Teri Garr
Gender: Female
Born: 11th December 1947 (currently 64 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Adventures in Wonderland, The Weird Al Show, Women of the House, I've Got a Secret, The Girl with Something Extra, McCloud, Shindig!, Good and Evil, The Legend of Prince Valiant, Batman Beyond, Good Advice, The Dean Martin Show
Movies: Firstborn, Let It Ride, Mr. Mom, Oh, God!, One from the Heart, Prêt-à-Porter, Tootsie, Young Frankenstein, The Absent-Minded Waiter, Life Without Dick, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, The Black Stallion Returns, The Sky is Falling, Casper Meets Wendy, Short Time, The Black Stallion, Roustabout, Head, Viva Las Vegas, Miracles, Clambake, Fun in Acapulco, Ghost World, After Hours, Dick, What a Way to Go!, The Conversation, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Kissin' Cousins, Michael, Mom and Dad Save The World, A Simple Wish, Pajama Party, Honky Tonk Freeway, To Catch a King, Stranger in the Family, Once Upon a Brothers Grimm, Kabluey, Expired, Dumb & Dumber, The Sting II, Out Cold, The Escape Artist, Night Scream, Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, Aloha, Scooby-Doo!, Murder Live!, Mr. Mike's Mondo Video, No Money Down, Full Moon in Blue Water, Criminal Instinct: A Colder Kind of Death, Waiting for the Light, Batman Beyond: The Movie, Unaccompanied Minors, Maryjane, Perfect Alibi, Searching for Debra Winger, Expired, Role Model: Gene Wilder, Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme
Terry Ann "Teri" Garr (born December 11, 1947) is an American film , theatre and television actress and dancer best known for her roles in Young Frankenstein, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Tootsie, Mr. Mom. After Hours, One From the Heart and Friends.
Garr was born in Lakewood, Ohio in 1947. Her father, Eddie Garr (born Edward Leo Gonnoud), was a vaudeville performer, comedian and actor whose career peaked when he briefly took over the lead role in the Broadway drama Tobacco Road. Her mother, Phyllis Lind (née Emma Schmotzer), was a dancer, a Rockette, wardrobe mistress, and model. Her father was of Irish descent and her maternal grandparents were Austrian immigrants.
Early in her career, she was credited, variously, as Terri Garr, Terry Garr, Teri Hope, or Terry Carr. Garr's movie debut was as an extra in 1963's A Swingin' Affair. At the end of her senior year, Garr auditioned for the cast of the Los Angeles Road Company production of West Side Story, where she met one of the most important people in her early career, David Winters, who became her friend, her dance teacher, and her mentor and cast her in many of his early movies and projects.
Garr started out as a background
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