Wellington grew up in both the Western U.S. states, principally in Utah and Colorado, and in the Chicago-midwest area in a middle-class family.

In Los Angeles, she studied Classical acting, the Meisner technique, and spent time at The Second City improvisation center.

Wellington has appeared on the CBS police procedural Criminal Minds[4] and been a series regular in the New York Television Festival's special selection pilot Rx which was a family drama about medical marijuana.

[5] She played a supporting role in The Last Days of Toussaint L'Ouverture,[6] an award-winning provocative film that was dedicated to the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

During that time, Terra conducted one of the last media interviews of Actress Wendie Jo Sperber who was known for playing Linda McFly in Back to the Future.