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‘Friends’ and ‘Close Encounters Of The Third Kind’ star Teri Garr has died, aged 79

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Variety, the Academy Award-nominated actor died on Tuesday (October 29) following a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis.

Garr revealed her diagnosis in 2002, and four years later suffered an aneurysm.Garr enjoyed a lengthy career in acting, with over 140 credits to her name across nearly five decades; she officially retired from acting in 2011 – just two years short of her 50th anniversary in the industry.Garr appeared in three episodes of Friends, where she played Phoebe Abbott, the mother of Lisa Kudrow’s Phoebe Buffay.

Kudrow remembered Garr in a statement to PEOPLE: “Teri Garr was a comedic acting genius who was and is a huge influence on me and I know I’m not alone in that.

I feel so lucky and grateful I got to work with Teri Garr.”After a number of small roles in film and TV, Garr was first noticed in an episode of Star Trek in 1968.

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