| Teri Lynn Hatcher is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and author. She gained attention for her role as Lois Lane in the television series Lois and 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. Born in Sunnyvale, California, her father is an electrical engineer and her mother 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.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 Love Boat in its final season. While probably most noted for playing Lois Lane in the TV series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Hatcher has also appeared in such feature films as Spy Kids (2001), the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, Dead in the Water (1991), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), and Heaven's Prisoners (1996). Hatcher has also made a guest appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation and had a recurring role in MacGyver, playing his friend Penny Parker.
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