Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an American actress who is best known for her roles as
Lois Lane in
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, as
Susan Mayer in
Desperate Housewives and as
Paris Carver in the
James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. She won the
Golden Globe Award for
Best Actress for her role as
Susan Mayer on the television series
Desperate Housewives in
2005. In the same year she won the
Screen Actor's Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actress in a Comedy Series and was also nominated for the
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, but lost out to fellow cast member and close friend,
Felicity Huffman.
Early life
Hatcher was born in
Palo Alto, California, the daughter of Esther (
née Beshur), a computer programmer who worked for
Lockheed Martin, and Owen W. Hatcher, a
nuclear physicist and
electrical engineer.
Hatcher's father is of
Welsh and
Choctaw Native American descent, and her mother is of half
Lebanese and half
French/
German descent.
Hatcher grew up in
Sunnyvale, California.
An
only child, she attended Mango Junior High (now
Sunnyvale Middle School),
Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and
De Anza College in
Cupertino. As an undergraduate she studied mathematics and engineering.
In March 2006, Hatcher revealed to
Vanity Fair that she was
sexually abused from the age of five by Richard Hayes Stone, an uncle by marriage 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 prosecutors with their indictment of Stone for a more recent molestation that led his female victim to commit
suicide at the age of fourteen.
Stone pleaded guilty to four counts of child molestation and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
[BBC NEWS Entertainment | Hatcher reveals child abuse past] In an interview appearing in
Vanity Fair, Hatcher said she told the prosecutors about her own abuse because she was haunted by thoughts of the 14-year-old girl who shot herself, and feared Stone might escape conviction. Stone died of
colon cancer on 19 August 2008, having served six years of his sentence.
Career
Hatcher studied acting at the
American Conservatory Theater. One of her early jobs (in 1984) was as a
NFL cheerleader with the
San Francisco 49ers. During this time, she also appeared as one of the
mermaids on the show
The Love Boat in its final season.
One of her first major roles, Penny Parker, served as a sometime love interest for
Richard Dean Anderson's eponymous hero on
MacGyver from 1986 to 1989.
[
Cain and Teri Hatcher at 45th Emmy Awards.jpg|thumb|left|Hatcher with her [[Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman|Lois & Clark] co-star
Dean Cain rehearsing for the
45th Emmy Awards]] on 19 September 1993
Hatcher landed a co-starring role in 1993, opposite
Dean Cain in
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
She portrayed Daily Planet reporter
Lois Lane in the television series
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman from 1993 to 1997. At the height of the show's popularity in 1995, a picture of Hatcher wrapped in a Superman cape was reportedly downloaded on the Internet 20,000 times. "It's a great shot," she told
Entertainment Weekly. "Not so much because it's me. It's just cool-looking."
Hatcher beat out
Monica Bellucci for the role of
Paris Carver in the 1997
James Bond film
Tomorrow Never Dies.
Hatcher was three months pregnant at the filming's start, by her then-husband,
Jon Tenney. Her publicist said the pregnancy did not affect the production schedule.
Hatcher later regretted playing Paris Carver, saying, "It's such an artificial kind of character to be playing that you don't get any special satisfaction from it."
She was voted the world's sexiest woman by readers of popular men's magazine FHM in the same year.
[terihatcheronline.com/?page_id=69] Hatcher also appeared in films such as
Spy Kids (2001),
Dead in the Water (1991),
2 Days in the Valley (1996) and
The Cool Surface (1994). She co-starred with
Alec Baldwin in
Heaven's Prisoners (1996), which failed at the box office.
ABC cancelled
Lois & Clark in 1997. She made a
guest appearance in
Star Trek: The Next Generation as Lt. Robinson and had a recurring role on
MacGyver as Penny Parker, a high-strung, young woman who always seemed to get into trouble.
Hatcher made a much-discussed guest appearance on 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. ("They're real...and they're spectacular!")
Hatcher appeared in a series of
Radio Shack television commercials alongside
NFL player
Howie Long. They remain close friends and together have bought farm land on the outskirts of Los Angeles, with the intent of eventually raising
endangered species.
