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 Teri Garr can claim a career in show business by birthright. She was the daughter of Eddie Garr, a Broadway stage and film actor, and Phyllis Garr, a dancer. While she was still an infant, her family moved from Hollywood to New Jersey but, after the death of her father when she was 11, the family returned to Hollywood, where her mother became a wardrobe mistress for movies and television. While Garr's dancing can be seen in five Elvis Presley movies, her first speaking role in motion pictures was in the 1968 feature Head (1968), starring The Monkees. In the 1970s she became well established in television with appearances on shows such as Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), It Takes a Thief (1968) and McCloud (1970), and became a semi-regular on The Sonny and Cher Show (1976) as Cher's friend, Olivia. Garr has since risen to become one of Hollywood's most versatile, energetic and well-recognized actresses. She has starred in many memorable films, including Young Frankenstein (1974), Oh, God! (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Mr. Mom (1983), After Hours (1985) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Supporting Actress in Tootsie (1982). Other film roles include The Black Stallion (1979), One from the Heart (1981), The Escape Artist (1982), Firstborn (1984), Let It Ride (1989), Full Moon in Blue Water (1988), Out Cold (1989), Short Time (1990), Waiting for the Light (1990), Mom and Dad Save the World (1992), Perfect Alibi (1995), Ready to Wear (1994) and A Simple Wish (1997).
Bio:
Teri Garr can claim a career in show business by birthright. She was the daughter of Eddie Garr, a Broadway stage and film actor, and Phyllis Garr, a dancer. While she was still an infant, her family moved from Hollywood to New Jersey but, after the death of her father when she was 11, the family returned to Hollywood, where her mother became a wardrobe mistress for movies and television. While Garr's dancing can be seen in five Elvis Presley movies, her first speaking role in motion pictures was in the 1968 feature Head (1968), starring The Monkees. In the 1970s she became well established in television with appearances on shows such as Star Trek: The Original Series (1966), It Takes a Thief (1968) and McCloud (1970), and became a semi-regular on The Sonny and Cher Show (1976) as Cher's friend, Olivia. Garr has since risen to become one of Hollywood's most versatile, energetic and well-recognized actresses. She has starred in many memorable films, including Young Frankenstein (1974), Oh, God! (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Mr. Mom (1983), After Hours (1985) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Supporting Actress in Tootsie (1982). Other film roles include The Black Stallion (1979), One from the Heart (1981), The Escape Artist (1982), Firstborn (1984), Let It Ride (1989), Full Moon in Blue Water (1988), Out Cold (1989), Short Time (1990), Waiting for the Light (1990), Mom and Dad Save the World (1992), Perfect Alibi (1995), Ready to Wear (1994) and A Simple Wish (1997).
Tivia:
Recovering from a brain aneurysm, suffered on December 21, 2006.Continues to work despite the fact that she is battling multiple sclerosis, first diagnosed in 1983.She is a National Ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and National Chair for the Society's Women Against MS program (WAMS).Steven Spielberg cast her in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) after seeing her work on a coffee commercial.Daughter, Molly O'Neil, was born in November 1993. Her marriage to John O'Neil Keenan took place on the day their adopted daughter Molly was born.Was a Go-Go dancer in the seminal rock-and-roll movie The T.A.M.I. Show (1964).Her first film work was as a chorus girl in Elvis Presley and Shirley Maclaine movies.The Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) episode, Assignment: Earth (1968), in which Garr plays a ditsy secretary, was written as the springboard for a spin-off series. The new series was to feature more adventures of "Roberta Lincoln" (Garr) and "Gary Seven" (Robert Lansing), but it never came about.Made professional dancing debut with the San Francisco Ballet.Attended CSU Northridge along with her Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) co-star, Richard Dreyfuss.She has appeared in six films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The T.A.M.I. Show (1964), The Conversation (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Black Stallion (1979) and Tootsie (1982).Late Night with David Letterman (1982) mainstay. She took a shower on the show in 1985.Told a story at The Moth storytelling night, about her experiences with a cheating boyfriend while living in L.A. The story made it to The Moth podcast.Release of her book "Speedbumps: Flooring It Thru Hollywood". (2005)Daughter of actor Eddie Garr and wardrobe mistress Phyllis Garr.Terri Garr was featured and introduced in Anaheim's "Disney Land live show-business performances" - in her earliest career experience during a summer-night-time musical show at the Anaheim Disney Land - "Tomorrow Land" featured - outdoor theatrical stage - "Show Me America!" production, where Terri performed on roller skates, dressed as the "Statue of Liberty Goddess" during the Disney outdoor stage musical's tribute to the U.S.A. The variety show