Terri Vaughn, an actress by profession, came to life on October 16th 1969 and has a sun sign Libra. She is a Native American and she was born in San Francisco, California, U.S. Terri was born to her parents and grew up in California only. However she had an interest in acting since very young age and started participating in various acting shows while she was studying. Terri has had relationships in the past. She got married to her first husband named ‘Derrick Carolina’ and had a son with him. However their relation could not sustain for long and they both filed for a divorce. Terri later on married her present husband ‘Karon Riley’ who was a football player by profession. Terri is staying with Karon now and they both have two children, one son and a daughter. Terri gave birth to her first daughter in the year 2014 and threw a grand Baby shower party to celebrate the birth of her child. Her party was attended by many celebrities. Terri has also been involved in social work and she is working for an organization called ‘Take Wings Foundation’ which was established by her. The organization is focused towards providing financial, moral and educational support to women who are not able to do big in life. Terri also founded a lounge and a book store named ‘Green Room’ in Atlanta and the lounge was specifically dedicated to arts. The venture was much appreciated and it became very popular in Atlanta and adjacent areas.


According to her biography, Terri started her career doing short cameo and small roles in many movies. She acted in the movies like ‘Friday’, ‘Black Scorpion’, ‘Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood’, ‘Carnosaur 3: Primal Species’ and others till 1997. However the roles in the movies were very short and not much acknowledged by the audiences on screen. She also appeared in some TV shows till 1997. However in 1997 her first major break came when acted in the TV series ‘The Steve Harvey Show’. The show was a phenomenal success and was much appreciated by the audiences. The role of Terri also garnered much attention of the audiences. The show went on to win many awards and Terri also got the awards for supporting Actress in the show by NAACP. Because of her role in the show Terri later on got many offers and acted in multiple movies. However she did some very popular roles on TV later on like the role of ‘Jonelle Abrahams’ in ‘All of Us’ and the role of ‘Renee’ in the TV show ‘Meet the Browns’. Terri has quite a few new movies coming up in 2016 and a TV show as well which is set to be released later this year.

Terri has been socially very active and her Instagram profile has got over 2.6 lacs followers. She keeps on posting hers and her family pictures on social media. Terri has got a total net worth of around $2 million and her net worth is projected to increase in future because of her upcoming movies and TV shows.

Last Modified: Mar 13, 2020


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