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Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and author. Not to be confused with actress Teri Weigel.

She’s 42!

She gained attention for her role as Lois Lane in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman co-starring with Dean Cain. (In the mid-1990s, a publicity photo of Hatcher wearing Superman’s cape became the most downloaded image on America Online.) Hatcher has achieved her greatest fame to date starring in the show Desperate Housewives, as Susan Mayer, a charming, accident-prone divorcée.

Teri was born to parents Owen and Esther Hatcher in the San Jose suburb of Sunnyvale, CA. Her father is an electrical engineer and her mother is a computer scientist. An only child, she attended Mango Junior High (now Sunnyvale Middle School), Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and De Anza College in Cupertino.

In March 2006, Hatcher revealed to Vanity Fair that she was sexually abused from the age of 5 by her then uncle, Richard Hayes Stone (who was later divorced by Hatcher’s aunt). Her parents, she said, were unaware of the abuse at the time. In 2002, she assisted Santa Clara County prosecutors in indicting Stone for a more recent molestation that led his female victim to commit suicide at the age of 14. Stone pleaded guilty to four counts of molestation and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. In an interview appearing in Vanity Fair magazine, Hatcher said she told the prosecutors about her own abuse because she was haunted by thoughts of the 14-year-old girl who shot herself, and feared her uncle might escape conviction.

Hatcher began her performing career as a young girl taking ballet lessons at the San Juan Girls’ Ballet Studio in downtown Los Altos, California. She later studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater. One of her early jobs (in 1984) was as a cheerleader with the San Francisco 49ers. During this time she also appeared as one of the mermaids on the show The Love Boat in its final season.

In 1988, Hatcher married Marcus Leithold, but they were divorced the following year. In 1994, she married actor Jon Tenney; they had a daughter, Emerson Rose, in November 1997, and divorced in March 2003. (She was reportedly forced to give Tenney half of her savings in the settlement).

It is said she also dated MacGyver and Stargate SG-1 star Richard Dean Anderson.

In January 2006, it was reported that Hatcher was romantically involved with actor George Clooney, but Hatcher said the two went out on only one date. She was recently quoted as saying that being sexually molested at such a young age has affected her relationships with men, and that she hopes to have healthier relationships in the future.

In March 2006, she was photographed kissing American Idol host Ryan Seacrest, but told Access Hollywood that she was “not attached” and said “Well, I guess what’s caught on film is caught on film, and it would be hard for me to stand here and say that it wasn’t, you know me.” Hatcher later said on The Oprah Winfrey Show that she and Seacrest went out on three dates, but Seacrest didn’t want to continue dating.

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