Terry Carter

TV Actor

Birthday December 16, 1928

Birth Sign Sagittarius

Birthplace Brooklyn, NY

Age 95 years old

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About

TV and movie actor who is best known for his roles in the 1978 film Battlestar Galactica, Foxy Brown and McCloud. He was also the world's first black TV anchor newscaster in 1965 on WBZ-TV Eyewitness News.

Before Fame

He attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City. He studied at Hunter College, Boston UniversityUCLA and St. John's University School of Law. In 1983, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in communications from Northeastern University.

Trivia

He was founder and president of Meta/4 Productions, Inc. He is the President of Council For Positive Images, a non-profit organization he formed in 1979.

Family Life

His birth name is John Everett DeCoste. He is the son of Mercedes DeCoste and William DeCoste. In 2009, he married Etaferhu Zenebe. From 1991 to 2006, he was married to Beate Glatved, and from 1964 to 1990 to Anna DeCoste. 

Associated With

He starred alongside Dirk Benedict and Lorne Greene in Battlestar Galactica.