Terry Serpico
American actor
Terry Serpico is an American film and television actor.
Personal life
Serpico was born in Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma, the youngest of three children. He became interested in acting after graduating from high school. He attended Boston University before transferring to and graduating from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1989. He is of German and Italian descent.
Serpico married Kadia Saraf on June 8, 2022, in Beacon, New York. They met on set of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Career
Serpico began his career as a stunt performer. In 1997, he was cast in his first major acting role in Donnie Brasco. In television, Serpico has guest-starred on such shows as Law & Order, CSI: Miami, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Person of Interest.
“Terry Serpico” enters the record as american actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Terry, Serpico and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Terry Serpico” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Terry, Serpico and American provides the most credible route into that argument.
The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1990966. VIAF identifies the subject as 100755009. The Library of Congress control number is no2009140210. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 2022 and 1997.
A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.
- Establishing names and roles
- Building a first chronology
- Locating cited institutions
Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Terry Serpico”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Terry Serpico primary sources, Terry Serpico archive and Terry research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Terry Serpico”?
- How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
- Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Terry Serpico” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.