Teri Garr Movies and Career Information

Terry Ann "Teri" Garr(born December 11, 1944) is an American film and television actress. Garr was born in Lakewood, Ohio in 1944. Her father, Eddie Garr (born Edward L. Gonnoud), was a vaudeville performer, comedian and actor whose career peaked when he briefly took over the lead role in the Broadway drama Tobacco Road. Her mother, Phyllis Lind (née Emma Schmotzer), was a dancer, a Rockette, wardrobe mistress, and model. Garr graduated from North Hollywood High School in 1962. She briefly attended California State University, Northridge, then known as "San Fernando Valley State College". Early in her career, she was credited, variously, as Terri Garr, Terry Garr, Teri Hope, or Terry Carr. Garr's movie debut was as an extra in 1963's A Swingin' Affair. She started out as a background dancer in uncredited roles for youth-oriented films like Pajama Party, a beach party film, The T.A.M.I. Show, and nine Elvis Presley features. Her first speaking role in a motion picture was a one-line appearance as a damsel in distress in the 1968 Monkees film Head written by Jack Nicholson. In 1974, she got her first significant motion-picture role in Francis Ford Coppola's critically acclaimed film