August 12, 2005: We've now got
a new
"Wanted" page, with info on Lee's new show. Check it out.
Also... the Press page has been updated with a ton of new articles and
interviews, thanks to the premiere of "Wanted." I've been trying to
gather them all, but if anyone finds one I didn't catch, please email
me. Publicity photos and screen caps from the show have also been
added to the photo gallery. That will continue to be updated.
June 24, 2005: More news on "Wanted": A new TNT press kit
includes a Q & A with Lee regarding his upcoming role in the new drama
series.
Go here to read the full transcript. Thanks to Diane for
finding this!
June 21, 2005: OZ: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON now on DVD/Video!
May 24, 2005: Lee makes a guest
appearance on the first three episodes of the second season of the FX
channel drama, "Rescue Me." His episodes begin airing on June 21.
March 11, 2005: Photos from
Lee's March 10 guest appearance on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation have
been added to the gallery. Thanks to Cat for the caps!
February 5, 2005: OZ: THE
COMPLETE FOURTH SEASON now on DVD/Video!
"Four years into its sentence, the stark prison drama remains as gutsy
and compelling as ever. The season's 16 episodes come in a three-disc
set, accompanied by commentary on two episodes with series creator Tom
Fontana and co-stars Rita Moreno, Lee Tergesen and Dean Winters."
January 28, 2005: "The
Exonerated," a television special based on the original off-Broadway
play, aired on Court TV on January 27. The drama uses actual
testimony, interviews and letters to recount the experiences of six
wrongly convicted, eventually freed Death Row inmates. Lee, who
starred as Kerry Max Cook in the stage version of the play in 2003,
plays the role of Walter Rhodes in this TV adaptation. "The
Exonerated" is directed by Bob Balaban and was written by Jessica
Blank and Erik Jensen.
JANUARY 20, 2005:
THE FOREIGNER: Lee recently appeared in the off-Broadway play
"The Foreigner," at the Laura Pels Theatre in New York City. The show
opened November 7 and ran through January 2005.Click
here
for more information about the show.
The trailer for "Monster" is now available online.
Click here to check it out.
Monster will premiere in select theaters on December 26, and then in a wider release in the weeks following. For a full schedule, cast and story info, check out the film's official site.
Lee is currently shooting The Forgotten with Julianne Moore, Dominic West
and Gary Sinise. The film will be released by Columbia Pictures in 2004. Read more...
Lee has a role in the upcoming PBS movie, "A Thief of Time," based on Tony Hillerman's Navajo Police series. Click here for more info.
Photos from Bark! have been added to the gallery. The film is now available on DVD/video -- you can buy it here.
Photos from Lee's recent appearance at the Austin Film Festival were posted at filmfesttoday.com. Click here to view.
Screencaps from Lee's guest spot on the pilot of CBS's new series, "The Handler," have been added to the gallery. Click here to view.
Lee appeared in a reading of a new play, "Trick
or Treat" by Craig Harwood. Click
here for photos from the event.
In April, he appeared at the
Sonoma Valley Film Festival
along with mother-daughter directors Agnieszka Holland ("Shot in
the Heart') and Kasia Adamik ("Bark"). Two of Lee's films,
Bark and
Mergers & Acquisitions, were screened at the festival.
Mergers & Acquisitions was
also screened at the Ashland Film Festival in Ashland, Oregon,
from April 3 to April 7.
February 2003: Breaking
the Law
Lee and
several other members of the Oz cast hosted MTV2's "Breaking the
Law," a one-hour look at recording artists who've been in
trouble with the law.
The show debuted Saturday, February 8 on MTV2.
The Exonerated -- Lee starred as Kerry Max Cook in "The Exonerated," the powerful stage adaptation of "the true stories of six innocent survivors of Death Row."
The Day Jack London Got Pinched -- Tom Fontana's original adaptation of Jack London's "The Road", was presented at the American Globe Theatre in NYC, December 5-8. Lee appeared along with other Oz cast members Kirk Acevedo, MuMs, and Scott William Winters, as well as Fontana himself, in five performances to benefit the theatre. Tickets to the Friday and Saturday night shows also included drinks with the cast.
An article from David Guarino's "Profiles in Oz" series in the Windy City Times tells the world what Tergesen fans have known for years. Don't miss that one. Lee was also featured in the February 18 issue of The Advocate, and the winter issue of CRUNCH magazine (a transcription of that article can be found
here.) A mention of Oz's final days appeared (along with a pretty little photo) on
CNN.com on January 17. Check out the press page for other articles on the final season of Oz.
Lee and Tom Fontana offered several possibilities for Oz spinoffs in the January issue of Esquire... click
here to check 'em out. (Thanks to Lindsey for the scan!) Fontana has also posted a longer list, including many that didn't appear in the magazine, on his own
website.
On December 3, Lee and Tom Fontana did an interview on NPR's The Leonard Lopate
Show. The audio is available in the show's archives.
Lee was a guest on the WB-11 Morning News on December 2.
Members of the cast of "Oz" appeared at Kanvas in NYC on October 7, 2002, for the opening of a portrait photography exhibit by Jim Cox. The exhibit featured portraits of the Oz cast and crew. Several of Jim's wonderful portraits of Lee are now being displayed here on the site; you can find them
here. Also, check out some of the photos taken by fans who attended the opening. And be sure to visit
Jim Cox's site for more info on his portrait photography.
