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.
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.