Teri Hatcher

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Teri Hatcher
Teri Hatcher at the 1995 Emmy Awards
Birth name	Teri Lynn Hatcher
Born	December 8, 1964 (age 42) Sunnyvale, California, United States
Spouse(s)	Jon Tenney (27 May 1994 - March 2003) (divorced) 1 child Marcus Leithold (4 June 1988 - 1989) (divorced)
Notable roles	Katherine 'Kiki' Tango in Tango & Cash (1989) Lois Lane in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993-1997) Becky Foxx in 2 Days in the Valley (1996) Susan Mayer in Desperate Housewives (2004-present) Paris Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Best Actress in a Television Comedy or Musical 2005 Desperate Housewives

Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and author. She gained attention for her role as Lois Lane in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman co-starring with Dean Cain. Hatcher is also well-known for portraying Susan Mayer, in Desperate Housewives, a charming accident-prone divorcee.

1 Biography
2 Film and television roles
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Hatcher was born to parents Owen and Esther Hatcher in Palo Alto, California. Her father is an electrical engineer and her mother is a computer scientist. An only child, she attended Mango Junior High (now Sunnyvale Middle School), Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and De Anza College in Cupertino.

In March 2006, Hatcher revealed to Vanity Fair that she was sexually abused from the age of 5 by Richard Hayes Stone, an uncle by marriage who was later divorced by Hatcher's aunt. Her parents, she said, were unaware of the abuse at the time. In 2002, she assisted Santa Clara County prosecutors in indicting Stone for a more recent molestation that led his female victim to commit suicide at the age of 14. Stone pleaded guilty to four counts of molestation and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.^[1] In an interview appearing in Vanity Fair, Hatcher said she told the prosecutors about her own abuse because she was haunted by thoughts of the 14-year-old girl who shot herself, and feared Stone might escape conviction.

[edit] Career

Hatcher began her performing career as a young girl taking ballet lessons at the San Juan Girls' Ballet Studio in downtown Los Altos, California. She later studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater. One of her early jobs (in 1984) was as a cheerleader with the San Francisco 49ers. During this time she also appeared as one of the mermaids on the show The Love Boat in its final season.

Teri Hatcher with her Lois & Clark co-star Dean Cain rehearsing for the 45th Emmy Awards, September 19, 1993

While probably most noted for playing Lois Lane in the TV series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993-1997), Hatcher has also appeared in such feature films as Spy Kids (2001), the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, Dead in the Water (1991), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), and Heaven's Prisoners (1996). ABC had cancelled Lois & Clark in 1997, and Hatcher was very disappointed about the show's demise. She was also desperate in looking for work. She has also made a guest appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation and had a recurring role on MacGyver as Penny Parker, a naïve, high-strung, young woman who always seemed to get into trouble.

She also had a guest appearance in an episode of Seinfeld, in which her character, Sidra, broke up with Jerry because she found out Jerry was trying to have Elaine surreptitiously determine whether Sidra had breast implants. In one of the more memorable lines in the show, she declared, "Oh, and by the way: they're real, and they're spectacular."

Hatcher has also appeared in a series of popular Radio Shack television commercials alongside NFL Hall of Famer Howie Long. The pair remain close friends, and together have bought farm land on the outside of Los Angeles, with the intent of eventually raising endangered species. Hatcher said her plan to do so came about after reading an article featuring the world's top 25 endangered species.

Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher at the 1993 Emmy Awards.

She hosted Saturday Night Live in 1996.

In 1997, Hatcher was voted "Sexiest Woman in the World" by the readers of FHM.

Hatcher beat out four other actresses for the lead role on ABC's Desperate Housewives, on which she stars as single mother Susan Mayer, a role for which she won the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award in January 2005. In 2005, Hatcher also won the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award in the same category. In July 2005, she was nominated for an Emmy Award as Best Actress in a Comedy Series for the same role, along with co-stars Marcia Cross and Felicity Huffman, who won the award.

As of April 2006, Hatcher is one of the highest paid television actresses in the United States. She reportedly earns $380,000 per episode of Desperate Housewives. In May 2006, she released her first book, Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life. In conjunction with the book, she has also launched a line of apparel and merchandise. Furthermore she is prominently featured in an international campaign for Repeat Cashmere.

[edit] Personal life

Between 1985 and 1988, she had a relationship with her MacGyver costar Richard Dean Anderson. In 1988, Hatcher married Marcus Leithold, but they were divorced the following year. In 1994, she married actor Jon Tenney; they had a daughter, Emerson Rose, in November 1997, and divorced in March 2003.

[edit] Film and television roles

Year	Film/program/series	Role	Other notes
1985	The Love Boat	Amy, Loveboat Mermaid	television series; cast member from 1985 to 1986
1986	MacGyver	Penny Parker	TV series; guest starring in seven episodes between 1986 and 1991
1986	Capitol	Angelica Stimac Clegg	television series; cast member from 1986 to 1987
1987	Karen's Song	Laura Matthews	television series
1987	Night Court	Kitty	TV series; guest starring in the episode "Who Was That Mashed Man?"
1987	Missing You Now	Girlfriend	Michael Bolton music video
1988	CBS Summer Playhouse	Lauri Stevens	TV series; guest starring in the episode "Baby on Board"
1988	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Lt. Bronwyn Gail Robinson	TV series; guest starring in the episode "The Outrageous Okona"
1989	The Big Picture	Gretchen
1989	L.A. Law	Tracy Shoe	TV series; guest starring in the episode "I'm in the Nude for Love"
1989	Quantum Leap	Donna Eleese	TV series; guest starring in the episode "Star-Crossed"
1989	Tango & Cash	Katherine 'Kiki' Tango
1990	Murphy Brown	Madeline Stillwell	TV series; guest starring in the episode "Fax or Fiction"
1990	Tales from the Crypt	Stacy	TV series; guest starring in the episode "The Thing from the Grave"
1991	The Brotherhood	Teresa Gennaro	made-for-TV movie
1991	Soapdish	Ariel Maloney
1991	Sunday Dinner	TT Fagori	television series
1991	Dead in the Water	Laura Stewart	made-for-TV movie
1991	The Exile	Marissa	TV series; guest starring in the episode "Eclipse"
1992	Straight Talk	Janice
1993	All Tied Up	Linda Alissio	straight-to-video
1993	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Lois Lane	television series (1993 – 1997)
1993	Brain Smasher... A Love Story	Samantha Crain	straight-to-video
1993	Seinfeld	Sidra	TV series; guest starring in three episodes between 1993 and 1998
1994	The Cool Surface	Dani Payson
1996	Dead Girl	Passer-by
1996	Heaven's Prisoners	Claudette Rocque
1996	2 Days in the Valley	Becky Foxx
1997	Tomorrow Never Dies	Paris Carver
1998	Since You've Been Gone	Maria Goldstein	made-for-TV movie
1998	Frasier	Marie	TV series; guest starring in the episode "First Do No Harm"
1999	Fever	Charlotte Parker
2000	Running Mates	Shawna Morgan	made-for-TV movie
2001	Say Uncle		made-for-TV movie
2001	Spy Kids	Ms. Gradenko
2001	Jane Doe	Jane Doe	made-for-TV movie
2003	A Touch of Fate	Megan Marguilas
2003	Momentum	Jordan Ripps	Sci-Fi Channel made-for-TV movie
2004	Desperate Housewives	Susan Mayer	television series (2004 – present)
2004	Two and a Half Men	Liz	TV series; guest starring in the episode "I Remember the Coatroom, I Just Don't Remember You."
2006	Coraline	The Other Mother
2007	Resurrecting the Champ	Flak