moms Club |
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$16M | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Veggietales: Celery Night Fever |
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— | 2014 |
71% | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 |
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$119.8M | 2013 |
4% | Scary Movie 5 |
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$32.1M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Aztec Warrior |
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— | 2013 |
67% | The Expendables 2 |
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$85.1M | 2012 |
90% | Bridesmaids |
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$166.6M | 2011 |
34% | Lottery Ticket |
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$24.8M | 2010 |
42% | The Expendables |
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$103M | 2010 |
40% | Middle Men |
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$0.8M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Janky Promoters |
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— | 2009 |
30% | Gamer |
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$20.5M | 2009 |
33% | Terminator Salvation |
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$125.3M | 2009 |
51% | Get Smart |
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$130.3M | 2008 |
36% | Street Kings |
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$26.4M | 2008 |
21% | Balls of Fury |
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$32.9M | 2007 |
6% | Who's Your Caddy? |
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$5.6M | 2007 |
29% | How to Rob a Bank |
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— | 2007 |
9% | Norbit |
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$95.4M | 2007 |
48% | Harsh Times |
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$3.4M | 2006 |
74% | Idiocracy |
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$0.4M | 2006 |
13% | The Benchwarmers |
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$57.7M | 2006 |
57% | Lies & Alibis |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Puff, Puff, Pass |
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— | 2006 |
31% | The Longest Yard |
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$157.9M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Battle Night: The Krump Wars |
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— | 2005 |
15% | White Chicks |
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$69.2M | 2004 |
18% | Soul Plane |
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$14M | 2004 |
62% | Starsky & Hutch |
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$87.2M | 2004 |
91% | Baadasssss! |
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$0.3M | 2003 |
31% | Malibu's Most Wanted |
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$34.4M | 2003 |
44% | Deliver Us From Eva |
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$17.4M | 2003 |
26% | Friday After Next |
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$33M | 2002 |
4% | Serving Sara |
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$16.9M | 2002 |
40% | The 6th Day |
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$33.9M | 2000 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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100% |
Craig of the Creek
2018-2019
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80% |
Helpsters
2019
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No Score Yet |
Celebrity Family Feud
2015-2020
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No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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95% |
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2013-2020
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No Score Yet |
America's Got Talent
2006
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
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No Score Yet |
Jay Leno's Garage
2015-2020
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No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Trevor Noah
2015
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
Conan
2010
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No Score Yet |
Desus & Mero (2016)
2016-2018
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No Score Yet |
Today
2017-2019
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No Score Yet |
Ultimate Beastmaster
2017-2018
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No Score Yet |
Harry
2016-2018
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No Score Yet |
StarTalk
2015-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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No Score Yet |
The $100,000 Pyramid
2016-2019
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100% |
The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore
2015-2016
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No Score Yet |
The Chew
2011-2018
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No Score Yet |
FABLife
2015-2016
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No Score Yet |
Lip Sync Battle
2015-2019
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No Score Yet |
World's Funniest Fails
2015
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No Score Yet |
American Dad (target for inaccurate feed data)
2005
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
Chelsea Lately
2007-2014
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No Score Yet |
Tavis Smiley
2013-2018
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No Score Yet |
Drunk History
2013
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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No Score Yet |
The Wendy Williams Show
2008-2020
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No Score Yet |
Hollywood Game Night
2013
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No Score Yet |
Regular Show
2010-2018
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
Ultimate Spider-Man
2012-2014
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No Score Yet |
Stars Earn Stripes
2012
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59% |
The Newsroom
2012-2014
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No Score Yet |
Are We There Yet?
2010-2012
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No Score Yet |
Lopez Tonight
2009-2011
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No Score Yet |
The Mo'Nique Show
2009-2011
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95% |
Everybody Hates Chris
2005-2009
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48% |
The Boondocks
2005-2014
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No Score Yet |
My Wife and Kids
2001-2005
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No Score Yet |
All of Us
2003-2007
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Miami
2002-2012
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No Score Yet |
The District
2000-2004
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No Score Yet |
America's Got Talent: The Champions
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67% |
Lego Masters
2020
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No Score Yet |
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2002)
2002-2019
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Quotes from Terry Crews' Characters
Earl Devereaux: | Triple decaf mochachino-boba-latte with skim soy and nutmeg sprinkle? |
Earl Devereaux: | This is enough to make a grown man cry. There you go tear. |
Earl: | That was the cheese. |
Earl: | Stand back i'm gonna cut the cheese. |
Trench: | I need a big weapon. [He looks at Hale's gun.] Yours! |
Trench: | I need a big weapon. [he looks at Hale's gun.] Yours! |
Hale Caesar: | My big weapons stays right where it is. [Trench takes his gun anyway] If I don’t get this back, your ass is terminated! |
Hale Caesar: | My big weapons stays right where it is. [Trench takes his gun anyway] If I don't get this back, your ass is terminated! |
Trench: | In your dreams. |
Hale Caesar: | Remember this shit at christmas!! |
Hale Caesar: | Remember this shit at Christmas! |
Mr. Wong: | [Before Rasputia can kill Norbit] WHALE HO! |
Rasputia: | Did somebody just call me a whale? |
Mr. Wong: | YEAH! AND A HO! [Throws one of the curtain rods at Rasputia and it lands in her butt, making her drop the spade] |
Rasputia: | [In pain] AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!! |
Mr. Wong: | Bingo! Right in the blowhole! |
Rasputia: | [Running away in fast-forward] AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! [Lloyd chases after her, barking] |
Abe the Tailor: | Let's get some! |
Big Jack: | We dead! [The mob then chases the brothers out of town for good] |
Big Jack: | [Serving chicken to Blue, Earl, and Rasputia] Leg. Breasts. Wing. |
President Camacho: | Shit. I know shit's bad right now, with all that starving bullshit, and the dust storms, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution. |
Congressman #1: | That's what you said last time, dipshit! |
Congressman #2: | Yeah, I got a solution, you're a dick! South Carolina, what's up! |
Boot Camp Instructor: | Hey! If you want to take this class you're going to have to pay for it, like the rest of these bitches! |
Hackman: | I've got no strings, so I have fun. I'm not tied up to anyone. They got strings, but you can see, there are no strings on me. |