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Teri Polo
1 June 1969
Teri Polo played in 11 movies in the Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Comedy, Sport, War, Adventure, Music, Horror, Action, Sci-Fi genres.
Teri Polo got succeed with average imdb rating 5.8.
After toiling as regards a decade in depressed-grade films and a manageress of TV shows, Teri Polo definitively earned a helping of recognition, topped off with a dollop of pivotal recognition, concerning her portrayal of Ben Stiller's would-be fianc??e in Jay Roach's 2000 autumn blockbuster Meet the Parents. The casting of Polo as the daughter of ??ber-WASP suburban gentry (Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner) capitalized on her Pepsident-blond, all-American looks, and the film's success
... effectively provided the actress with the exposure that would suffer her to move beyond the confines of weeknight television spots.
The daughter of a stereo systems designer and a homemaker, Polo was born in Dover, DE, and raised there in the company of two older brothers. A ballet student from the age of five, she burnt- most of her childhood and adolescence in a social studio, but after being rejected by a performing arts college at 17, Polo re-evaluated what she wanted to do with her life; her successive win in a Seventeen munitions dump modeling contest led to her decision to drop broken of approach and pursue an acting pursuit in New York.
Roles on TV shows ranging from the ABC soap opera Loving to Northern Exposure followed, as did starring travail as the argue against of Ethan Hawke's affections in the thankless, simple English-to-video comedy Mystery Era (1991). After moving to Los Angeles in 1995 to better pursue her career, Polo found more work on television, guest-starring on such shows as Felicity and Sports Night. With Meet the Parents in 2000, the actress' years of hard engender seemed finally to be struck by paid off, as she enjoyed mention in the national media and a crop of studio offers.
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