Teri Hatcher

Background

Teri Lynn Hatcher was born in the California town of Palo Alto. Hatcher was the only child of Owen Walker Hatcher, Jr., a nuclear physicist, and electrical engineer, and her mother, Esther, was a computer programmer. A few years after her birth, her parents relocated to the nearby Los Alto, where she took ballet training at the San Juan School of Dance. After some years spent in Los Alto, the family relocated to Sunnyvale, where she attended Mango Junior High School and then Fremont High School, where she was captain of the Featherettes dance team. Following in her parent’s footsteps, Hatcher enrolled at De Anza College in Cupertino, California, and studied mathematics and engineering. Concurrently, she also started attending acting lessons at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. However, she eventually gave up her studies to focus on acting.

Hatcher started appearing in television series from 1985 to 1986 when she played Amy in the series “The Love Boat.” Her career on television lasted another three years. She appeared in six episodes of the American action-adventure series, “MacGyver.” She also featured in an episode of “Murphy Brown” in 1990 as a guest star. From 1993 to 1997, Hatcher secured a role as Lois Lane, the “Daily Planet” reporter, in A.B.C’s “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.” When the series was at its pinnacle in 1995, a photo of Hatcher wrapped in a Superman cape became the most-downloaded photo for several months. Soon later, in 1997, Hatcher landed the role of Paris Carver in the blockbuster “James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies.” Hatcher received many acting nominations due to her fame and acting talent, including Best Actress in a Quality Drama Series (1994) for “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” and Best Supporting Actress (1998) for “Tomorrow Never Dies.” However, Hatcher’s biggest television role remains “Desperate Housewives.” After debuting in the pilot episode on October 3, 2004, she appeared in every episode of the series until its end on May 13, 2012. Her performance garnered her a Golden Globe, a Primetime Emmy nomination, and three Screen Actors Guild awards.

Hatcher married Marcus Leithold in 1988, but the couple divorced a year later. In 1994, she married Jon Tenney, with whom she has a daughter, Emerson Rose, born on November 10, 1997. However, the couple divorced in 2003. Hatcher continued to work in 2007, writing a column for the magazine “Glamour.” Apart from her talent and charisma, Hatcher is now a mother who inspires many of her followers.