Terri Garber

Terri Leslie Garber (born December 28, 1960) is an American actress and entrepreneur.

Career Garber's acting debut was as Allison Linden on the daytime soap opera Texas in 1982. Her first feature film role in the 1984 action film Toy Soldiers.

Garber's breakout role was wicked Southern belle Ashton Main in the 1985 ABC miniseries North and South, based on the 1982 novel of the same name by John Jakes. As of 2002, it was still ranked among the ten highest rated miniseries in TV history. Garber reprised the role for the 1986 sequel miniseries, North and South: Book II, as well as for the 1994 final installment, Heaven and Hell: North and South Book III. In 1987, she described Ashton:[Ashton was] the meanest of the mean, but she did it all with a smile so you couldn't really hate her. She was fun. She slept with seven West Point men, one after another, and was in on a plot to assassinate Jefferson Davis. People still come up to me in airports and comment on that, laughing—about the West Pointers, not about trying to kill Davis. She appeared alone on the cover of TV Guide for the September 5, 1987 issue (#1797), which included an interview with her. She later won a 2013 Indie Soap Award for Best Guest Appearance in a Drama for the performance.

In 2013, Garber played a therapist on the web series Old Dogs & New Tricks (Season 2, Episode 10: "Last Gasps").

Personal life Garber grew up in Miami, the youngest of three children of a lawyer father and a cooking-school owner mother.

Filmography

Film

Television