Teri Garr, who starred in Tootsie and Young Frankenstein, dies

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Oscar-nominated actress Teri Garr, best known for her roles in Young Frankenstein and Tootsie, has died.

Garr, who also starred in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, died at the age of 79, her manager said on Tuesday.

She appeared in three episodes of Friends in 1997 and 1998 as Phoebe Abbot, the estranged birth mother of Lisa Kudrow’s Phoebe.

Garr struggled with health issues in recent years and in 2002, she revealed she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and had been suffering symptoms for some two decades.

Five years later, she underwent surgery for a brain aneurysm.

Teri Ann Garr was born in Cleveland in 1944 to showbusiness parents.

Her father, Eddie, was a vaudeville performer and actor who appeared on Broadway and her mother, Phyllis, had been a member of the Rockettes precision dance troupe.

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Teri Garr in Los Angeles in 2012. Pic: Reuters
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Teri Garr in Los Angeles in 2012. Pic: Reuters

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