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Teri Garr
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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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Paget Brewster and Teri Garr in "Unaccompanied Minors"
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Actress Teri Garr arrives to the 15th Annual Race to Erase MS at the Hyatt Regency on May 2, 2008 in...
Actress Teri Garr arrives to the 15th Annual Race to Erase MS at the Hyatt Regency on May 2, 2008 in...
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