Tergesen was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Valley Regional High School in nearby Deep River. He moved to New York to try to become an actor. He graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA)'s two-year program in Manhattan, where, from 1986 to 1989, he worked at the Empire Diner.
Monster
As Vincent Corey
Inferno
As Luke
Session Man
As Neal
A Thief Of Time
As Randall Elliot
Norman Pinski Come Home
As Dr. Vanderwal
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
As Daniel Royer
Acting Sheriff
As Robbie
Darkness Before Dawn
As Dino
Into The Dark
As 33963
Extreme Dating
As Hack
Helena from the Wedding
As Alex
Starwater
Wild Iris
As Lud van Eppy
Bark!
As Peter
No One Lives
As Hoag
Cabin Girl
As Sheriff Mason
Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel
As Himself
2nd Take
As Bobby
The Collection
As Lucello
Southern Comfort
As Blue
Invasion of the Mindbenders
As Crash Hopkins
Point Break
As Rosie
Cast a Deadly Spell
As Larry Willis / Lilly Sirwar
Wayne's World
As Terry
Wayne's World 2
As Terry
Diamonds
As Border Guard
Shaft
As Luger
The Boys of Sunset Ridge
As Ben Thorpe at 33
The Forgotten
As Al Petalis
The Exonerated
As Walter Rhodes
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
As Holden
Silver Tongues
As Gerry
Red Tails
As Colonel Jack Tomlinson
Desert Cathedral
As Peter Collins
The Parable of the Disappearing Recliner
As The Man
Tooken
As Bryan Millers
The Killing Mind
As Ron Donoho
Zo
As Tobias Beecher
Making Generation Kill
As Himself
Equity
As Randall
We All Scream for Ice Cream
As Layne
The Yellow Birds
As Jim Murphy
Pineapple
As Bruce
George B.
As Frank
Shot in the Heart
As Frank Gilmore, Jr.
Duckman
Third Watch
As Jared McKinley
Law & Order
As Clemens
Castle
As Marcus Gates
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
As Martin Hawkins
The Closer
As Detective Nick Carey
Desperate Housewives
As Peter McMillan
The 4400
As Oliver Knox
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show
Touched by an Angel
As Blake Chapman
The Unit
The Beat
As Steve Dorigan
Masters of Horror
Criminal Minds
As Dale Shrader
Rescue Me
As Sully
The New Adventures of Old Christine
As Todd Watski
Homicide: Life on the Street
As Officer Chris Thormann
Cane
Kings
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
As Josh Lemle
Cupid
The Handler
Wanted
Cracker
The Hoop Life
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
As Erik Garrison
Queens Supreme
Generation Kill
As Evan Wright
Marvel's Daredevil
As Paxton Page (voice)
Red Widow
As Mike Tomlin
Oz
As Tobias Beecher
Person of Interest
As Detective Petersen
Gone
As Mel Foster
The Americans
As Andrew Larrick
The Following
As Kurt Bolen
House
As Roy Randall
ER
As Demerol Junkie
Forever
As Hans Koehler
Elementary
As Cray Fielder
Weird Science
As Chett Donnelly
Law & Order: LA
As Patrick Denton
Blindspot
As Patrick O'Malley
American Horror Story
As Vince
The River
As Russ Landry
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
As Stanley Kowalski
The Purge
As Joe Owens
New Amsterdam
As Robert Wilkinson
Tracker
As Ashton Shaw
The Equalizer
As Deputy Barnes
Life on Mars
As Lee Crocker
East New York
As US Marshall David Westlake
Saturday Night Live
As Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Black Bird
As Roger Nevins
Watchmen
As Mister Shadow
JAG
As Gentry
Hack
As Carl Ginley
Chicago P.D.
As Richard Beck
Alpha House
As Colonel Eugene Drake
The Plot Against America
As Agent Don McCorkle
A Friend of the Family
As Mr. Horstmann
Reunited Apart
As Self
Longmire
As Ed Gorski
The Good Fight
As Mr. Pezner
The Strain
As Tardi
Bull
As ADA Lawrence Charles