'''Teri Lynn Hatcher''' (born December 8, 1964) 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.
Biography
Early life
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.
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, California 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.http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-hatcher8_mar08,1,1711192.story?coll=la-headlines-entnews
In an interview appearing in Vanity Fair magazine, Hatcher said she told prosecutors about her abuse in 2002 because she was haunted by thoughts of the 14-year-old girl who shot herself, and feared her uncle might escape conviction.
Career
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.
She also had a guest appearance in an episode of ''Seinfeld'', in which her character, Sidra, broke up with Jerry because she