Hatcher hosted NBC's
Saturday Night Live in 1996. She beat out four other actresses for one of the lead role on
ABC's Desperate Housewives, on which she stars as
Susan Mayer, a role for which she won the
Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award in
January 2005.
In 2005, Hatcher 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 role, along with co-stars
Marcia Cross and
Felicity Huffman.
As of April 2006, Hatcher is one of the highest paid television actresses in the
United States. She reportedly earns $285,000 per episode of
Desperate Housewives. In May 2006, she released her first book,
Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life.
On 9 April 2008, Hatcher sang on
Idol Gives Back singing
Carrie Underwood's "
Before He Cheats".
Personal life
Hatcher married Marcus Leithold on 4 June 1988; they divorced the following year. On 27 May 1994, she married actor
Jon Tenney; they had a daughter, Emerson Rose, on 10 November 1997, and divorced in March 2003. Hatcher has also been dating Stephen Kay, who played Reginald, the Quartermaines' butler, on
General Hospital.
Since then she and Stephen have broken up.
In June 2007, Hatcher appeared on
The Paul O'Grady Show, where she revealed that she writes a column in
Glamour.
In February 2008, Hydroderm sued Hatcher for breach of contract, claiming that she had promoted the beauty products of other companies. She insisted that her promotion of CityLips' lip plumper did not affect the Hydroderm deal. Her attorney Alan Wertheimer called the lawsuit an "unjustified and public assault" on her "good name, reputation and celebrity."
Her lawyer persuaded a judge in
Los Angeles to move the case to
arbitration.
On 13 September, 2009, she finished the Malibu
Triathlon ( ocean swim, out-and-back bike course, and out-and-back run course) in 2h 6mn 50.7s.
[2009 Malibu Triathlon Results]
Filmography
Awards and nominations
| Year
| Result
| Award
| Category
| Film or series
|
| 1996
| Won
| Golden Apple Awards
| Female Discovery of the Year
|
|
| 1998
| Nominated
| Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films
| Best Supporting Actress
| Tomorrow Never Dies
|
| 2005
| Won
| Golden Globe Award
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
| Desperate Housewives
|
| 2006
| Nominated
| Golden Globe Award
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
| Desperate Housewives
|
| 2005
| Won
| Teen Choice Awards
| Choice V Cast
| Desperate Housewives
|
| 2006
| Nominated
| Teen Choice Awards
| Choice TV Actress
| Desperate Housewives
|
| 2006
| Nominated
| People's Choice Awards
| Favorite Female TV Star
| Desperate Housewives
|
| 2005
| Nominated
| Television Critics Association Awards
| Individual Achievement in Comedy
| Desperate Housewives
|
| 2005
| Won
| British Glamour Magazine
| Woman of the Year
| Desperate Housewives
|
| 2005
| Nominated
| Satellite Awards
| Best Actress in a Series,Comedy or Musical
| Desperate Housewives
|
| 2005
| Won
| Screen Actors Guild Awards
| Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
| Desperate Housewives (Shared with cast)
|
| 2005
| Won
| Screen Actors Guild Awards
| Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
| Desperate Housewives
|
| 2006
| Won
| Screen Actors Guild Awards
| Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
| Desperate Housewives (Shared with cast)
|
| 2007
| Nominated
| Screen Actors Guild Awards
| Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
| Desperate Housewives (Shared with cast)
|
| 2008
| Nominated
| Screen Actors Guild Awards
| Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
| Desperate Housewives (Shared with cast)
|
| 2009
| Nominated
| Screen Actors Guild Awards
| Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
| Desperate Housewives (Shared with cast)
|
| 2008
| Nominated
| Prism Awards
| Performance in Comedy Series
| Desperate Housewives
|
| 2005
| Won
|
| Editor's Special Award
| Desperate Housewives
|
| 2005
| Won
|
| US TV Actress of the Year
| Desperate Housewives
|
| 2005
| Won
| Women's World Award
| World Actress
|
|
