![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: December 11, 1949 in Lakewood, OH Biography:"Teri Garr" found early visibility with a mixture of dramatic and comic roles before maturing, so to speak, into her persona as a smart comedienne typecast as an eccentric ditz. Her warm, fluffy presence and great sense of timing made her a Hollywood mainstay, still finding regular work into her fifties, with her intelligence forever providing depth to a panoply of sweetly goofy supporting roles.
The progeny of old-school, low-level industry types -- vaudevillian "Eddie Garr" and wardrobe mistress "Phyllis Garr" -- the actress was born as Terry Garr on December 11, 1949. She had launched into a professional dance career by age 13, working with the San Francisco ballet and joining a touring company of West Side Story. Her toes soon tapped her into the movies, providing her steady work during the 1960s in such films as The TAMI Show, What a Way to Go, and John Goldfarb Please Come Home, with her first... Full Biography
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