Most Recent Role: Duchess on Adventures in Wonderland
Alias Name(s): Terry Garr, Terri Garr
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Birthday: 12-11-1949
Alias Name(s): Terry Garr, Terri Garr
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Lakewood, Ohio, USA
Birthday: 12-11-1949
Teri Garr (born Terry Ann Garr in the later 1940s - sources disagree on her year of birth) has been an actress of note on television and film since the 1960s. While never a break-out star, she has played numerous roles (generally as naive and good-hearted women) in some of the best-loved movies of the last 35 years, including Tootsie , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Young Frankenstein...
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Considered Inconsiderate
Tuesday 1 January 2008 on Disney
It had to happen sooner or later. When the Mad Hatter sees the March Hare as being inconsiderate of the Mad Hatter's feelings, the two long-time buddies finally break up and stop being friends. But Wonderland just isn't the same without the two zany characters acting friendly toward each other....
When her career was at its height, Teri Garr was named one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1977" by John Willis in Screen World (Vol. 29).
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Aside from talk shows and interviews, multiple sclerosis has prevented Teri Garr from appearing in many live action or filmed roles recently. She did star in a sit-down role in a Los Angeles production of The Vagina Monologues in December of 2000.
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Teri Garr has said that she learned a passable German accent in twenty four hours after Mel Brooks told her that she had lost the role she had originally tried out for in Young Frankenstein to Madeline Kahn.
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Despite her reputation as a fairly "lightweight" actress, Teri Garr has acted in films directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Sydney Pollack, Mel Brooks, and Martin Scorsese.
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Though she often played "spacey" and un-intelligent characters on film and TV, Garr competed well on celebrity Jeopardy in 1999 and tied for second place.
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Teri Garr: (on her quirky personality) I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?
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Teri Garr: (speaking in her memoir on her multiple sclerosis) People always ask, "what was it like when you got the diagnosis?" It was anything but traumatic. After twenty years it was a relief to finally have someone say, "this is what you have, let's deal with it."
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Other Appearances
| Star | |
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Adventures in Wonderland
Duchess |
Batman Beyond
Mary McGinnis |
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Fresno
Talon Kensington |
Good & Evil
Denise Sandler |
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Good Advice
Paige Turner (1994) |
I've Got a Secret (1952)
Panelist |
| Recurring Role | |
|---|---|
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Friends
Phoebe Abbott Sr. |
Late Night With David Letterman
Guest |
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Late Show with David Letterman
Guest |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Guest |
| Guest Star | |
|---|---|
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Banyon
A Date with Death Mabel |
Barnaby Jones
Image in a Cracked Mirror actress |
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Batman (1966)
Instant Freeze Girl |
Batman (1966)
Rats Like Cheese Girl |
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Batman Beyond
Return of the Joker Mary McGinnis |
Batman Beyond
Revenant Mary McGinnis |
| Other |
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The Hollywood Squares (1966)
July 7-11, 1975 Herself |
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