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Teri Garr

Born

in Los Angeles, California, The United States

December 11, 1944

Died

October 29, 2024

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Terry Ann Garr, known as Teri Garr, was an American actress. Known for her comedic roles in film and television in the 1970s and 1980s, she often played women struggling to cope with the life-changing experiences of their husbands, children or boyfriends. She received nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for her performance in Tootsie (1982), playing a struggling actress who loses the soap opera role of a female hospital administrator to her male friend and acting coach.
Garr was raised primarily in North Hollywood, California. She was the third child of a comedic-actor father and a studio costumier mother. In her youth, Garr trained in ballet and other forms of dance. She began her career as a teenager with smal Terry Ann Garr, known as Teri Garr, was an American actress. Known for her comedic roles in film and television in the 1970s and 1980s, she often played women struggling to cope with the life-changing experiences of their husbands, children or boyfriends. She received nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for her performance in Tootsie (1982), playing a struggling actress who loses the soap opera role of a female hospital administrator to her male friend and acting coach.
Garr was raised primarily in North Hollywood, California. She was the third child of a comedic-actor father and a studio costumier mother. In her youth, Garr trained in ballet and other forms of dance. She began her career as a teenager with small roles in television and film in the early 1960s, including appearances as a dancer in nine Elvis Presley musicals. After spending two years attending college, Garr left Los Angeles and studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City. She had her breakthrough appearing in the episode Assignment: Earth of Star Trek in 1968.
After gaining attention for her 1974 roles in Francis Ford Coppola's thriller The Conversation and Mel Brooks's comedy horror Young Frankenstein, Garr became increasingly successful with major roles in Carl Reiner's comedy Oh, God! and Steven Spielberg's science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (both 1977) and The Black Stallion (1979). In the 1980s, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her comedic role as an acting student in Sydney Pollack's romantic comedy Tootsie, and enjoyed leading roles in Coppola's musical drama One from the Heart (1982), Mr. Mom (1983), and Firstborn (1984). She later acted in films such as Martin Scorsese's black comedy After Hours (1985), Let It Ride (1989), Dumb and Dumber (1994), Prêt-à-Porter (1994), Michael (1996) and Ghost World (2001).
Garr's quick wit and charming banter made her a sought-after guest on late-night shows such as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman. On television, she took a guest role as Phoebe Abbott in the sitcom Friends (1997–98). In 2002, Garr announced that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the symptoms of which had affected her ability to perform. She retired from acting in 2011 and died in 2024. ...more

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	Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw, Anne Heche (Narrator), Jeremy Sisto (Narrator) 3.84 avg rating — 11,268 ratings — published 1898 — 742 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood by Teri Garr, Henriette Mantel 3.83 avg rating — 558 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phyllis A. Whitney Presents Malice Domestic 5 (Malice Domestic, #5) by Phyllis A. Whitney (Editor), Carolyn Wheat, Teri Garr (Narrator) 3.73 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE WOMAN'S BOOK OF SOUL (NOT ON CD!) (1-CASSETTE AUDIOTAPE AUDIOBOOK) by Sue Patton Thoele, Rae Ecklund (Illustrator), AME BEANLAND (Illustrator) 4.01 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catholic Digest: Words for Quiet Moments by Teri Garr (Narrator), Richard Gilliland (Narrator), Loretta Swit (Narrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catholic Digest: People Are Like That by Teri Garr (narrator), Loretta Swit (Narrator), Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Young Frankenstein / O.S.T. by Michael Gruskoff (Producer), Marty Feldman (Artist), Madeline Kahn (Artist) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“People struggle with how to react to illness, and I think it's part of human nature to over-respond, whether with undo pity, discrimination or just plain wackiness.”
― Teri Garr, Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood

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“My mother taught us to be proud no matter what we had or what we looked like, as long as we were good people with real friends and interesting experiences.”
― Teri Garr, Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood

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“But as this chorus of tingling, tripping, beeping, and stabbing reached a crescendo, I couldn't ignore my symptoms anymore. My body was a discordant symphony, and I was definitely not the conductor.”
― Teri Garr, Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood

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