Teri Garr
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The business is in a funny position these days. They gear everything to those target audiences that make money. Things look more and more like TV and the quality becomes different. People aren`t so interested in seeing movies about women`s problems.
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Birthdate :December 11, 1944
Country : United States of America
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Job :actors
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1964
Was a Go-Go dancer in the seminal rock-and-roll movie The T.A.M.I. Show (1964) (V).1966
The "Assignment: Earth" episode of "Star Trek" (1966), in which Garr plays a ditsy secretary, was written as the springboard for a spin-off series. The new series was to feature more adventures of Roberta Lincoln (Garr) and Gary Seven (Robert Lansing), but it never came about.1977
Steven Spielberg cast her in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) after seeing her work on a coffee commercial.1977
Attended CSU Northridge along with her Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) co-star, Richard Dreyfuss.1983
Continues to work despite the fact that she is battling multiple sclerosis, first diagnosed in 1983.1992
Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 177-178. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 08160233871993
Daughter, Molly O'Neill, was born in November 1993. Her marriage to John O'Neil Keenan took place on the day their adopted daughter Molly was born.2001
Was the winner on a celebrity edition of "Weakest Link" (2001).2006
Recovering from a brain aneurysm, suffered on December 21, 2006.