performed twice a night, repeated every week-night, during the entire summer season. The live entertainment feature was inaugurated in the late '60s to hold the park's attendees over into the night festivities, an incentive to watch an "Anaheim live themed Broadway spectacle" ... fully staged with a live pit band, talented-musical singers and dancers, magical scenery and costumes! The show was always well received at every performance. Terri, in her Liberty Goddess full long robed costume - feet in flashy gold painted skates, with a gold spike crown, a book in her left arm's elbow , and a gold torch held up high in her right hand was choreographed flying from one side of the stage proscenium, across to the opposite stage proscenium, skating down the center stage downhill run-way, circling the oval stage front runway, and skating uphill back - UP - to the performance area. The pit band was located inside this stage ramp runway. Terri had stamina and whizzed around that stage like a real trouper, singing her heart out during her skating routine ! Terri was featured during the entire 60 minute production.Was the winner on a celebrity edition of Weakest Link (2001).Garr's father appeared in "Tobacco Road" on Broadway and as Marilyn Monroe's father in "Ladies of the Chorus".Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1977" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 29.Garr's first interest was ballet dancing.Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 177-178. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387Has twice played a woman married to a man who was considered insane because of something he saw, both released the same year: Oh, God! (1977) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).Was in attendance at the wedding of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.Lobbied for the role of Elizabeth McGraw in 9? Weeks (1986).Alumna of Stella Adler Studio of Acting.Friend of Connie Sellecca and Toni Basil.Spent childhood in New Jersey.Her father was of Irish descent. Her maternal grandparents, Louis J. Schmotzer and Theresa Gundel, were Austrian immigrants.Has two brothers: Edward Jr. and Phillip.As Teri Hope she appeared in a few television films such as Fugitive Nights, Dream On and Deliver Them From Evil.At the 1994 Golden Globes, she delivered the Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical Performance to Robin Williams for his role in Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) where he plays an actor who dresses himself as a woman, which is the same premise as Tootsie (1982) where Garr appeared. |
| Name: |
Teri Garr |
Type: |
Actress,Additional Crew,Soundtrack (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
Platform: |
IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Actress,Additional Crew,Soundtrack |
| Products for sale: |
Actress,Additional Crew,Soundtrack |
| Model rank: |
84 |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 03:44:19 |
| Height: |
5' 7' (1.70 m) |
| Biography: |
Teri Garr can claim a career in show business by birthright. She was the daughter of Eddie Garr, a Broadway stage and film actor, and Phyllis Garr, a dancer. While she was still an infant, her family moved from Hollywood to New Jersey but, after the |
| Trivia: |
Recovering from a brain aneurysm, suffered on December 21, 2006.Continues to work despite the fact that she is battling multiple sclerosis, first diagnosed in 1983.She is a National Ambassador for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and National Chair for the Society's Women Against MS program (WAMS).Steven Spielberg cast her in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) after seeing her work on a coffee commercial.Daughter, Molly O'Neil, was born in November 1993. Her marriage to John O'Neil Keenan took place on the day their adopted daughter Molly was born.Was a Go-Go dancer in the seminal rock-and-roll movie The T.A.M.I. Show (1964).Her first film work was as a chorus girl in Elvis Presley and Shirley Maclaine movies.The Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) episode, Assignment: Earth (1968), in which Garr plays a ditsy secretary, was written as the springboard for a spin-off series. The new series was to feature more adventures of "Roberta Lincoln" (Garr) and "Gary Seven" (Robert Lansing), but it never came about.Made professional dancing debut with the San Francisco Ballet.Attended CSU Northridge along with her Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) co-star, Richard Dreyfuss.She has appeared in six films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The T.A.M.I. Show (1964), The Conversation (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Black Stallion (1979) and Tootsie (1982).Late Night with David Letterman (1982) mainstay. She took a shower on the show in 1985.Told a story at The Moth storytelling night, about her experiences with a cheating boyfriend while living in L.A. The story made it to The Moth podcast.Release of her book "Speedbumps: Flooring It Thru Hollywood". (2005)Daughter of actor Eddie Garr and wardrobe mistress Phyllis Garr.Terri Garr was featured and introduced in Anaheim's "Disney Land live show-business performances" - in her earliest career experience during a summer-night-time musical show at the Anaheim Disney Land - "Tomorrow Land" featured - outdoor theatrical stage - "Show Me America!" production, where