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Actress: Tootsie. 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.
- January 1, 1
- 1.70 m
- Lakewood, Ohio, USA
In 1982, she starred opposite Dustin Hoffman in the comedy Tootsie (1982), playing an actress whose actor friend (Hoffman) disguises himself as a woman to further his career. For her role, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Apr 2, 2014 · (1944-) Who Is Teri Garr? American actress Teri Garr is best known as Dustin Hoffman's neurotic girlfriend in the 1982 hit Tootsie. She began working in the 1960s as a dancer in a...
Dec 17, 1982 · Tootsie: Directed by Sydney Pollack. With Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman. Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.
- (115K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Sydney Pollack
- 1982-12-17
Actress: Tootsie. 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 ...
- December 11, 1947
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Feb 17, 2024 · She appeared in the 1977 blockbuster Steven Spielberg film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress for her role in 1982's "Tootsie" with Dustin Hoffman. But in the coming decades, ongoing medical issues negatively impacted her acting career.
Teri Garr as Sandy Lester, an actress; Dabney Coleman as Ron Carlisle, the director; Charles Durning as Leslie "Les" Nichols, Julie's father; Bill Murray as Jeff Slater, a playwright and Michael's roommate; Sydney Pollack as George Fields, Michael's agent; George Gaynes as John Van Horn, a soap opera actor; Geena Davis as April Page, a soap ...