Terry Markwell (born Teresa Markwell, 1952) is an American actress.
Markwell is probably best recognized for having appeared as IMF agent Casey Randall in the 1988–1989 season of ''
Mission: Impossible'',
playing the only IMF agent in a ''
Mission: Impossible'' TV series and its revival to ever be caught, killed, and disavowed.
Work
Markwell got her first taste of acting while modeling for Plaza Three, a premiere talent agency in Phoenix during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Markwell guest starred in the TV-series ''
Return to Eden
''Return to Eden'' is an Australian television drama series starring Rebecca Gilling, James Reyne, Wendy Hughes and James Smillie. It began as a three-part, six-hour mini-series shown on Network Ten on September 27–29, 1983. Gilling and Smil ...
'' (1986).
Markwell portrayed IMF agent Casey Randall for the first 12 episodes in ''
Mission: Impossible'' (1988). Early in her last episode, "
The Fortune
''The Fortune'' is a 1975 American black comedy film starring Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty, and directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Adrien Joyce focuses on two bumbling con men who plot to steal the fortune of a wealthy young heir ...
", the character was captured and killed by lethal injection during a solo assignment.
One reviewer called the entire opening sequence of that episode excellent and by far the most powerful opening yet in the series. He also highlighted as poignant and well done the scene where Peter Graves's character finds out that Casey has died and reacts to the picture of her body on television as part of a news report on an unidentified body.
After ''Mission: Impossible'', Markwell made guest appearances in the TV-series ''
The Client
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* Client (business)
* Client (computing), hardware or software that accesses a remote service on another computer
* Customer or client, a recipient of goods or services in return for monetary or other valuable ...
'' (1995–1996), ''
Sliders
Slider or Sliders may refer to:
Arts
* K.K. Slider, a fictional character within the ''Animal Crossing'' franchise
* ''The Slider'', a 1972 album by T. Rex
* ''Sliders'' (TV series), an American science fiction and fantasy television series
* S ...
'' (1996–1997) and ''
The Burning Zone
''The Burning Zone'' is an American science fiction drama television series created by Coleman Luck that originally aired for one season on United Paramount Network (UPN) from September 3, 1996 to May 20, 1997. The series follows a gov ...
'' (1996–1997).
In film, Markwell appeared in ''Stones of Death'' (1988), ''
Murder 101'' (1991), ''Robo Warriors'' (1996) and ''Jane Street'' (1996) and had minor parts in ''
Grievous Bodily Harm
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'' (1988), ''Red Wind'' (1991) and ''
The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1994).
Markwell now primarily runs her own
interior design
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company under the name of "Markwell Design Group".
References
[Terry Markwell]
, imdb.com.
[Mission: Impossible]
, tvguide.com.
[The Fortune]
, metacritic.com.
[Nicholas Sweedo.]
, themacgyverproject.blogspot.com, 19 February 2017.
External links
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American television actresses
Actresses from Phoenix, Arizona
Living people
1952 births
21st-century American women
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