| Teri Hatcher | |
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Hatcher at the World of Color Premiere |
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| Born | Teri Lynn Hatcher December 8, 1964 Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, presenter, writer |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Spouse | Marcus Leithold (1988–1989) Jon Tenney (1994–2003) |
Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an American actress, writer, and presenter. She is known for her television roles as Susan Mayer on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives, and Lois Lane on the ABC comedy-drama series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. In 2005, her Desperate Housewives work won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actor's Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actress in a Comedy Series, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2005.
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Hatcher was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of Esther (née Beshur), a computer programmer who worked for Lockheed Martin, and Owen W. Hatcher, a nuclear physicist and electrical engineer.[1] Hatcher's father is of Welsh and Choctaw Native American descent, and her mother is of half Syrian and half French/German descent.[1] Teri Hatcher took ballet lessons at the San Juan School of Dance in Los Altos. Her big debut was as the lead flying monkey in the "Wiz Of Oz." Hatcher grew up in Sunnyvale, California.[1] and attended Mango Junior High (now Sunnyvale Middle School), Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and De Anza College in Cupertino. As an undergraduate she studied mathematics and engineering.
In March 2006 Hatcher revealed to Vanity Fair that she was sexually abused from the age of five by Richard Hayes Stone, an uncle by marriage who was later divorced by Hatcher's aunt. She said her parents were unaware of the abuse at the time.[2] In 2002 she assisted Santa Clara County prosecutors with their indictment of Stone for a more recent molestation that led his female victim to commit suicide at the age of 14.[1] Stone pleaded guilty to four counts of child molestation and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.[3] 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. Stone died of colon cancer on August 19, 2008, having served six years of his sentence.[4]
Hatcher studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater. One of her early jobs (in 1984) was as an NFL cheerleader with the San Francisco 49ers.[1] From September 1985 to May 1986 she joined the cast of the TV series The Love Boat, playing the role of "Amy", one of the "Mermaid" showgirls.[5] From 1986 to 1989, she appeared in the recurring role of "Penny Parker" opposite Richard Dean Anderson's eponymous hero on the TV series MacGyver. In 1988, she made a guest appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation as Lt. Robinson. In 1989 she guest-starred in an episode of Quantum Leap titled "Star Crossed".
In 1992 she tried out for the role of Jamie Buchman on Mad About You and made it to the final two choices, but lost the part to future emmy winner Helen Hunt.[6]
Hatcher landed a starring role of Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane (opposite Dean Cain) in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman from 1993 to 1997.[1] At the height of the show's popularity in 1995, a picture of Hatcher wrapped in a Superman cape was reportedly the most downloaded image on the Internet averaging 20,000 downloads each month for a six-month period. "It's a great shot," she told Entertainment Weekly. "Not so much because it's me. It's just cool looking."[7]
In "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," the cast was worried that she would be taller than Superman in heels as she was 5'81⁄2" and Dean Cain was 6". Hatcher beat out Monica Bellucci for the role of Paris Carver in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.[8] Hatcher was three months pregnant at the filming's start, by her then husband, Jon Tenney. An ABC publicist said the pregnancy did not affect the production schedule.[9] Hatcher later regretted playing Paris Carver, saying, "It's such an artificial kind of character to be playing that you don't get any special satisfaction from it."[10] She was voted the world's sexiest woman by readers of popular men's magazine FHM in the same year.[11] Hatcher also appeared in films such as Spy Kids (2001), Dead in the Water (1991), 2 Days in the Valley (1996) and The Cool Surface (1994). She co-starred with Alec Baldwin in Heaven's Prisoners (1996), which failed at the box office. ABC cancelled Lois & Clark in 1997.
