Teri Hatcher
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Hatcher on the cover of the April 2006 Vanity Fair in which she reveals she was abused as a child. |
Teri Lynn Hatcher (born
December 8 1964 in
Sunnyvale, California) is an
Emmy-nominated and
Golden Globe Award-winning
American actress and author. She gained attention for her role as
Lois Lane in the television series
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman co-starring 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.
Early life
Hatcher's father is an electrical engineer and her mother a
computer scientist. An only child, she attended Mango Junior High (now
Sunnyvale Middle School),
Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and
De Anza College in
Cupertino.
In March 2006, Hatcher revealed to
Vanity Fair that she was
sexually abused from the age of 5 by her then uncle, Richard Hayes Stone (who was later divorced by Hatcher's aunt). 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] In an interview appearing in Vanity Fair magazine, Hatcher said she told prosecutors about her abuse in 2002 because she was haunted by thoughts of the 14-year-old girl who shot herself, and feared her uncle might escape conviction.
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 a guest appearance in
Star Trek: The Next Generation and had a recurring role in
MacGyver, playing his friend Penny Parker.
She also had a guest appearance in an episode of
Seinfeld, in which her character, Sidra, broke up with Jerry because she found out Jerry was trying to have Elaine surreptitiously determine whether Sidra had breast implants. In one of the more memorable lines in the show, she declared, "Oh, and by the way: they're real, and they're
spectacular."
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 released her first book, Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life, described as a personal, heartfelt, and light-hearted manifesto on life, love, and happiness. In conjunction with the book, Teri has also launched a line of apparel and other merchandise.
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 Hatcher said the two went out on only one date. She was recently quoted as saying that being sexually molested at such a young age has affected 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] Hatcher later said on
The Oprah Winfrey Show that she and Seacrest went out on three dates, but Seacrest didn't want to continue dating.[
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