Teri Lynn Hatcher (born
December 8 1964) is an
American actress. She portrayed
Lois Lane in the television series
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. She is also a
Bond Girl, having played
Paris Carver in
Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997. She won the
Golden Globe Award for
Best Actress for her role as
Susan Mayer on the television series
Desperate Housewives in 2005.
Early life
Hatcher was born in
Palo Alto, California, the daughter of Esther (
née Beshur), a computer programmer who worked for
Lockheed Martin, and Owen W. Hatcher, a nuclear physicist and electrical engineer.
Hatcher's father was of
Welsh and distant
Choctaw Native American descent, and her mother had
French,
German, and
Lebanese ancestry.
Hatcher grew up in
Sunnyvale, California.
An
only child, she attended Mango Junior High (now
Sunnyvale Middle School),
Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and
De Anza College in
Cupertino.
