LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Academy Award-nominated actress Teri Garr, best known for such films as “Young Frankenstein,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Tootsie,” has died at age 79, her manager said on Tuesday.
Garr had struggled with health issues in recent years. In 2002 she disclosed that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis after experiencing symptoms for some two decades. In 2007, she underwent surgery for a brain aneurysm.
Teri Ann Garr was born on Dec. 11, 1944 in the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood, Ohio, to show-business parents: Her father, Eddie, was a vaudeville performer and actor who appeared on Broadway and her mother, Phyllis, had been a Rockette.
After attending college in Los Angeles, Garr moved to New York City to pursue a career first in ballet and then in acting, studying at the famed Actor’s Studio in Manhattan.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine, Editing by Nick Zieminski)
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