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Teri Garr was an American actor, dancer, and television and film actor. Born Terry Ann Garr in Los Angeles on December 11, 1944, she began her work period in 1963. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Garr was educated at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, California State University, Northridge, North Hollywood High School, and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
Her career spanned until 2011. She died of multiple sclerosis from natural causes in Los Angeles on October 29, 2024.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1952
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Speedbumps
- Speedbumps
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Teri Ann Garr (December 11, 1944 – October 29, 2024) was an American actress, dancer and singer. She frequently appeared in comedic roles throughout her career, which spanned four decades and includes over 140 credits in film and television. Her accolades include one Academy Award nomination, a BAFTA Award nomination, and one National Board of Review Award. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, Garr was…
Known for
- Mel Brooks: Unwrapped — Self (archive footage)2018
- Mel Brooks: Make a Noise — Self (archive footage)2013
- A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' — Self2008
- Expired — Claire's Mother / Aunt Tilde2007
- Kabluey — Suze2007
- Unaccompanied Minors — Aunt Judy (uncredited)2006
- Legends — Inga (archive footage) (uncredited)2006
- Crumbs — Lorraine Bergman2006
- A Taste Of Jupiter — Ginnie2005
- The Wiki-Tiki Tail of Aloha Scooby-Doo — Self2005
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 11
- Total plays
- 28
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission
· 2020 · cited 9,210x
- Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases
· 2009 · cited 6,987x
- Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: 2019 Update to the 2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Guideline for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
· 2019 · cited 6,163x
- Behavioral inhibition, behavioral activation, and affective responses to impending reward and punishment: The BIS/BAS Scales.
· 1994 · cited 5,481x
- Dementia prevention, intervention, and care
· 2017 · cited 5,079x
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Quotes
- “I don't want to say I'm envious of any other woman's body. It's a bad myth to perpetuate. Women have enough trouble liking themselves.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Terry Ann Garr , ( 1944-12-11 ) December 11, 1944, Los Angeles, California , U.S.
- Died
- October 29, 2024 (2024-10-29) (aged 79), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Burial place
- San Fernando Mission Cemetery , Mission Hills , California , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Actors Studio Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
- Occupations
- Actress, comedian, dancer
- Years active
- 1963–2011
- Spouse
- John O'Neil ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1993 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1996 )
- Partners
- Roger Birnbaum (1979–1983) David Kipper (1983–1990)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ann
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- stage actor
- Educated at
- Stella Adler Studio of Acting
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Notable work
- Tootsie
- Field of work
- acting
- Image
- Teri Garr - signed.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
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- Commons category
- Teri Garr
- date of birth
- 1944-12-11
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Commons gallery
- Teri Garr
- start of work period
- 1963-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- date of death
- 2024-10-29
- birth name
- Terry Ann Garr
- cause of death
- multiple sclerosis
- end of work period
- 2011-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Teri Garr
- unmarried partner
- Roger Birnbaum
- pseudonym
- Terri Garr
- place of burial
- San Fernando Mission Cemetery
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Encyclopedic overview
Terry Ann "Teri" Garr (December 11, 1944 – October 29, 2024) was an American actress, comedian and dancer. 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.
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