Oscar nominee Teri Garr who acted in such movies as ’Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie’ breathed her last in Los Angeles. She was 79, reported Variety. After receiving multiple sclerosis diagnosis they died struggling with the disease for a certain period of time.
She first appeared in a movie in A Swingin’ Affair in 1963 as an extra. Garr was on TV and film in the 1970s, 1980s and the 1990s.
Goodman said she was diagnosed with MS in 2002, and she suffered an aneurysm in 2006, according to Variety.
Her initial appearance in a movie was a speaking part as an extra in the movie A Swingin’ Affair the following year in 1963. She also began working as a dancer.
Garr also starred in several films that really captured the public’s eye such as a supporting role in the thriller directed by Francis Ford Coppola ‘The Conversation’ 1974. Stepping into the big league after she featured in Mel Brooks’ horror comedy Young Frankenstein as Inga, the attractive assistant of Dr Frederick Frankenstein. She subsequently had a dramatic role in Steven Spielberg’s science fiction ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ and the latter a drama ‘The Black Stallion’.
Garr later got a role of Phoebe Abbott that is a regular character at ‘Friends’.
This lady was born in Ohio but when she was young she have to Los Angeles where she completed her secondary education at North Hollywood High School and went to Cal State Northridge and then transferred to New York where she studied acting.
In 1982 she performed in the title role in the comedy ‘Tootsie’ which starred Dustin Hoffman, saying an actress who is helped by an actor friend (Hoffman) into disguising himself as a woman. For the part, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination.
She subsequently got two major breaks, both in the genres of comedy: as the wife to Michael Keaton ‘s character in Mr. Mom (1983) and as a supporting character in Martin Scorsese’s After Hours (1985). That same year Garr let her talent shine through as Marge Nelson in the science fiction/adventure/romantic comedy film known as Mom and Dad Save the World.
Garr worked with some of the directors of the seventies and the eighties most recognized directors such as Brooks, Spielberg, Pollack, Coppola Scorsese for ‘after hours’, and Robert Altman for player and ‘pret-a-porter’.
She ventured into Comedy hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ three times and was a regular fixture on the ‘The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,’ and ‘Late Night With David Letterman.’
She is survived by her daughter, Molly O’Neil and her grandson Tyryn, according to the Variety.
