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