Actress. The daughter of actor Eddie Garr, Teri trained as a dancer during her youth and performed with the San Francisco Ballet in her early teens. After experiencing acting in TV commercial, she made her motion picture debut in 1966. Her first memorable TV role was playing Roberta Lincoln in the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" (1967). Other films during this period include The Monkees' picture Head (1968), The Moonshine War (1970) and The Conversation (1974). Garr became familiar to television audiences as she appeared often on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (1973 to 1974). In 1974, she was cast as Inga in the classic Mel Brooks film Young Frankenstein. She followed this with the pictures Won Ton Ton the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), Oh, God! (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Black Stallion (1979), One from the Heart (1982), Tootsie (1982, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress), Mr. Mom (1983), Firstborn (1984), After Hours (1985), Let It Ride (1989), Short Time (1990), The Player (1992), Dumb and Dumber (1994), Prêt-à-Porter (1994) and Michael (1996). She died following a lengthy battle with multiple sclerosis (MS).
Actress. The daughter of actor Eddie Garr, Teri trained as a dancer during her youth and performed with the San Francisco Ballet in her early teens. After experiencing acting in TV commercial, she made her motion picture debut in 1966. Her first memorable TV role was playing Roberta Lincoln in the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" (1967). Other films during this period include The Monkees' picture Head (1968), The Moonshine War (1970) and The Conversation (1974). Garr became familiar to television audiences as she appeared often on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (1973 to 1974). In 1974, she was cast as Inga in the classic Mel Brooks film Young Frankenstein. She followed this with the pictures Won Ton Ton the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), Oh, God! (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Black Stallion (1979), One from the Heart (1982), Tootsie (1982, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress), Mr. Mom (1983), Firstborn (1984), After Hours (1985), Let It Ride (1989), Short Time (1990), The Player (1992), Dumb and Dumber (1994), Prêt-à-Porter (1994) and Michael (1996). She died following a lengthy battle with multiple sclerosis (MS).
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