A native of Ohio, Terry Ray, at the age of 18 co-starred with Patricia Heaton as a singing Chinese cook masquerading as a Native American. After graduating in Theatre Arts from the University of Cinci ...Show More
A native of Ohio, Terry Ray, at the age of 18 co-starred with Patricia Heaton as a singing Chinese cook masquerading as a Native American. After graduating in Theatre Arts from the University of Cincinnati & Conservatory, Terry was an acting intern at Playhouse on the Square and performed in several regional theaters before settling in Los Angeles. In over 80 plays he as appeared with stars such as Dixie Carter, Elaine Stritch and Matthew Perry.A four day stint in 1987 on the game show Scrabble led to an unleashed Ray outing himself on national television. He received bags of fan mail. AfterElton has listed his appearance as number 3 on their top 10 list of Greatest Gay Moments in the History of Game Shows, right after Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly (who was Terry's cherished acting teacher), and movieline.com named Terry Ray as one of the 5 Weirdest Contestants in the history of game shows. (He was only one listed as weird in a good way).Terry's first professional writing job was the stage performance "Hollywood Goes Classical" at the venerable Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (DCP) starring Mickey Rooney, Michael York, Dean Jones, Rhonda Fleming and several other classic film stars. He wrote and starred in two more shows at the DCP--one co-starring Amanda Bynes and the other Hilary Duff. Terry co-wrote and starred in the short film Gaydar which appeared in over 120 film festivals around the world and won numerous awards, and was selected by the California Independent Film Festival as one of the top 10 short comedy films of the 2000-2009 decade. The film also inspired the popular Gaydar Gun toy, which Terry voices. For his next short film, Cost Of Living (a comedy about life after global warming), he won the Boston International Film Festival's Best Male Actor award.Terry Ray is the creator, writer and star of gay cable channel HERE! TV's first sitcom From Here On OUt. The show also stars Juliet Mills, T.J. Hoban, Suzanne Whang, Adrian Gonzalez and Julie Brown. Season one has also recently been released as a film. Ray co-created/produced and wrote the new game show Modd Couples that airs on Hulu. He's also the cowriter of the TV movie The Joneses: Unplugged starring Mischa Barton, David Ogden Stiers and Markie Post.Season one of Terry's new digital series, My Sister Is So Gay has recently been released. Ray co-wrote the comedy and stars along side Loni Anderson (as his mother) Debra Wilson and Tilky Jones. He also wrote and co-stars with Dawn Wells (Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island) in a spoof of Dawn's classic sitcom called She's Still on That Freakin' Island. The first episode can be seen on MeTV and more are in the works.Terry Ray's new play Electricity premiered in 2016 to rave reviews and a held over run at the Two Roads Theater. Ray and actor Kevin Scott Allen starred in the comedy-drama's world debut. Hide
