Oscar nominated Friends star Teri Garr dies aged 79 after acclaimed career

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Oscar-nominated actor Teri Garr who was best known for her roles in Friends and Young Frankenstein has passed away, aged 79.Teri had a decades-long acting career, well recognised for her parts in films such as Tootsie (1982) and her role as Phoebe Abbott, the biological mother of Phoebe Buffay (played by Lisa Kudrow) on the sitcom Friends.Variety reports that the late actor passed away in Los Angeles this week.

The announcement has sparked an outpouring of tributes, with fans recalling Teri's roles from her on-screen career, which began in the 1960s.Her career includes a role in Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974).

That year, she played Inga, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein's (Gene Wilder) assistant, in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein (1974). She went on to play Ronnie Neary, the wife of the lead character Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss), in Steven Spielberg's 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, reports the Mirror.Her most prominent credits include playing Sandy Lester in Tootsie (1982), which co-starred Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange.

Her performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, that co-star Jessica won.Teri's filmography includes After Hours (1985), Dumb and Dumber (1994), and Kabluey (2007), the latter of which reunited her with her previous on-screen daughter Lisa.