Terri performed on roller skates, dressed as the "Statue of Liberty Goddess" during the Disney outdoor stage musical's tribute to the U.S.A. The variety show performed twice a night, repeated every week-night, during the entire summer season. The live entertainment feature was inaugurated in the late '60s to hold the park's attendees over into the night festivities, an incentive to watch an "Anaheim live themed Broadway spectacle" ... fully staged with a live pit band, talented-musical singers and dancers, magical scenery and costumes! The show was always well received at every performance. Terri, in her Liberty Goddess full long robed costume - feet in flashy gold painted skates, with a gold spike crown, a book in her left arm's elbow , and a gold torch held up high in her right hand was choreographed flying from one side of the stage proscenium, across to the opposite stage proscenium, skating down the center stage downhill run-way, circling the oval stage front runway, and skating uphill back - UP - to the performance area. The pit band was located inside this stage ramp runway. Terri had stamina and whizzed around that stage like a real trouper, singing her heart out during her skating routine ! Terri was featured during the entire 60 minute production.Was the winner on a celebrity edition of Weakest Link (2001).Garr's father appeared in "Tobacco Road" on Broadway and as Marilyn Monroe's father in "Ladies of the Chorus".Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1977" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 29.Garr's first interest was ballet dancing.Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 177-178. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387Has twice played a woman married to a man who was considered insane because of something he saw, both released the same year: Oh, God! (1977) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).Was in attendance at the wedding of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.Lobbied for the role of Elizabeth McGraw in 9? Weeks (1986).Alumna of Stella Adler Studio of Acting.Friend of Connie Sellecca and Toni Basil.Spent childhood in New Jersey.Her father was of Irish descent. Her maternal grandparents, Louis J. Schmotzer and Theresa Gundel, were Austrian immigrants.Has two brothers: Edward Jr. and Phillip.As Teri Hope she appeared in a few television films such as Fugitive Nights, Dream On and Deliver Them From Evil.At the 1994 Golden Globes, she delivered the Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical Performance to Robin Williams for his role in Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) where he plays an actor who dresses himself as a woman, which is the same premise as Tootsie (1982) where Garr appeared. |
| Trademarks: |
Bubbly blonde persona with various undercurrents of extreme quirkiness, neuroses or even menace |
| Quotes: |
I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials . . . I'd say things like, "Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?" and "Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach". Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress.
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Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it [cocaine] from. Cher said they're going to make two monuments to us--the two girls who lived through Hollywood and never had cocaine.
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It's different things at different times, you know? It's like when you read a true crime story and think it's really good, then the next book you pick up is a biography and you really like that. I don't consider that I have to judge any of the movies I make all the time, but people are always asking me: "What's your favorite movie?" And I never know what to say. They're just jobs to me, really. I take the part I'm lucky enough to get and do the best I can and then -- I don't know, they're just jobs.
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Listen, I don't know. It's all theory. If I knew what I was talking about, I would be running the studio. That's why they keep changing the heads of the studios: Nobody knows. Nobody knows. But I'm sure it has affected the quality of movies. Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don't think you can do anything that's very sensitive. Everything's sort of broad strokes and big gestures--adventure things that boys, guys--want to see.
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The business is in a funny position these days. They gear everything to those target audiences that make money. Things look more and more like TV and the quality becomes different. People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems. |
| Salaries: |
Oh, God! (1977) - $40,000 |
| Job title: |
Actress,Additional Crew,Soundtrack |
| Others works: |
TV Commercial for Magic 107 FM, Orlando, FL (1998)
Music video for Ray Parker Jr.: "Ghostbusters"
TV commercial for 106.7 Lite FM radio, New York, NY (1995)
TV commercial for WXRT-FM, Chicago, IL (1998)
TV commercial for Safeguard soap
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| Spouse: |
John O'Neil (November 11, 1993 - 1996) (divorced, 1 child) |
| Children: |
Molly O'Neill |
| Parents: |
Eddie Garr
Phyllis Garr |
| Relatives: |
Phillip Garr (Sibling)
Edward Garr Jr (Sibling) |
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