1. Theresa Elizabeth Polo was born on June 1,1969 and is an American actress.
20 Facts About Teri Polo
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Teri Polo starred as Pamela Martha Focker in the Meet the Parents trilogy, Helen Santos in The West Wing, and played the role of police officer Stef Adams Foster in the Freeform series The Fosters and its spinoff Good Trouble.
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Teri Polo was born on June 1,1969, in Dover, Delaware to Jane, a homemaker, and Vincent Teri Polo, a stereo systems designer.
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Teri Polo studied ballet for 13 years beginning at age six.
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Teri Polo's acting debut, in 1987, was in the role of Kristin Larsen on the ABC daytime soap opera Loving.
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Teri Polo starred in the 1990 miniseries The Phantom of the Opera as Christine Daae.
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In 1994, Teri Polo became a regular cast member on the last season of Northern Exposure.
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Teri Polo later played Detective Ash on the TV series Brimstone.
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Teri Polo appeared in a recurring guest role in the sixth and seventh seasons of The West Wing playing the role of Helen Santos, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Matt Santos.
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In 2000, Teri Polo became well known for her role as Pam Byrnes in the comedy Meet the Parents, opposite Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro.
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Teri Polo was ranked No 42 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002.
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Teri Polo starred in the Lifetime Movie Network 2006 movie, Legacy of Fear.
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Teri Polo appeared in the 2009 television pilot for Washington Field, a show about the National Capitol Response Squad, a unit of the FBI composed of elite experts in different areas who travel around the world responding to events that concern American interests.
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In 2010, Teri Polo reprised her role as Pam Focker in Little Fockers, the second sequel to Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers.
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Teri Polo appeared in the 1980s-styled horror fantasy film, The Hole.
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In 2013, Teri Polo was cast in a lead role in the ABC Family series The Fosters.
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Teri Polo played San Diego police officer Stef Adams Foster, opposite Sherri Saum, playing her wife Lena Adams Foster.
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In 2014, Teri Polo starred in The Christmas Shepherd as the character Sally, an author living in a small town in Massachusetts who is devastated when her German Shepherd runs away during a storm.
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In 2016, Teri Polo narrated Daniel Errico's modern fairy tale short film "Rosaline".
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In 2006, while on the set of a video, Teri Polo met drummer Jamie Wollam.