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Terry Ann "Teri" Garr (born December 11, 1944) is an American film and television actress.
Early life
Garr was born in Lakewood, Ohio in 1944. Her father, Eddie Garr (born Edward L. Gonnoud),was a vaudeville performer, comedian and actor whose career peaked when he briefly took over the lead role in the Broadway drama Tobacco Road. Her mother, Phyllis Lind (née Emma Schmotzer), was a dancer, a Rockette, wardrobe mistress, and model.
Education
Garr graduated from North Hollywood High School in 1962. She briefly attended California State University, Northridge, then known as "San Fernando Valley State College".
Career
Early in her career, she was credited, variously, as Terri Garr, Terry Garr, Teri Hope, or Terry Carr. Garr's movie debut was as an extra in 1963's A Swingin' Affair. She started out as a background dancer in uncredited roles for youth-oriented films like Pajama Party, a beach party film, The T.A.M.I. Show, and nine Elvis Presley features. Her first speaking role in a motion picture was a one-line appearance as a damsel in distress in the 1968 Monkees film Head written by Jack Nicholson.
In 1974, she got her first significant motion-picture role in Francis Ford Coppola's critically acclaimed film The Conversation. Her career breakthrough came in Mel Brooks comedy Young Frankenstein (1974). She went on to appear in a string of highly successful films, often playing a housewife. Her most popular films include Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Oh, God! (1977), The Black Stallion (1979),One From The Heart (1982), Mr. Mom (1983) and After Hours (1985). In 1982, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her supporting role as Dustin Hoffman's actress friend in Tootsie.
Since the late 1960s, she has also appeared frequently on television. She, along with friend Toni Basil, began as go-go dancers on several musical variety shows such as Shindig! and Hullabaloo. In 1967, Garr made two appearances on Batman and one appearance on The Andy Griffith Show. In 1968, she was in two episodes of It Takes a Thief and appeared as Roberta Lincoln, secretary for Gary Seven in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Assignment: Earth", which was intended to be a backdoor pilot episode for a spinoff TV series of the same name in which she would co-star opposite Robert Lansing, who played Seven, though the proposed new series did not sell.
In the early 1970s, she was a regular cast member on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour dancing and acting in comedy sketches. She also had a recurring role as a ditzy policewoman on McCloud, and appeared on M*A*S*H, The Bob Newhart Show, and Barnaby Jones. She hosted Saturday Night Live in 1980, 1983, and 1985 and was a frequent visitor on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.[citation needed] As a recurring guest on Late Night with David Letterman, she was renowned for her unscripted banter with personal friend David Letterman, who once goaded her into showering in his office while the camera rolled. She landed a role as recurring character Phoebe Abbott in Friends, playing the estranged birth mother of Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow).
Personal life
In October 2002, Garr publicly confirmed that she was battling multiple sclerosis. After years of uncertainty and secrecy surrounding her diagnosis, Garr explained her reasons for deciding to go public: "I'm telling my story for the first time, so I can help people. I can help people know they aren't alone, and tell them there are reasons to be optimistic because today treatment options are available". In recent interviews, she has commented that she first started noticing symptoms while in New York filming Tootsie. For the next few years, as acting jobs brought her to various locations around the world, she continued to see different doctors in different cities, until she finally found a doctor who correctly diagnosed her as having MS.
Since Garr announced that she has MS, she has become a leading advocate in raising awareness for the condition and the latest treatments for it. She is a National Ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and National Chair for the Society's Women Against MS program (WAMS). In November 2005, Garr was honored as the society’s Ambassador of the Year. This honor had been given only four times since the society was founded.
On December 21, 2006, she suffered a brain aneurysm in her home. Her 13-year-old adopted daughter called 911 when she could not wake her mother up. After therapy to regain her motor skills and speech, she appeared on Late Show with David Letterman on June 19, 2008, without the need of a wheelchair. She was on the show to promote Expired, a 2007 film in which she played a set of twins.
Academy awards nomination
- Academy Award
- 1983: Nominated for "Best Supporting Actress" in Tootsie
Filmography
Features
Short subjects
- Where Is the Bus? (1966)
- The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977)
- Java Junkie (1979), shown on Saturday Night Live
- Save the Rabbits (1994)
- God Out the Window (2007)
Television
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