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Hatcher at the World of Color premiere in 2010
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Born |
Teri Lynn Hatcher December 8, 1964 Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress, writer, presenter, singer |
Years active | 1985–present |
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Children | Emerson Tenney |
Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an American actress, writer, presenter, singer, and former NFL cheerleader. She is known for portraying Lois Lane on the ABC series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–97), as Paris Carver in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, and as Susan Mayer on the television series Desperate Housewives (2004–12), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Hatcher was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of Esther (née Beshur), a computer programmer who worked for Lockheed Martin, and Owen Walker Hatcher, Jr., a nuclear physicist and electrical engineer. Her father is of English, Welsh and Irish descent (Hatcher has said that he also has Choctaw ancestry); her mother is of half Syrian and half Czech and Irish, ancestry. Hatcher took ballet lessons at the San Juan School of Dance in Los Altos. She grew up in Sunnyvale, California. and attended Mango Junior High (now Sunnyvale Middle School), Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and De Anza College in Cupertino.