Terra Wellington
Wellington at the 2009 New York Television Festival
Occupation(s)	Actress, Media Personality, Author, Television Host, Environmental Advocate
Years active	2004–present
Website	TerraWellington.com Terra Wellington IMDb

Terra Wellington is an American actress, writer, and producer. She is also an environmental and wellness advocate, published author, and has been a U.S. columnist and magazine editor.

Wellington grew up in both the Western U.S. states, principally in Utah and Colorado, and in the Chicago-midwest area in a middle-class family.^[1][2] Her mother worked as a freelance artist and author, though principally raised her children as a full-time homemaker.^[1] And her father worked in sales, acted in community theater, and was a celebrated organist and pianist.^[1][2] She learned to play the piano at the age of 5.^[3]

Excelling in prose interpretation on the school's speech team, she attended Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, a northern Chicago suburb.^[3]

Terra’s actor talents have been cultivated through extensive performing and training in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, she studied Classical acting, the Meisner technique, and spent time at The Second City improvisation center.

Wellington has appeared on the CBS police procedural Criminal Minds^[4] and been a series regular in the New York Television Festival's special selection pilot Rx which was a family drama about medical marijuana.^[5] She played a supporting role in The Last Days of Toussaint L'Ouverture,^[6] an award-winning provocative film that was dedicated to the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.^[7] And in 2016 she played the role of Elly's Aunt in "Mississippi Requiem," a black-and-white feature film starring Amy Smart and Topher Grace; the film combined four William Faulkner adapted stories.^[8] She also has played the lead in numerous additional independent films.^[9]

Wellington is also a feature and television producer and writer, having won and been nominated for awards. She also is a published author.

In 2003, Wellington began appearing on "Good Morning Arizona" on Phoenix, Arizona's KTVK, as well as on KNXV-TV's "Sonoran Living," as a media personality talking about wellness lifestyle topics.^[16] This expanded to include dozens of shows across the U.S., including CBS News This Morning, Martha Stewart Living Radio, and the syndicated talk and news program The Daily Buzz.^[17]

She was the Wellness Editor for two national women's magazines in 2004–5, REAL^[18] and Fit Body. During that time, Terra conducted one of the last media interviews of Actress Wendie Jo Sperber who was known for playing Linda McFly in Back to the Future.^[3] Wendie Jo died of cancer in November 2005.^[19]

Wellington has been a strong supporter of ocean conservation, the environment, and healthy living campaigns.

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