Teri Ann Garr was born on December 11,1944 and is an American former actress, dancer, and comedian.
34 Facts About Teri Garr
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Teri Garr frequently appeared in comedic roles throughout her career, which spans four decades and includes over 140 credits in film and television.
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Teri Garr's accolades include an Academy Award nomination, a BAFTA Award nomination, and a National Board of Review Award.
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Teri Garr is the third child of a comedic-actor father and a studio costumer mother.
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Teri Garr began her career as a teenager with small roles in television and film in the early 1960s, including appearances as a dancer in six Elvis Presley musicals.
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Teri Garr gained prominence for her roles in Francis Ford Coppola's thriller The Conversation, Mel Brooks' comedy Young Frankenstein, and Steven Spielberg's science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Teri Garr earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Sydney Pollack comedy Tootsie.
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Teri Garr reunited with Coppola in a role in his musical One from the Heart, starred opposite Michael Keaton in the family film Mr Mom, and acted in Martin Scorsese's black comedy After Hours.
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Teri Garr appeared on television as Phoebe Abbott in three episodes of the sitcom Friends.
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In 2002, Teri Garr announced that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the symptoms of which had affected her ability to perform beginning in the 1990s.
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Teri Ann Garr was born December 11,1944, in Lakewood, Ohio, a suburb west of Cleveland.
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Teri Garr's father was of Irish descent and her maternal grandparents were Austrian immigrants.
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Teri Garr spent her early life in Cleveland, and the family briefly relocated to New Jersey before settling in Los Angeles, California.
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When Teri Garr was eleven, her father died in Los Angeles of a heart attack.
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In 1966, Teri Garr made one appearance on Batman.
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Teri Garr's first speaking role in a motion picture was a brief appearance as a damsel in distress in The Monkees' film Head, written by Jack Nicholson; Garr got the role after meeting Nicholson in an acting class.
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Teri Garr appeared in a string of highly successful films in the mid-to-late 1970s, including a supporting role in Francis Ford Coppola's thriller The Conversation.
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In 1978, Teri Garr appeared off-Broadway in a production of One Crack Out by Canadian playwright David French, playing the wife of Charlie, a pool hustler in Toronto.
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Teri Garr then appeared in the comedy Mr Mom as the wife of Michael Keaton's character, followed by a supporting role in Martin Scorsese's After Hours.
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In 1992, Teri Garr played Marge Nelson in Mom and Dad Save the World, a sci-fi adventure family romantic comedy film.
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Teri Garr hosted Saturday Night Live three times, and was a frequent visitor on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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Teri Garr's career began to slow in the late 1990s after a neurologist informed her that symptoms she had been experiencing for many years were those of multiple sclerosis.
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Teri Garr provided the voice of Mary McGinnis in two Batman animated films: Batman Beyond: The Movie, and Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.
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Teri Garr returned to the stage in 2000, appearing in numerous off-Broadway performances of The Vagina Monologues that fall opposite Sanaa Lathan and Julianna Margulies.
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Teri Garr subsequently had minor supporting roles in the Christmas comedy film Unaccompanied Minors, and the independent comedies Expired and Kabluey.
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In 2006, Teri Garr published an autobiography, Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood, which details her career and health struggles after her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
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Teri Garr appeared on The Moth Radio Hour broadcast of December 9,2009, to tell a humorous reminiscence, "Wake Up Call".
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Teri Garr appeared at the 19th Annual Race to Erase MS event in 2012.
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In 1993, Teri Garr married building contractor John O'Neil, and that same year, in November, they were present when their adopted daughter Molly O'Neil was born.
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In October 2002, Teri Garr confirmed that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
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In interviews, Teri Garr has said that she first started noticing symptoms while she was in New York filming Tootsie around 1982.
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In November 2005, Teri Garr was honored as the society's Ambassador of the Year.
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In March 1988, Teri Garr was arrested for trespassing in Mercury, Nevada, during a protest against nuclear weapons testing in the area.
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Teri Garr has participated in events for The Trevor Project, a nonprofit gay youth suicide prevention organization.