Teri Garrknown for such films as “Springtime for Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has died, Variety reports.
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Known for “Viva Las Vegas” and “Tootsie”
Born in 1944, she began dancing ballet at an early age, which led to a career as a gogo dancer. First film role came in the Elvis Presley film “Viva Las Vegas” and then she made five more Elvis films as a dancer.
Soon she got roles as “confused blonde” in, for example, Mel Brook’s “It’s spring for Frankenstein”, where she plays the assistant Inga. But she also played Richard Dreyfus’s wife in Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounter of the Third Degree” and was nominated for an Oscar for her role as Dustin Hoffman’s colleague in “Tootsie”.
In an interview in 2008, she said that she often had to play “the suffering wife”.
— They don’t write roles where a woman gets to be smart, funny or witty. They write roles where women get run over and that’s the kind of women I play.
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Teri Garr dead – was 79 years old
In recent years, she played, among other things, Phoebe Buffay’s mother in “Friends”. Among others, Tina Fey has stated that Teri Garr was a role model as a funny woman in television and film during the 1970s and 80s.
Garr was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, MS, in 2002 and, according to the family, passed away from the effects of the disease at the age of 79.
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