Hatcher made a much-discussed guest appearance on a 1993 episode of Seinfeld, in which her character, Sidra, breaks up with Jerry because she believes that Jerry was trying to have Elaine surreptitiously determine whether Sidra had breast implants. ("They're real... and they're spectacular.") She returned to play Sidra in two subsequent episodes, The Pilot, and The Finale (Part 2).[12]
Hatcher appeared in a series of Radio Shack television commercials alongside NFL player Howie Long. They remain close friends and together have bought farm land on the outskirts of Los Angeles, with the intent of eventually raising endangered species.
Hatcher hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live in 1996. She beat out four other actresses for one of the lead roles on ABC's Desperate Housewives, on which she stars as Susan Mayer, a role for which she won the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award in January 2005.[1] In 2005, Hatcher 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 role, along with costars Marcia Cross and Felicity Huffman.[13]
As of April 2006 Hatcher is one of the highest paid television actresses in the United States. She reportedly earns $285,000 per episode of Desperate Housewives. In May 2006, she released her first book, Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life.[1]
Hatcher performs The Beatles song "Good Night" on the 2006 charity album Unexpected Dreams – Songs From the Stars.
On April 9, 2008, Hatcher appeared on Idol Gives Back, singing Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats".
In 2010 Hatcher made a return to the Superman franchise, with a special guest role in the final season of Smallville as Lois Lane's mother, Ella Lane.[14][15] The episode continued a tradition of former Lois Lane actresses portraying the character's mother many years later. Noel Neill appeared as Lois' mother in the 1978 film Superman: The Movie, and Phyllis Coates made a similar appearance on Lois & Clark.[16]
A report in November 2010 suggested that Hatcher, along with co-star Felicity Huffman, would be quitting Desperate Housewives,[17] but ABC denied the claim.[18] Hatcher later addressed the rumors of her departure from Desperate Housewives saying, "There are not enough adjectives to describe how stupid, off base, and ridiculously untrue this is."
On December 10, 2011, Men's Health listed Hatcher as number 38 in their "Hottest Women Of All Time" list.[19]
Hatcher married Marcus Leithold on June 4, 1988; they divorced the following year. On May 27, 1994, she married actor Jon Tenney; they had a daughter, Emerson Rose, on November 10, 1997, and divorced in March 2003.
In June 2007, Hatcher appeared on UK chat show The Paul O'Grady Show, where she revealed she writes a column in Glamour.
In February 2008, Hydroderm sued Hatcher for breach of contract, claiming she had promoted the beauty products of other companies. She insisted her promotion of CityLips' lip plumper did not affect the Hydroderm deal. Her attorney Alan Wertheimer called the lawsuit an "unjustified and public assault" on her "good name, reputation and celebrity."[20] Her lawyer persuaded a judge in Los Angeles to move the case to arbitration.[21]
On September 13, 2009, she finished the Malibu Triathlon (0.5 mi/0.80 km ocean swim, 18 mi/29 km out-and-back bike course, and 4 mi/6.4 km out-and-back run course) in 2h 6mn 50.7s.[22] She returned to the event in 2010 to complete only the swim portion as a fundraiser.[23]
| Title | Year | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Love Boat | 1985–1986 | Amy, Love Boat Mermaid | TV series |
| MacGyver | 1986–1991 | Penny Parker | TV series, seven episodes |
| Capitol | 1986–1987 | Angelica Stimac Clegg | TV series |
| Karen's Song | 1987 | Laura Matthews | TV series |
| Night Court | 1987 | Kitty | TV series, episode: "Who Was That Mashed Man?" |
| CBS Summer Playhouse | 1988 | Lauri Stevens | TV series, episode: "Baby on Board" |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation | 1988 | Lt. Bronwyn Gail Robinson | TV series, episode: "The Outrageous Okona" |
| The Big Picture | 1989 | Gretchen | |
