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Teri Garr (born December 11, 1949 in Lakewood,
Ohio) is a United States actor|actor. 

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

Garr has also appeared frequently on television. A
notable early appearance was in the Star Trek: The
Original Series|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 Phoebe
Buffay) in the late-1990s.

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.

==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 (movie)|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 (1968)
*Head (movie)|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 (movie)|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 (1994)
*Perfect Alibi (1995)
*Michael (1996)
*The Definite Maybe (1997)
*Changing Habits (1997)
*A Simple Wish (1997)
*Kill the Man (1999)
*Dick (movie)|Dick (1999)
*The Sky Is Falling (2000)
*Ghost World (movie)|Ghost World (2000)
*Life Without Dick (2001)
*Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary)

==Television==
*The Ken Berry 'Wow' Show (1972) (canceled after 2
months)
*M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H (1973)
*The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour (1973)
(canceled after a few weeks)
*The Girl with Something Extra (1973-1974)
*The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (regular peformer
from 1973-1974)
*The Sonny Comedy Revue (1974) (canceled after 13
episodes)
*Cher (entertainer)|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) (canceled after 2 months)
*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) (canceled after 9
months)
*Double Jeopardy (1996)
*Murder Live! (1997)
*Ronnie & Julie (1997)
*NightScream (1997)
*Batman Beyond (1999-2001) (voice)
*Half a Dozen Babies (1999)
*Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999)
*I've Got a Secret (2000-2001)
*A Colder Kind of Death (2001)



== External links ==
*imdb name|id=0000414|name=Teri Garr