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Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8 1964 in
Sunnyvale, California) is an United
States|American actor|actress. She gained fame for
her role as Lois Lane in the television series
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of
Superman|Lois and Clark, and currently stars in
the show Desperate Housewives.

==Professional life==
Teri Hatcher began her performing career as a
young girl taking ballet lessons at the San Juan
girls ballet studio in downtown Los Altos,
California|Los Altos before studying acting at the
American Conservatory Theatre. One of her early
jobs was as a San Francisco 49ers
cheerleader/dancer in 1984. 

While probably most noted for playing Lois Lane in
the TV series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures
of Superman, she was also in Spy Kids, the 1997
James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies, and many
other movies. She has also made guest appearances
in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Seinfeld,
and had a recurring role in MacGyver as his young
friend, Penny Parker. Hatcher also appeared in a
series of popular Radio Shack television
commercials alongside NFL Hall of Famer Howie
Long.

In 1997, Hatcher was voted "Sexiest Woman in the
World" by the readers of FHM.

She now stars as the single mother Susan Mayer on
American Broadcasting Company|ABC's Desperate
Housewives, a role for which she won the Best
Actress in a Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award
in January 2005. In July 2005, she was nominated
for an Emmy Award in the Best Actress in a Comedy
Series catagory for the same role, along with
fellow co-stars Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross.

==Personal life==
Teri's parents are intellectuals: her father was a
nuclear physicist and her mother was a computer
scientist. She attended Fremont High School
(Sunnyvale)|Fremont High School in Sunnyvale.

In 1994, she married actor Jon Tenney. They had a
daughter, Emerson Rose, and later divorced.

==External links==
* imdb name|id=0000159|name=Teri Hatcher
* http://www.nndb.com/people/901/000025826 NNDB
Profile: Teri Hatcher