Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an American actress who is best known for her roles as
Lois Lane in
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, as
Susan Mayer in
Desperate Housewives and as
Paris Carver in the
James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. She won the
Golden Globe Award for
Best Actress for her role as
Susan Mayer on the television series
Desperate Housewives in
2005. In the same year she won the
Screen Actor's Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actress in a Comedy Series and was also nominated for the
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, but lost out to fellow cast member and close friend,
Felicity Huffman.
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 is of
Welsh and
Choctaw Native American descent, and her mother is of half
Lebanese and half
French/
German descent.
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. As an undergraduate she studied mathematics and engineering.
