| | Non-acting careers:
- Film director (Found in the Street, 2004)
- TV director (Episodic, Cruel and Unusual Punishments, Oz, HBO, 1999; Wheel of Fortune, Oz, HBO, 2002)
- Stage director (A Streetcar Named Desire, Steppenwolf Theatre, 1997; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Steppenwolf, then London, 2000, then Royale Theatre, 2001)
| Movies:
- The Game of Their Lives (2005) as Dent McSkimming
- Save the Last Dance (2001) as Roy Johnson
- The Firm (1993) as Lamar Quinn
| TV:
- Oz as Tim McManus
- The Unusuals as Sergeant Harvey Brown (10 episodes, 2009)
- Law & Order as Clifford Chester (1 episode, 2008)
- CSI: NY as Tom Mitford (2 episodes, 2004)
| Stage:
- A Clockwork Orange, Steppenwolf Theatre, 1994
- Loose Ends, Second Stage Theatre, New York City, 1988
- Also appeared in Tracers; Cloud 9; A Prayer for My Daughter; The House; Action; Savages; Death of a Salesman; Exit the King; Sandbar Flatland; and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
| Big break:
Kinney had a role in the 1988 film Miles from Home, which featured many cast members of Steppenwolf and was directed by Sinise | Best known for:
his portrayal of the idealistic unit manager Tim McManus on HBO's prison drama Oz | Awards:
1983, Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Play for And a Nightingale Sang at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois | Upcoming projects:
Joining The Mentalist |
| | | | KINNEY QUOTES | - It's a great thing when writers have the sensitivity to write well for a specific group of actors, which comes out of working together over an extended period of time. I think that's something we could do much more often, frankly.
- I directed pretty much as soon as I started acting. I didn't really get to acting until college. I did a little bit in high school. But I was interested in directing right away.
- Acting in front of a camera is really not an issue for me. It moves quickly. You don't get a lot of time to think. It's more character-based. Television is still about people.
- I was a Cubs fanatic like my dad and his dad before. I collected stuff from the '69 Cubs. I had a ball signed by all of them and my mom gave it to a cousin. I had a bat signed by Ernie [Banks] and Billy Williams - gone. Now, I have a few cards.
- When I was younger, I used to have those concerns like "I can't act well if I'm directing or prepping to direct. If I'm working on this movie, I should drop everything else." Really, that's overrated. I just work a lot. And I'm also a single dad. I really feel like I fill up every minute this way.
| | Read Terry Kinney Park City '08 Interview ► | | | KINNEY TRIVIA | - Was nominated for Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for playing Reverend Jim Casey in The Grapes of Wrath, a part he recreated in the television version of the same title, The Grapes of Wrath (1991) (TV)
- While at university, his friend, the aspiring actor Jeff Perry, took Kinney to Chicago to see a production of "Grease" in which his best friend, Gary Sinise, was appearing. The like-minded trio of Sinise, Perry and Kinney opened their own Chicago theatrical troupe, the Steppenwolf Theater, in 1973
- The founders of Steppenwolf supported the theater and themselves with odd jobs until he company began financially self-supporting in the early 1980s.
- In high school he was voted class president
- He drove a school bus while pursuing his acting career
- He lists his personal heroes as being, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, and firemen
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