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My Take
Terrence Howard is an actor I find impossible to ignore, even when I want to. That soft, almost whispered delivery can turn menacing or wounded within a single line, and it carried him from a minor debut in 1993 to an Academy Award nomination, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He sings, he voices animation, he theorizes eccentrically off screen — but on screen the instincts are undeniable. My take is that Howard belongs to that small club of performers whose presence is so specific that no casting director can substitute it. A complicated man, and a singular actor.
Overview
Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an American actor performing on film and television. He has received a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards. Howard made his film debut in a minor role in the buddy comedy Who's the Man? (1993). In 1995 he had a minor role in Mr. Holland's Opus.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Terrence Howard
- Name (Japanese)
- テレンス・ハワード
- Reading
- てれんす・はわーど
- Born
- March 11, 1969 (age 57)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Rooster
- Origin
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / singer / television actor / film actor / voice actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.