Terri Abney

Career overview

Terri Abney is an actor whose professional career includes work in both film and stage. A native of Washington, D.C., she studied acting at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Clark Atlanta University, and her early professional roots began in East Coast theater. Her feature film debut came when she starred in Ryan Richmond's feature Money Matters, in which she played the title role of Monique Money M.

Following her debut, Abney appeared in several notable films. She was cast as Mildred's sister, played by Ruth Negga, in the film Loving. She can also be seen on-screen in John Hillcoat's Triple 9 and Peter Billingsley's Term Life. More recently, Abney starred alongside Gary Carr and Ian McShane in Dan Pritzker's film Bolden, a movie set in 1906 and based on the jazz musician Buddy Bolden, which premiered in theaters in May of that year.