Teri Hatcher

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Image:Teri Hatcher is Lois Lane.jpg Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8 1964 in Sunnyvale, California) is an American actress. She gained attention for her role as Lois Lane in the television series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman co-staring with Dean Cain. (In the mid-1990s, a publicity photo of Hatcher wearing Superman's cape became the most downloaded image on America Online.) Hatcher has achieved her greatest fame to date starring in the show Desperate Housewives.

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Biography

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Early life

Hatcher's father is an electrical engineer and her mother a computer scientist (both of English descentTemplate:Fact). An only child, she attended Mango Junior High (now Sunnyvale Middle School), Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and De Anza College in Cupertino. Image:Teri Hatcher on the cover of the April 2006 issue of Vanity Fair.jpg In March 2006, Hatcher revealed to Vanity Fair that she was sexually abused from age of 5 by her then uncle, Richard Hayes Stone (who was later divorced by Hatcher's mother's sister). Her parents, she said, were unaware of the abuse at the time. In 2002, she assisted Santa Clara County, California 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]

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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 Love Boat in its final season.

While probably most noted for playing Lois Lane in the TV series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, 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). Hatcher has also made guest appearances in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Seinfeld, and had a recurring role in MacGyver, playing his friend Penny Parker.

Hatcher has also appeared in a series of popular Radio Shack television commercials alongside NFL Hall of Famer Howie Long. The pair remain very 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.

Teri hosted Saturday Night Live in 1996.

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

She now stars as the single mother Susan Mayer on ABC's Desperate Housewives, 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 Teri will release her first book, Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life, described as a personal, heartfelt, and often very funny manifesto on life, love, and the lessons we all need to learn -- and unlearn -- on the road to happiness. The book is being published by Hyperion (publisher).

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Personal life

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. (She was reportedly forced to give Tenney half of her savings in the settlement).

In January 2006, it was reported that Hatcher was romantically involved with actor George Clooney, but neither confirmed these reports. She was recently quoted as saying that being sexually molested at such a young age has impacted her relationships with men, and that she hopes to have healthier relationships in the future. In March 2006, she was photographed kissing American Idol host Ryan Seacrest, but told Access Hollywood that she was "not attached" and said "Well, I guess what's caught on film is caught on film, and it would be hard for me to stand here and say that it wasn't, you know me."[2]

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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"
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 Tango & Cash Katherine 'Kiki' Tango
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."
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