Terri Dwyer began her career as a model and in 1995 won the part of Ruth Osborne in the British soap opera Hollyoaks, making her first appearance in January 1996.
After leaving Hollyoaks in 2001, she participated in the Channel 4 reality tv show The Games and went on to win a gold medal.
In June 2006, Terri helped ITV Play launch a new show: Rovers Return Quiz Night.
In 2007, Terri co-presented Coronation Street/Emmerdale Confidential on ITV along with Jeremy Edwards (who played the husband of Dwyer's character in Hollyoaks).
Dwyer gave birth to her first child, a son named Caiden Ajay Marley in Birkenhead, Merseyside,[3] on 1 March 2006.