Terry Crews

Terry Crews married Rebecca, a Christian recording artist and former beauty queen, on July 29, 1990; the couple has five children: daughters Azriel, Tera, Wynfrey and Naomi Burton, and son Isaiah.

Crews released his autobiography, ‘Manhood: How to Be a Better Man or Just Live with One’ in 2014. In it, he made startling disclosures about his addiction to pornography that had seriously affected his life and marriage and how he was able to overcome it after entering rehab in 2009 and 2010

On October 10, 2017, Crews disclosed how he had been sexually assaulted in February 2016 by a top Hollywood executive but had not made it public for fear of retaliation. In November 2017, he filed a case against Adam Venit, the head of the talent company William Morris Endeavor’s motion picture department but was unsuccessful due to the statute of limitations coming into effect.

Terry Alan Crews was born on July 30, 1968, to Patricia and Terry Crews, Sr. in Flint, Michigan. He was brought up in a strict Christian family, largely by his mother as his father was alcoholic.

He attended the Flint Southwestern school, from where he obtained his high school diploma. A good student, he went on to attend the prestigious Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan and received an art scholarship from the ‘Chrysler Corporation’.

Earning an ‘Art Excellence’ scholarship and as well as a full athletic scholarship for football, he attended the Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo, Michigan to major in art.

He was selected as a defensive end for the ‘WMU Broncos’ and earned an all-conference honors helping his team to win the ‘Mid-American Conference Championship’ in 1988.

While playing for the Western Michigan University, Terry Crews football skills got noticed, and he was asked by the ‘Los Angeles Rams’ to join their team in the 11th round of the ‘NFL’ draft in 1991.

Terry Crews played for two seasons with the ‘Rams’ before he joined the ‘San Diego Chargers’ as a journeyman in 1993 and also played for them the following year.

In 1995, he was with the ‘Washington Redskins’ and switched to ‘Philadelphia Eagles’, the next year. He also played for the German team, ‘Rhein Fire’ in the ‘World League of American Football’.

During the period 1991 to 1995, he played a total of 32 games. While he was reasonably good at American football, he realized that his football career was not going anywhere special so he quit professional football in 1997. Having studied art for a number of years, he used both his talent and the knowledge of the game to create a series of NFL-licensed lithographs at the behest of a reputed company dealing in sports memorabilia.

In 1996, he co-wrote and co-produced ‘Young boys Incorporated’, an independent film with an anti-drug message that was shot in Detroit. While the film drew on his own, as well as that of his family’s and friends’ observations and experiences, Crews admitted later that it was a “horrible” film. However, the experience of producing the film only served to whet his appetite.

While earlier Crews always wanted to be involved in some way in the film industry, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. In 1999, he obtained his first acting role after he successfully auditioned for the part of an athlete in ‘Battle Dome’, a syndicated game show.

The process of auditioning and winning the role after competing with other actor-athletes and his experience of performing in front of an audience playing the character of urban warrior ‘T-Money’ was addictive and Crews realized that he wanted to only act for the rest of his life.

Terry Crews got his first film role in 2000 when he landed a part in ‘The Sixth Day’, an American science fiction action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; the film flopped at the box office.

After his first role, Crews went jobless for the next couple of years but thereafter, got a steady stream of roles in films, music videos, and television commercials.