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Teri Garr (born December 11, 1949 in Lakewood, Ohio) is an American actress and comedian. Garr's father was Eddie Garr, a comedian and actor whose career peaked when he briefly took over the lead role in the Broadway drama Tobacco Road.

One of her most acclaimed roles was in Tootsie, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress in 1982. Her movie debut was as an extra in the 1963 film A Swingin' Affair. During her early career she appeared in several Elvis Presley movies, usually in uncredited roles as a dancer. She had a cameo appearance as a damsel in distress in The Monkees film Head and in the mid-1970s had significant roles in major films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Young Frankenstein.

While some more recent sources give Garr a revised birth year of 1949, older sources state she was born in 1944 or 1947. As she certainly wasn't 13 when she played a dancer in "Fun in Acapulco", and she graduated from high school in 1962 [1], one of the earlier birth years is most likely accurate.

Garr has also appeared frequently on television. A notable early appearance was in the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" (1968). She played a recurring character in McCloud and was also a regular on several variety shows in the early 1970s including The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, The Ken Berry 'Wow' Show and The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour. She hosted Saturday Night Live three times during the early and mid-1980s. She played a recurring character in Friends (the estranged birth mother of Lisa Kudrow's character, Phoebe Buffay) in the late-1990s.

Garr appeared in a series of local television commercials in several markets for various FM radio stations.

Garr has continued to work in spite of having suffered from multiple sclerosis since 1983, undiagnosed until 1999.

Early in her career she was sometimes credited as Terri Garr, Terry Garr, Teri Hope, or Terry Carr.

She is the mother of an adopted daughter, and resides in Los Angeles.

Filmography

• A Swingin' Affair (1963)
• Fun in Acapulco (1963)
• Kissin' Cousins (1964)
• Viva Las Vegas (1964)
• What a Way to Go! (1964)
• Roustabout (1964)
• Pajama Party (1964)
• The T.A.M.I. Show (1965) (documentary)
• John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965)
• Red Line 7000 (1965)
• The Cool Ones (1967)
• Clambake (1967)
• The Mystery of the Chinese Junk (1967)
• For Pete's Sake (1968)
• Maryjane (film) (196])
• Head (1968) (cameo)
• Changes (1969)
• The Moonshine War (1970)
• The Conversation (1974)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
• The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977) (short subject)
• Oh, God! (1977)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Java Junkie (1979) (short subject)
• Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979) (Cameo)
• The Black Stallion (1979)
• Witches' Brew (1980)
• Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
• One from the Heart (1982)
• The Escape Artist (1982)
• Tootsie (1982)
• The Sting II (1983)
• The Black Stallion Returns (1983)
• Mr. Mom (1983)
• Firstborn (1984)
• After Hours (1985)
• Miracles (1986)
• Full Moon in Blue Water (1988)
• Out Cold (1989)
• Let It Ride (1989)
• Short Time (1990)
• Waiting for the Light (1990)
• The Player (1992) (Cameo)
• Mom and Dad Save The World (1992)
• Save the Rabbits (1994) (short subject)
• Dumb & Dumber (1994)
• Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter) (1994)
• Perfect Alibi (1995)
• Michael (1996)
• The Definite Maybe (1997)
• Changing Habits (1997)
• A Simple Wish (1997)
• Kill the Man (1999)
• Dick (1999)
• The Sky is Falling (2000)
• Ghost World (2000)
• Life Without Dick (2001)
• Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary)

Television

• Shindig! (1964) (September-October, 1964)
• Star Trek (1968)
• The Ken Berry 'Wow' Show (1972)
• The Bob Newhart Show (1973) (guest star on 10/13/73 episode)
• M*A*S*H (1973)
• The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour (1973)
• The Girl with Something Extra (1973-1974)
• The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (regular performer from 1973-1974)
• The Sonny Comedy Revue (1974)
• Cher (1975-1976)
• Law and Order (1976)
• The Sonny and Cher Show (1976-1977)
• Once Upon a Brothers Grimm (1977)
• Doctor Franken (1980)
• Prime Suspect (1982)
• The Winter of Our Discontent (1983)
• To Catch a King (1984)
• Intimate Strangers (1986)
• Fresno (1986) (miniseries)
• Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990)
• A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder (1990)
• The Trap (1991)
• Adventures in Wonderland (1991-1995)
• Good & Evil (1991)
• Stranger in the Family (1991)
• Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (1992)
• The Whole Shebang (1993)
• Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert (1993)
• Aliens for Breakfast (1994)
• Good Advice (cast member in 1994)
• Women of the House (1995)
• Double Jeopardy (1996)
• Murder Live! (1997)
• Ronnie & Julie (1997)
• NightScream (1997)
• Barney's First Adventures (1998)
• Batman Beyond (1999-2001) (voice)
• Half a Dozen Babies (1999)
• Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999)
• Friends - Pheobe's Mother (2000)
• I've Got a Secret (2000-2001)
• A Colder Kind of Death (2001)
• "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (2005)

Cultural References

• In the Alf Tales (1998) episode "Cinderella", when the title character enters in her finery, her evil stepmother and stepsisters think she looks familiar. One comments, "She looks just like... like..." and all three cry, "Teri Garr!"

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