Terri Leslie Garber (born December 28, 1960) is an American actress and entrepreneur.

Career

Garber's acting debut was as Allison Linden on the daytime

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'' in 1982. Her first feature film role in the 1984 action film ''

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''. Garber's breakout role was wicked

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Ashton Main in the 1985

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'' North and South'', based on the 1982 novel of the same name by

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. As of 2002, it was still ranked among the ten highest rated miniseries in TV history. Garber reprised the role for the 1986 sequel miniseries, '' North and South: Book II'', as well as for the 1994 final installment, '' Heaven and Hell: North and South Book III''. In 1987, she described Ashton: Garber portrayed the role of

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on the primetime soap ''

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'' from 1987–88. She appeared alone on the cover of ''

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'' for the September 5, 1987 issue (#1797), which included an interview with her. After ''Dynasty'', Garber made guest appearances in various series including ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', and appeared in the Australian film ''

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'' (1990). In the 1990s, she landed roles in two daytime soap operas:

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on '' Santa Barbara'' from 1991–92 and Victoria Parker on ''

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'' in 1993. Garber later portrayed the recurring role of Iris Dumbrowski on the daytime soap opera ''

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'' in 2005, returning from November 2006-10. In 2012, Garber appeared as Elizabeth Archer in the series finale of the

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'' Miss Behave''. She later won a 2013 Indie Soap Award for Best Guest Appearance in a Drama for the performance. In 2013, Garber played a therapist on the web series '' Old Dogs & New Tricks'' (Season 2, Episode 10: "Last Gasps").

Personal life

Garber grew up in Miami, the youngest of three children of a lawyer father and a cooking-school owner mother. She did some modeling from ages 4 to 13, and always wanted to be a performer. Garber told ''TV Guide'' in 1987 that she chose acting over singing because "I was too nervous to sing in front of people—it meant showing more of myself than acting. If you're on stage singing and people don't like it, that's too much rejection." She later moved to New York, where her casual drug use became what she called "a huge problem". She overcame the addiction before being cast in ''North and South''. Garber met her first husband, screenwriter Christopher "Chris" Hager, when he was working as a grip on the set of ''North and South: Book II'' in 1985. She and Hager are the parents of actress and singer Molly E. Hager (b. 1986). That union ended in divorce in 1989. Her second marriage, to Frank Michael Howson (July 21, 2001 – June 24, 2002), also ended in divorce. In 2013, Garber married director William Roudebush, her former high school drama teacher that she had once been engaged to when she was age 17. Garber and her sister Lisa Garber Rubenstein began a business handmaking all-natural soap in various scents and styles, known as SistersAlchemy.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Garber, Terri 1960 births Living people American television actresses American soap opera actresses Actresses from Miami 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses