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Actress Teri Garr, known for her roles successful classical comedies including Young Frankenstein and Tootsie, died Oct. 29 astatine property 79, her rep confirmed to E! News.
By Will Reid Oct 29, 2024 8:36 PMTags
In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2024
Hollywood is saying goodbye to Teri Garr.
The actress, known for her comedic roles successful films including Young Frankenstein, Mr. Mom and Tootsie, died peacefully successful Los Angeles Oct. 29 astatine property 79 pursuing a lengthy conflict with aggregate sclerosis (MS), her rep confirmed to E! News.
After tiny roles successful movie and tv arsenic a teenager, including respective uncredited appearances arsenic a dancer successful movie musicals starring Elvis Presley, Garr gained prominence successful the aboriginal 1970s. Her enactment successful Tootsie earned her peculiar captious acclaim, including an Academy Award information for Best Supporting Actress successful 1983.
On the tiny screen, Garr made predominant impermanent appearances connected The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman. She was besides known for her recurring relation arsenic Phoebe Buffay’s biologic mother, Phoebe Abbott, connected Friends.
In 2002, Garr revealed she was diagnosed with MS—defined by the Mayo Clinic arsenic an auto-immune illness that affects the connection betwixt the encephalon and the remainder of the body—sharing that she was determined not to unrecorded successful self-pity.
“I don't spot the point,” she told Larry King during an quality connected Larry King Live that October. “I mean, I'm ever a precise applicable idiosyncratic and I conscionable don't spot the constituent of wallowing successful it. It's conscionable a discarded of time. It's a discarded of energy.”
Following her passing, The Sopranos alum Jamie-Lynn Sigler—who revealed her ain MS diagnosis successful 2016—paid tribute to the precocious histrion connected societal media.
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“I ever loved Teri Garr arsenic an actress,” she wrote successful a station shared connected Instagram Stories. “Secretly I looked up to her for truthful agelong erstwhile I kept my MS a concealed and she truthful bravely shared her travel and besides however it truly affected her career.”
Sigler continued, “Teri, we volition proceed to correspond you and grant you and committedness to not springiness up connected thing due to the fact that of this disease.”
Michael Keaton, who starred alongside Garr successful Mr. Mom, besides remembered his precocious costar, saying the quality of her decease marked “a time I feared and knew was coming.”
“Forget astir however large she was arsenic an histrion and comedienne,” helium said successful an Instagram post, “she was a fantastic woman. Not conscionable large to enactment with but large to beryllium around.”
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