Andy Tennant

Life and career

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Tennant was raised in Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father was Don Tennant, a legendary creative advertising talent with Leo Burnett Agency in Chicago. As a boy, he spent his summers on Old Mission Peninsula in northern Michigan and at Camp Minocqua in northern Wisconsin. He graduated from Homewood-Flossmoor High School in 1973. He studied theater under John Houseman at University of Southern California.

Tennant's first acting role in a motion picture was in 1980 as a college student, Melio, on an all-night scavenger hunt in a surreal film, Midnight Madness which cameo'd cowboy-hatted Pee Wee Herman as a pin ball arcade manager; Andy's first big break in films came when he was cast as a dancer and chorus member in the movies Grease and Grease 2.

Tennant is married. He and his wife have four children, three of whom are triplets.

Filmography

• It Takes Two (also known as Me and My Shadow) (1995)
• Fools Rush In (1997)
• Ever After (1998)
• Anna and the King (1999)
• Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
• Hitch (2005)
• Fool's Gold (2008)
• The Bounty Hunter (2010)
• Wild Oats (2016)

Television

• Ferris Bueller (Unknown episodes, 1990)
• The Wonder Years (2 episodes, 1989–1991)
• Parker Lewis Can't Lose (5 episodes, 1990–1991)
• Keep the Change (1992)
• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures (Unknown episodes, 1992)
• Desperate Choices: To Save My Child (1992)
• The Amy Fisher Story (1993)
• The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (2 episodes, 1993)
• South of Sunset (Unknown episodes, 1993)
• Sliders (1 episode, 1995)
• The American Embassy (1 episode, 2002)

Writing credits

• Moving Target (Teleplay, 1988)
• Ferris Bueller (Unknown episodes, 1990)
• What She Doesn't Know (Teleplay, 1992)
• Ever After (Screenplay, 1998)
• The Wedding Album (Pilot, 2006)
• Fool's Gold (Screenplay, 2008)