Dustin Hoffman RemembersTootsieCostar Teri Garr After Her Death: 'There Was No One Like Her'

Mar. 15, 2025

Dustin Hoffman and Teri Garr in Beverly Hills, California, on Feb. 17, 2002.Photo:Kevin Winter/ImageDirect./Getty

Kevin Winter/ImageDirect./Getty

Dustin Hoffmanis remembering his late costarTeri Garr.

In a statement to theNew York Postpublished Tuesday, Oct. 29, the 87-year-old actor paid his respects to hisTootsiecostar, whodied on Tuesday at the age of 79.

“Teri was brilliant and singular in all she did, and had a heart of gold,” Hoffman said in his statement to the outlet. “Working with her was one of the great highs."

“There was no one like her,” he added.

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Teri Garr and Dustin Hoffman in New York City.Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty

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The actress was known for her roles of Inga in 1974’sYoung Frankensteinand Sandy Lester in 1982’sTootsiealongside Hoffman’s Michael Dorsey.

Garr received a Best Supporting ActressOscarnomination for her work inTootsie. The romantic comedy laterinspired a stage musical, which hit Broadway in 2019.

Santino Fontanatook over the role of Michael on the Great White Way, whileLilli Cooperplayed Julie and Sarah Stiles played Garr’s movie role of Sandy.

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Teri Garr and Dustin Hoffman inTootsie(1982).Columbia Pictures/Getty

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Speaking about her Academy Award nod in her 2005 memoirSpeedbumps: Flooring it Through Hollywood, Garr wrote, per theNew York Post, “I was proud. The Academy not only knew I existed, they thought I was good!”

She also previously spoke about how her mother, Phyllis Lind Garr, helped secure her role as the assistant of Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) inYoung Frankenstein.

“My mother was the wardrobe woman onYoung Frankenstein,” the actress toldPBSin 2012. “I asked her if they’d finished casting, and she said she didn’t know.”

Garr asked her agent to get her an audition, and after four rounds of auditions, she was cast. “It was unbelievable," she said.

source: people.com