"Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good." - Terrence Mann Terrence Vaughan Mann is an American actor and baritone singer, who, for Disney, was the first to play Beast on Broadway for the musical adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He also appeared in a filmed production of the show entitled Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical Comes to L.A. Additionally, he provided the voice of Oberon in Gargoyles and played King Triton in a regional production of The Little Mermaid.
Mann was born in Ashland, Kentucky and became interested in theater through his father's interest in music. Moving to Largo, Florida where he graduated form Largo High School. and later attended the North Carolina School of the Arts. He was a regular at Morrison's North Carolina Shakespeare Festival and performed in the annual outdoor theater spectacular "The Lost Colony", during summers on the Outer banks of Manteo, North Carolina.
Mann made his Broadway debut in 1980 in Barnum in the supporting role of Chester Lyman, but his true break-through performance as Rum Tum Tugger in the original Broadway cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats in 1982. He has since become a notable stage actor who performance productions of Les Misérables, Rags, Camelot, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Assassins, 1776, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Getting Away with Murder, The Rocky Horror Show, Lennon, The Addams Family, My Fair Lady, Man of La Mancha, Pippin, Peter Pan, Finding Neverland, Tuck Everlasting, Jerry Springer - The Opera, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Romeo and Juliet.
In films, Mann appeared in A Chorus Line, Big Top Pee-wee, Solarbabies, Freedom, and the Critters movies as the bounty hunter Ug. On television, he appeared in All My Children, The Tick, Law & Order, The Edge of Night, As The World Turns, The Equalizer, Another World, Loving, One Life to Live, Guiding Light, 30 Rock, Smash, Sense8, Sleepy Hollow, The Blacklist, and Foundation.
Outside of performances, Mann teaches musical theatre at Western Carolina University and is an artistic director of the Carolina Arts Festival and the North Carolina Theatre.
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