Her role on Desperate Housewives earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as a Primetime Emmy nomination. Hatcher got her career start in the entertainment industry as a cheerleader for the football team the San Francisco 49ers in 1984.Next up was a role as a mermaid dancer on the popular television show The Love Boat. This led to a recurring role on the action-adventure series MacGyver, starring Richard Dean Anderson. She made her film debut in The Big Picture (1989) directed by Christopher Guest and continued making movies and television appearances, most notably in Soapdish (1991) with Kevin Kline and Sally Field.
In addition to acting, Teri Hatcher published her first book in 2006, entitled Burnt Toast and Other Philosophies of Life, in which she shared much of what she has learned about life and love with her readers. Hatcher is an active supporter of several charities, including the Make a Wish Foundation. Teri Hatcher has been married twice and has a daughter, Emerson, with her second husband, actor Jon Tenney. The couple divorced in 2003.
