32 Facts About Teri Hatcher

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Teri Hatcher's father is of English, Welsh, Irish and Choctaw descent, while her mother is of Syrian, Czech and Irish ancestry.

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Teri Hatcher took ballet lessons at the San Juan School of Dance in Los Altos and grew up in Sunnyvale, California.

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Teri Hatcher said her parents were unaware of the abuse.

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Teri Hatcher said she told the prosecutors about her own abuse because she was haunted by thoughts of the 14-year-old girl who shot herself, and feared Stone might escape conviction.

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Teri Hatcher then played Sylvester Stallone's younger sister, a dancer, in the big-budget police action-comedy Tango and Cash, starring Kurt Russell; it was a critical and box office disappointment.

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Teri Hatcher co-starred as 30-year-old lawyer in a mostly physical relationship with a widowed businessman twice her age, played by Robert Loggia.

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Teri Hatcher acted in the television crime movie Dead in the Water in which she plays Bryan Brown's lawyer's young, attractive temptress secretary, and in the low-budget erotic thriller The Cool Surface, wherein she plays a young actress who has an ill-fated romance with an enigmatic, unsettled screenwriter.

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In late 1991 Teri Hatcher was featured as Michael Bolton's love interest in the music video for Bolton's hit song "Missing You Now".

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In 1992, Teri Hatcher tried out for the role of Jamie Buchman on Mad About You and made it to the final two choices, but lost the part to Helen Hunt.

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Teri Hatcher made a much-discussed guest appearance on a 1993 episode of Seinfeld, in which her character, Sidra, breaks up with Jerry because she believes Jerry sent his friend Elaine into a sauna to find out if Sidra's breasts are natural or enhanced by surgery.

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Teri Hatcher returned to play Sidra in brief scenes in two subsequent episodes: "The Pilot", the fourth season finale, and "The Finale ", the series finale.

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At the height of the show's popularity in 1995, a picture of Teri Hatcher wrapped in a Superman cape was reportedly the most downloaded image on the Internet for several months.

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Teri Hatcher won the role of Paris Carver in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.

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Teri Hatcher was three months pregnant at the filming's start, by her husband, Jon Tenney.

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Teri Hatcher appeared in films such as Spy Kids, and played a villain in two crime dramas, the ensemble 2 Days in the Valley, a moderate box office success, and Heaven's Prisoners, co-starring Alec Baldwin, which failed at the box office.

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Teri Hatcher appeared in a series of RadioShack television commercials alongside National Football League player Howie Long.

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Teri Hatcher beat four other actresses for one of the lead roles on ABC's Desperate Housewives, in which she starred as Susan Mayer, a role for which she won the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award in January 2005.

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Later that year, Teri Hatcher won the Screen Actors Guild award in the same category.

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Teri Hatcher made similar lists in the German and Portuguese versions of FHM those years.

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Teri Hatcher voiced the Other Mother, a mysterious, button-eyed figure, as well as Coraline's mother Mel Jones, who constantly shows Coraline "tough love," both in the 2009 film Coraline, which received critical acclaim.

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In 2010, Teri Hatcher made a return to the Superman franchise, with a special guest role in the final season of Smallville as Ella Lane, the mother of Erica Durance's Lois Lane.

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Teri Hatcher later addressed the rumors of her departure from Desperate Housewives, saying that "[t]here are not enough adjectives to describe how stupid, off base, and ridiculously untrue this is".

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Eva Longoria, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, and Vanessa Williams gave thank-you gifts to the crew from the show which included a message with their names inscribed at the end, and Teri Hatcher's name was distinctly absent.

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In 2016, Teri Hatcher had a recurring role as Charlotte, a successful single mother who becomes Oscar's love interest in the second season of the comedy series The Odd Couple.

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In 2017, Teri Hatcher appeared as Queen Rhea of Daxam in a recurring role on The CW series Supergirl.

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In 2018, Teri Hatcher debuted a YouTube channel called Hatching Change.

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Since Desperate Housewives went off the air, Teri Hatcher, who was already an active baker, has gotten very interested and involved in cooking including taking lessons at various times.

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Teri Hatcher became a champion in season 17 of Chopped on the Food Network by winning the Holiday Celebrity episode.

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Teri Hatcher participated in The Great British Bake Off in the fifth episode of the Stand Up to Cancer series of 2018, which she won.

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Teri Hatcher married Marcus Leithold, of Butler, Pennsylvania, on June 4,1988; they divorced the following year.

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In 2007, Teri Hatcher began writing a column for Glamour magazine.

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Teri Hatcher endorsed Democratic primary candidate Andrew Yang in the 2020 presidential election.