Teri GarrTeri Garr (born December 11, 1949 in Lakewood, Ohio) is a United States actress. One of her best known roles was as Sandy in Tootsie, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress in 1982. Her movie debut was in the film A Swingin' Affair (1963). In her early career, she appeared in a number of Elvis Presley movies, usually in uncredited roles. She appeared as a damsel-in-distress in The Monkees film, Head. She has also appeared frequently on television. A notable early appearance was in the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" in 1968. She played a recurring character in McCloud and was also a regular on several variety shows in the mid-1970s. She hosted Saturday Night Live on three occasions in the early and mid-1980s. She played a recurring character in Friends, the estranged birth mother of Phoebe Buffay, in the late-1990s. She has suffered from multiple sclerosis since 1983 (diagnosed in 1999), although she has managed to continue her work. She is sometime credited as Terri Garr, Terry Garr, or Terry Carr. Selected filmography
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She is sometime credited as Terri Garr, Terry Garr, or Terry Carr. Liane Haid died in Bern, Switzerland, in 2000, aged 105. She has suffered from multiple sclerosis since 1983 (diagnosed in 1999), although she has managed to continue her work. She made her last film appearance in 1953. She played a recurring character in Friends, the estranged birth mother of Phoebe Buffay, in the late-1990s. Her notable films include Lady Hamilton (1921; her breakthrough role); Lucrezia Borgia (1926); Die Csardasfürstin (1927, based on the operetta by Emmerich Kálmán); and the talkies Das Lied ist aus (The Song Is Ended) (1930) and Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn (1936). She hosted Saturday Night Live on three occasions in the early and mid-1980s. She got married and also ended her film career. She played a recurring character in McCloud and was also a regular on several variety shows in the mid-1970s. Having refused several offers from Hollywood, she escaped from Nazi Germany to Switzerland in 1942 "because of the regime, because everything was bombed, and because all the good directors had left". A notable early appearance was in the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" in 1968. Her first motion picture was a propaganda film made during the First World War, Mit Herz und Hand fürs Vaterland (1916). She worked for UFA and, as a trained singer, easily made the transition to the sound era, appearing in comedy films alongside German stars such as Willi Forst, Georg Alexander, Theo Lingen, and Heinz Rühmann. She has also appeared frequently on television. Born in Vienna, Haid trained both as a dancer and singer and became the epitome of the Süßes Wiener Mädel ("Sweet Viennese Girl") and a popular pin-up throughout the 1920s and 30s. She appeared as a damsel-in-distress in The Monkees film, Head. Haid as Lucrezia Borgia and Conrad Veidt as Cesare Borgia (1926). In her early career, she appeared in a number of Elvis Presley movies, usually in uncredited roles. Liane Haid (August 16, 1895 - November 28, 2000) was an Austrian actress who has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star. Her movie debut was in the film A Swingin' Affair (1963). List of centenarians. One of her best known roles was as Sandy in Tootsie, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress in 1982. Teri Garr (born December 11, 1949 in Lakewood, Ohio) is a United States actress. A Swingin' Affair (1963). Head (1968). Young Frankenstein (1974). The Conversation (1974). Oh God! (1977). Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). The Black Stallion (1979). Tootsie (1982). One From the Heart (1982). Mom (1983). Mr. |