Terry Alan Crews (born July 30, 1968) is an American actor and former American football player. He is perhaps best known for playing Julius on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris and for his appearances in Old Spice commercials, as well as films such as Friday After Next, White Chicks, and The Expendables (series).

Crews starred as Nick Kingston-Persons in the TBS sitcom Are We There Yet? and as himself in the BET reality series The Family Crews. As of 2013, he plays NYPD Sergeant Terry Jeffords on the Fox sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine and also hosted the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire from 2014 until 2015.

Biography

Crews married Rebecca King, a former beauty queen and gospel recording artist, in 1990. They have three daughters, Azriel (b. 1990), Tera (b. 1999), and Wynfrey (b. 2004), and one son, Isaiah (b. 2007). He has one step-grandchild through a stepdaughter from his wife's previous relationship, Naomi (b. 1989). He is a Christian.

Crews is also a hobby painter and sketch artist.

In 2014 he released his autobiography, Manhood: How To Be A Better Man Or Just Live With One.

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