Death of Terry Garry, Toots actor and Phoebe’s mother in Friends

American actor Terry Garry, nominated for an Oscar for Tootsie, died on Tuesday October 29 at the age of 79 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Diversity. Lisa Kudrow, who shared Friends and her last feature film in 2007, paid tribute to him people :

Terry Garry is a brilliant actor who has had a huge influence on me and I know I’m not the only one who feels this way, I feel lucky and grateful to have been able to work with Terry Garry.

Terry Garr made his debut in the drama A Swingin’ Affair in 1963, and after a decade of extras and cameos, he landed a small role in Francis Ford Coppola’s Secret Conversations in 1974, but thanks to Mel Brooks, he exploded as a lab technician. The famous doctor in the comedy Frankenstein Junior.

Asked for Pollack, Coppola and Spielberg

He then joined the cast of Oh, God! ! by Carl Reiner, then in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which she plays the skeptical wife of Richard Dreyfuss’ character. She is the mother of the young hero of The Black Stallion, then Coppola called her again for the experimental Coup de cœur, in which she played the female lead.

In 1982, he was cast as the best friend abandoned by a character played by Dustin Hoffman. Baldand received an Oscar nomination for his performance.

After the ace

However, interesting offers were not in a hurry after that, and he agreed to play in the useless The Swindle 2, then The Return of the Black Stallion, which collected three times less than the first at the box office. She again plays a hard-working woman who financially supports her family alone in the movie Mr. Mom (1983) opposite Michael Keaton.

Martin Scorsese then gave her a supporting role in After Hours, she was the star of Michael Apted’s first child, Full Moon on Blue Water opposite Gene Hackman, and reunited with Richard Dreyfus for Two Dollars on a Defend (1989). Michael J. Fox directed her in an episode of Tales from the Crypt, and after appearing in Robert Altman’s The Player and Dumb & Dumber, she co-starred in the comedy Women of House alongside Delta Burke.

Friends and Lisa Kudrow

In 1997, she was cast in 3 episodes to play the biological mother of Phoebe Buffy’s character (Lisa Kudrow) on Friends. She plays a mother who abandons her twin daughters at birth, the moment of the big reveal that takes place at the end of Season 3 and the beginning of Season 4.

After guest appearances on ER, Felicity, New York Special Unit or as a recurring voice on Batman: The Next Generation, Terry Garr retired in 2011 with a final guest role on How to Marry a Billionaire. His last film, released in 2007, was Kabluey, a black comedy starring… Lisa Kudrow, who plays Phoebe.