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

One of her best known roles was as Sandy in Tootsie, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress in 1982. Her movie debut was in the 1963 film A Swingin' Affair as an extra. In her early career, she appeared in a number of Elvis Presley movies, usually in uncredited roles. She appeared as a damsel-in-distress in The Monkees film, Head.

She has also appeared frequently on television. A notable early appearance was in the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" in 1968. She played a recurring character in McCloud and was also a regular on several variety shows in the mid-1970s. She hosted Saturday Night Live on three occasions in the early and mid-1980s. She played a recurring character in Friends, the estranged birth mother of Phoebe Buffay, in the late-1990s.

She has suffered from multiple sclerosis since 1983 (diagnosed in 1999), although she has managed to continue her work.

Early on 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 (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 (1968)
• 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)
• 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 (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 (1999)
• The Sky Is Falling (2000)
• Ghost World (2000)
• Life Without Dick (2001)
• Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary)

External links

• Teri Garr's Internet Movie Database entry