- He has no feeling in one of his index fingers. He lost it while banging his hands on the prisons bars in his first scene as Tobias Beecher on Oz (1997) .
- Is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York City.
- Is of Norwegian and Irish decent.
- He married Yuko Otomo in 2011 in Japan. Their daughter Lily was born on December 5, 2012.
- Recently played the role of a gay soldier on two unrelated TV shows - The Americans and Alpha House (2013).
- His brother Chris Tergesen was a Music Supervisor for example on Oz (1997) and Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and is married to "Homicide" star Toni Lewis.
- On Oz (1997), his character Beecher feuded with neo-Nazis in prison. In Shaft (2000), John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) calls Tergesen's character Lugar "a Nazi with a badge" for being somewhat racist towards black criminals.
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