| L.A. Law | 1989 | Tracy Shoe | TV series, episode: "I'm in the Nude for Love" |
| Quantum Leap | 1989 | Donna Eleese | TV series, episode: "Star-Crossed" |
| Tango & Cash | 1989 | Katherine 'Kiki' Tango | |
| Murphy Brown | 1990 | Madeline Stillwell | TV series, episode: "Fax or Fiction" |
| Tales from the Crypt | 1990 | Stacy | TV series, episode: "The Thing from the Grave" |
| The Brotherhood | 1991 | Teresa Gennaro | TV movie |
| Soapdish | 1991 | Ariel Maloney | |
| Sunday Dinner | 1991 | TT Fagori | TV series |
| Dead in the Water | 1991 | Laura Stewart | TV movie |
| The Exile | 1991 | Marissa | TV series, episode "Eclipse" |
| Straight Talk | 1992 | Janice | |
| Brain Smasher... A Love Story | 1993 | Samantha Crain | straight-to-video |
| Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | 1993–1997 | Lois Lane | TV series, 87 episodes |
| Seinfeld | 1993 | Sidra Holland | TV series, episodes: "The Implant" and "The Pilot" |
| The Cool Surface | 1994 | Dani Payson | |
| All Tied Up | 1994 | Linda Alissio | |
| Dead Girl | 1996 | Passer-by | |
| Heaven's Prisoners | 1996 | Claudette Rocque | |
| 2 Days in the Valley | 1996 | Becky Foxx | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies | 1997 | Paris Carver | |
| Since You've Been Gone | 1998 | Maria Goldstein | TV movie |
| Frasier | 1998 | Marie | TV series, episode "First Do No Harm" |
| Seinfeld | 1998 | Sidra Holland | TV series, episode: "The Finale (Part 2)" |
| Fever | 1999 | Charlotte Parker | |
| Running Mates | 2000 | Shawna Morgan | TV movie |
| Say Uncle | 2001 | TV movie | |
| Spy Kids | 2001 | Ms. Gradenko | |
| Jane Doe | 2001 | Jane Doe | TV movie |
| A Touch of Fate | 2003 | Megan Marguilas | |
| Momentum | 2003 | Jordan Ripps | TV movie |
| Desperate Housewives | 2004–2012 | Susan Mayer | TV series |
| Two and a Half Men | 2004 | Liz | TV series, episode "I Remember the Coatroom, I Just Don't Remember You." |
| Resurrecting the Champ | 2007 | Andrea Flak | |
| Coraline | 2009 | Coraline's Mother/The Other Mother | voice only |
| Smallville | 2010 | Ella Lane | TV episode: "Abandoned" |
| Award | Year | Category | Result | For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Apple Award | 1996 | Female Discovery of the Year | Won | |
| Saturn Award | 1998 | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | Tomorrow Never Dies |
| Satellite Award | 2004 | Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy | Nominated | Desperate Housewives |
| Screen Actors Guild Award | 2004 | Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series | Won | Desperate Housewives (shared with cast) |
| Screen Actors Guild Award | 2004 | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | Won | Desperate Housewives (shared with cast) |
| Emmy Award | 2005 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Nominated | Desperate Housewives |
| Golden Globe Award | 2005 | Best Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy | Won | Desperate Housewives |
| Screen Actors Guild Award | 2005 | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | Won | Desperate Housewives (shared with cast) |
| TCA Award | 2005 | Individual Achievement in Comedy | Nominated | Desperate Housewives |
| Golden Globe Award | 2006 | Best Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy | Nominated | Desperate Housewives |
| People's Choice Award | 2006 | Favorite Female Television Star | Nominated | |
| Screen Actors Guild Award | 2006 | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | Nominated | Desperate Housewives (shared with cast) |
| Teen Choice Award | 2006 | TV–Choice Actress | Nominated | Desperate Housewives |
| Screen Actors Guild Award | 2007 | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | Nominated | Desperate Housewives (shared with cast) |
| Prism Award | 2008 | Performance in a Comedy Series | Nominated | Desperate Housewives |
| Screen Actors Guild Award | 2008 | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | Nominated | Desperate Housewives (shared with cast) |
| Preceded by Margot Kidder |
Actress to portray Lois Lane 1993–1997 |
Succeeded by Erica Durance |
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