Revealed: Teri Garr's Assets & Salary in Net Worth 2026: Career Earnings & Assets

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Teri had more than 150 acting credits to her name, including the films "Young Frankenstein" (1974), "Oh, God!" (1977), "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), "The Black Stallion" (1979), "Mr. Mom" (1983), "Dumb and Dumber" (1994), and "Prêt-à-Porter" (1994) and the television series "McCloud" (1970–1975), "The Sonny andCherComedy Hour" (1971–1974), "Good & Evil" (1991), "Good Advice" (1994), "Women of the House" (1995), and "Friends" (1997–1998). Garr voiced Mary McGinnis on the animated Kids' WB series "Batman Beyond" (1999–2000) as well as the films "Batman Beyond: The Movie" (1999) and "Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker" (2000), and she has also lent her voice to the film "Aloha, Scooby-Doo!" (2005), the TV shows "The Legend of Prince Valiant" (1993), "Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man" (1994), "King of the Hill" (2000), and "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" (2003), and the video game "Black Dahlia" (1998). She published the autobiography "Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood" in 2005. Teri was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the late '90s, and in 2011, she retired from acting.

Garr appeared in the films "Waiting for the Light" (1990), "The Player" (1992), "Mom and Dad Save the World" (1992), "Michael" (1996), "A Simple Wish" (1997), "Casper Meets Wendy" (1998), and "Dick" (1999), and in 1994, she co-starred withJim Carrey,Jeff Daniels, andLauren Hollyin "Dumb and Dumber" and withSophia Loren,Kim Basinger,Lauren Bacall, andJulia Robertsin "Prêt-à-Porter." Teri played Denise Sandler on ABC's "Good & Evil" (1991), the Duchess on The Disney Channel's "Adventures in Wonderland" (1993), Paige Turner on the CBS sitcom "Good Advice" (1994), and Sissy Emerson on the "Designing Women" spin-off "Women of the House" (1995), and in 2000, she appeared in several off-Broadway performances of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues." She then had uncredited roles in "Ghost World" (2001) and "Unaccompanied Minors" (2006), and she guest-starred on "Felicity" (2001), "Strong Medicine" (2001), "MADtv" (2002), "Life with Bonnie" (2003), and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (2006). Garr appeared in the films "The Sky Is Falling" (2000), "A Taste of Jupiter" (2005), "Expired" (2007), and "Kabluey" (2007) and the TV movie "A Colder Kind of Death" (2001), and as of this writing, her most recent acting role was in the 2011 pilot "How to Marry a Billionaire."

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Teri Garr was an American actress, comedian, and dancer who had a net worth of $6 million at the time of her death in October 2024. Teri Garr earned an Academy Award nomination for her performance as Sandy Lester in the 1982 film "Tootsie."

Teri Garr was born Teri Ann Garr on December 11, 1944, in Lakewood, Ohio. Teri's mother, Phyllis, was a model and dancer as well as a wardrobe mistress for the Rockettes, and her father, Eddie, was an actor, comedian, and vaudeville performer who starred in the Broadway play "Tobacco Road." Garr and her older brothers, Phil and Ed, grew up in Cleveland and New Jersey before the family moved to Los Angeles. Sadly, Eddie died of a heart attack when Teri was 11 years old, and she said of her father's death, "[It] left us bereft, without any kind of income. And I saw my mother be this incredibly strong, creative woman who put three kids through college—one of my brothers is a surgeon. Any kind of lessons we wanted, we had to have scholarships or sweep the floors. It had to be free. And so we always had to try harder." Garr trained for several hours per day in ballet during her youth until her "feet would be bleeding." She attended North Hollywood High School, then she spent two years at San Fernando Valley State College before moving to New York to pursue an acting career. There, Teri studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and the Actors Studio.

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As a high school senior, Garr auditioned for a traveling production of "West Side Story," and while performing in the musical, she met actor/dancer/choreographer David Winters, who later hired her for several projects, including a fewElvisPresley movies. Teri made her film debut in 1963's "A Swingin' Affair," then she had uncredited roles as a dancer in "Kissin' Cousins" (1964), "Viva Las Vegas" (1964), "What a Way to Go!" (1964), "Red Line 7000" (1965), and "Clambake" (1967). In the '60s, Garr also appeared in the films "Girl Happy" (1965), "For Pete's Sake!" (1966), "The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk" (1967), "Maryjane" (1968), "Head" (1968), and "Changes" (1969) and the television shows "Mr. Novak" (1964), "Shindig!" (1964–1965), "Dr. Kildare" (1965), "Hullabaloo" (1965), "Batman" (1966), "That Girl" (1967–1968), "TheAndy GriffithShow" (1968), "Star Trek" (1968), "Mayberry R.F.D." (1968), "Room 222" (1969), and "It Takes a Thief" (1969). She was a regular cast member on "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" (1971–1974), "The Sonny and Cher Show" (1976–1977), "TheKen Berry'Wow' Show" (1972), and she had recurring roles on "McCloud" (1970–1975), "TheBob NewhartShow" (1973–1974), "The Girl with Something Extra" (1973–1974), and "Cher" (1975).

Garr played Inga in "Young Frankenstein" (1974), Bobbie Landers in "Oh, God!" (1977), Ronnie Neary in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), and Mrs. Ramsey in "The Black Stallion" (1979) and "The Black Stallion Returns" (1983), and she hosted "Saturday Night Live" three times between 1980 and 1985. In 1982, she co-starred withDustin Hoffmanin "Tootsie," which earned 10 Academy Award nominations, including one for Teri. In 1998, the film was preserved in the Library of Congress's National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." In the '80s, Garr also starred in the films "Witches' Brew" (1980), "One from the Heart" (1982), "The Escape Artist" (1982), "TheStingII" (1983), "Mr. Mom" (1983), "Firstborn" (1984), "Miracles" (1986), "Full Moon in Blue Water" (1988), "Out Cold" (1989), and "Let It Ride" (1989) and appeared in the television series "Faerie Tale Theatre" (1982) and "Sesame Street" (1987) and the TV movies "Prime Suspect" (1982) "The Winter of Our Discontent" (1983), "Pack of Lies" (1987), and "Teri Garr in Flapjack Floozie" (1988). Teri guest-starred on "Tales from the Crypt" (1991), "Dream On" (1992), "Murphy Brown" (1993), "TheLarry SandersShow" (1993), "Men Behaving Badly" (1996), "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" (1997), and "ER" (1999), and she played Phoebe Abbott, Phoebe Buffay's birth mother, in three episodes of "Friends" (1997–1998).

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