Terence Rosemore
Terence Rosemore
Storyteller
Bio
Terence Rosemore was born in Great Falls, Montana and raised in New Orleans where he got his start as an Actor in Ted Gilliam's Dashiki Theatre Company. He is an award-winning Filmmaker, Actor, Musician, Visual Artist and Educator whose career has touched five decades. His numerous stage credits include August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Dashiki Theatre) and The Piano Lesson (Syracuse Stage). In 1992 He won the Black Theatre Festivals Best Actor Award for his performance in George C Wolfe’s The Colored Museum. In 1994 his original play A Dose of Reality won the Black Theater Festivals’ Best Play and Best Director awards.
Rosemore has appeared in dozens of feature films including Triple 9, The Nice Guys, Uncle Drew, Fist Fight, The Apostle, Candyman 2, Haunted Mansion and Guardians of the Galaxy Vols. 2 & 3. His Television work includes appearances on Atlanta, True Detectives, Winning Time: Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, American Horror Story, Scream Queens, Will Trent, Treme, Queen Sugar, Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special and Netflix's Outer Banks as Captain Terrance. DC/Warner Brothers has announced that Rosemore will be playing the role of Lex Luthor henchman Otis in James Gunn's Superman.
His behind the camera credits include Dr. Phil, The Fast and the Furious:Tokyo Drift, NFL Films, The Doctors, Pride, The Skeleton Key and Monster's Ball. From 1999 to 2001 Rosemore served as Cash Money Records Casting Director, casting the feature film Baller Blockin, as well as music videos for the Big Tymers, the Hot Boys, Lil Wayne and Juvenile. He has worked as a producer’s assistant (Pride), a director’s assistant (The Yellow Handkerchief) and as a cast assistant for actors John Hurt, Chazz Palminteri, Melanie Griffiths and Laurence Fishburne. He was Halle Berry’s assistant on the film Monster’s Ball for which she won the Academy award for Best Actress in 2002.
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Never one to sit idle, Rosemore was the founding drummer and manager for hip-hop band Soul Remedy. Their eponymous debut album released on Rosemore’s Funky Uncle Records was voted Best New R&B/Hip-Hop album in Offbeat magazines 1999 readers’ poll, and Best Unsigned Band in CitySearch.com’s 2000 audience poll. Rosemore has toured Europe and Asia as a drummer/percussionist for Donald Harrison’s Black Masking Indian tribe Guardians of the Flame.
He was a member of the East Side Live sketch comedy troupe along with Harry Ratchford (Kevin Hart), Joe Alverez, Raynon McKee and Rodney Perry (Mo’nique).In 1996 he founded the sketch comedy troupe the Out of Nowhere Players which opened for This Is Brown improv group starring Ken Jeong (Hangover).
Rosemore has written, directed and produced several Cable Ace award winning short films for Fox Television’s Short Story Theatre including Patrick Thompson, The Lottery, A Dose of Reality, Eclipse to Black and Curses amongst others. In 2006 his documentary My People, which documents the impact of Hurricane Katrina on his family, premiered at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD) in San Francisco as part of its I’ve known Rivers project. He also wrote and directed second unit footage for the feature film The Yellow Handkerchief starring Oscar winners William Hurt, and Eddie Redmayne, Oscar nominee Kristen Stewart and Maria Bello.
In 2006, Rosemore along with writing partner C.L. Taylor created Refugeefilms.tv one of the first digital streaming networks and is credited with creating one of the first web series Refugees. Rosemore directed and produced the feature film Different Worlds, a joint U.S. and Nigerian production in 2020. Content created by his company Out of Nowhere Productions has been featured on Fox Television, ABC, NBC/Universal's DotComedy.com, and Columbia/Sony's Crackle.com.
Also, a talented Visual Artist, his lively mixed medium collages are influenced by New Orleans rich African and Caribbean roots. He is the great-nephew of world renown master duck carver Jules Frederick. He was the first artist in residence at the Papillion Institute of Art in Los Angeles. His art has been featured on Tumblr.com, and several film and television shows. Halle Berry, Cicely Tyson, Don Cheadle, James Gunn and the U.S. Post Office are collectors of Rosemore’s work.
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