Terry Crews

Terry Crews is an actor, comedian, activist, artist, and former professional football player. Crews played Julius Rock on the UPN/CW sitcom "Everybody Hates Chris." He hosted the US version of the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and starred in the BET reality series "The Family Crews". He appeared in films such as "Friday After Next," "White Chicks," "Idiocracy," "Blended," and the "Expendables" series. For eight seasons, he played NYPD Lieutenant Terry Jeffords in the sitcom "Brooklyn Nine-Nine." He hosted "America's Got Talent" in 2019, following his involvement in the same role for the program's spin-off series "America's Got Talent: The Champions" from January 2019.

A former athlete, Crews was a defensive end and linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers, and Washington Redskins, as well as in the World League of American Football with Rhein Fire, and college football at Western Michigan University.

Crews, a public advocate for women's rights and activist against sexism, has shared stories of the abuse his family endured at the hands of his violent father. He was included among the group of people named as TIME magazine's Person of the Year in 2017 for going public with stories of sexual assault during the MeToo movement.