American actress Terri Colombino was born Theresa Celeste Conn on January 28, 1975 in Bloomington, Indiana. The only child of a retired air force officer and a real estate agent, she started acting in 1994, when she starred in the action flick Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor. She went on to appear in several other films, as well as guest roles on numerous television shows such as The Young and the Restless, Profiler, Brotherly Love and 7th Heaven.
In 1998, Colombino signed up for a role in the daytime soap As the World Turns. She originated the role of Katie Peretti, the half-sister of Margo Hughes (Ellen Dolan) and Craig Montgomery (Jeffrey Meek). Her character is currently married to Brad Snyder (Austin Peck), although her previous pairing with Simon Frasier (Paul Leyden) was considered a supercouple. This role earned her a nomination for a Daytime Emmy in 2001.
Colombino married actor and musician Arthur Colombino in 2001. The birth of her daughter, Julie Catherine, was a subject of the TLC series A Baby Story.