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Teri Garr (born 11 December 1944; age 79) [1], credited as Terri Garr, is the actress who played Roberta Lincoln in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "Assignment: Earth".

She filmed her scenes between Wednesday 3 January 1968 and Monday 8 January 1968 at Paramount Stage 5 and on location at Paramount Pictures' "Windsor Street" backlot.

Garr earned an Academy Award nomination in 1983 for her supporting role in the Sydney Pollack comedy Tootsie (which also featured James W. Jansen). She is also well-known for her roles in Young Frankenstein (1974, co-starring Kenneth Mars and featuring Ian Abercrombie, Benjie Bancroft, Lars Hensen, John Hugh McKnight, Monty O'Grady, Arthur Tovey, and Max Wagner), and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, with Gene Dynarski and Monty O'Grady).

She was born in Lakewood, Ohio, but was raised in North Hollywood. Her father, Eddie Garr was a comedic actor, her mother, Phyllis Lind Garr worked as a costumer in films.

In her youth, Garr was trained in ballet and other forms of dance, and made her initial film appearances as a background dancer in "beach party" films and Elvis Presley movies, often accompanied by her best friend and roommate at the time, Carey Foster. She appeared uncredited in no less than six Elvis movies from 1963 to 1967, including Kissin' Cousins (1964, with Yvonne Craig, Lance LeGault, Carey Foster, and directed by Gene Nelson), Roustabout (1964, with Lance LeGault, K.L. Smith, Marianna Hill, and Carey Foster), Viva Las Vegas (1964, with Pete Kellett, Lance LeGault, Edwin Rochelle, and William Meader), and Clambake (1967, with James Gregory, Marj Dusay, Angelique Pettyjohn, and Corbin Bernsen).

Her later films include Maryjane (1968, with Byron Morrow and her Original Series co-star Bruce Mars), Head (1968, with Logan Ramsey, Abraham Sofaer, Charles Macaulay and an uncredited Tania Lemani), The Conversation (1974), Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976, with Keye Luke, Dean Stockwell, and Ricardo Montalban), Oh, God! (1977, with Jeff Corey, David Ogden Stiers, Paul Sorvino, William Daniels, and Clyde Kusatsu), The Black Stallion (1979), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981, with Jeffrey Combs), The Black Stallion Returns (1983), Mr. Mom (1983, with Christopher Lloyd, Graham Jarvis, Carolyn Seymour, Derek McGrath, Michael Ensign, and Bruce French), Firstborn (1984, with Peter Weller), After Hours (1985, with Dick Miller), Mom and Dad Save the World (1992, with Wallace Shawn, Thalmus Rasulala, and Dennis Madalone), Dumb & Dumber (1994, with Mike Starr and Charles Rocket), Michael (1996, with Tom Hodges and Wallace Langham), and Dick (1999, with Kirsten Dunst and Saul Rubinek). In addition, she was seen in The Player (1992) and Prêt-à-Porter (1994), both of which also featured Sally Kellerman. The former film also featured appearances by René Auberjonois, Paul Dooley, Louise Fletcher, Whoopi Goldberg, Joel Grey, Malcolm McDowell, Bert Remsen, Dean Stockwell, Brian Tochi, and Ray Walston.

Besides her appearance on Star Trek, Garr has also appeared on such classic television shows as Batman (1966, with William O'Connell), The Andy Griffith Show, M*A*S*H, The Bob Newhart Show, and Barnaby Jones (1974, with William Sargent and Mariette Hartley), and hosted Saturday Night Live (1983, while Joe Piscopo was in the cast). She also had a recurring role as Sgt. Phyllis Norton on McCloud, starring Diana Muldaur and Ken Lynch. Others she worked with on this show include Lawrence Montaigne, Michael Pataki, Nehemiah Persoff, Brock Peters, Eugene Roche, Joseph Ruskin, and Gregory Sierra. She later had a recurring role as Phoebe Buffay's biological (and namesake) mother on Friends, voiced the role of Mary McGinnis on Batman Beyond and Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000, with Dean Stockwell and Frank Welker), and has guest-starred on such shows as Frasier (starring Kelsey Grammer), ER, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Garr publicly revealed in 2002 that she had been diagnosed some years earlier with multiple sclerosis. Garr joins David L. Lander as a Trek actor afflicted with the disease. Despite this, she has continued to work occasionally in film and television. In December 2006, she underwent surgery to treat a brain aneurysm and was said to be "recovering nicely." [2]

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