Teri Hatcher Highest Paid Actress on Television

Born on 8th December, 1964 Teri Hatcher is a author and an American actress. Teri is the daughter of a computer programmer Mr Eshur and Owen Hatcher, who is a nuclear physicist. Early years of her life were spent in Sunnyvale in California where she attended Fermont High School and later De Anza College in Cupertino.

Teri Hatcher always wanted a performing career, and in order to pursue her ambition she started taking ballet lessons from a very young age. In the later years she also took up lessons in acting. She took up her early jobs in the year 1985, when she was a cheerleader. It was at the same time that she was seen in a show known as Mermaids. Many years later in the year 1993, she landed her first role in Lois and Clark. This was a major stepping stone in her career when she was noticed by different producers.
Teri Hatcher is a versatile actress and has a number of award winning performances to her credit. Some of her popular films are the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies, Dead In the Water. 2 Days in the Valley'. Two films namely The Cool Surface and Heavens Prisoners, had nude scenes but were not a box office hit.
In her career she appeared in many shows on small screen too. In the year 1996 she hosted the Saturday Night Live Show. The role of a single mother in Desperate Housewives won her the Best Actress in a musical or the Golden Globe Award in January 2005.Teri Hatcher also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for the same category in the same year. She was also nominated for the Emmy Award as the Best Actress in a Comedy Series, in the same year.
In the year 2006, Teri Hatcher was the highest paid actress of television in the United States. It is a well known fact that she earns $2 85000 per episode from the series Desperate Housewives. She is not only successful as an actress but also a famous author. It was in May 2006 that her first book was released. Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life is the popular book penned by her.She is also known to have launched a line of apparel and also merchandise.

As in the case of all celebrities, Teri Hatchers personal life was always in limelight. It was known that from 1985 to 1988 she has a relation with her costar Richard Dean Anderson. However on June 4, 1988 she married Marcus Leithold, which lasted for a year. In 1994 she married actor Jon Tenney, but divorced again in 2004.She is at present dating Stephen Kay, who was noticed in the movie General Hospital. Teri Hatcher