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Teri Garr, actor from Tootsie and Friends, dies aged 79
Oscar-nominated actor was also known for roles in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Young Frankenstein
After becoming a regular on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour in the early 70s, she broke through on the big screen with roles in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation and Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein before playing Richard Dreyfuss’s wife in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977. In the 1980s, she gained an Oscar nomination for her role opposite Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie and also appeared in One From the Heart, The Sting II, Martin Scorsese’s After Hours and alongside Michael Keaton in Mr Mom. Bridesmaids and The Heat director Paul Feig, who directed Garr in the 2006 comedy Unaccompanied Minors, paid tribute on social media: “Oh man, this is devastating.
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