Terri Garber is an American television and film actress, best known for her role as Ashton Main, Southern Belle vixen, in the three-part miniseries, North and South (North & South: Book 1, North & South (1985), North & South: Book 2, Love & War (1986), and North & South: Book 3, Heaven & Hell (1994)). Garber grew up in Miami, Florida, the youngest of three children. Their father was a lawyer, and their mother owned a cooking school. Garber began acting in professional theater at the age of 16 at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami. She booked a commercial that made her a member of the Screen Actor's Guild (SAG) and decided to move to New York to pursue television, film, and theater. Once in New York, she landed her first big role in the 1982 television series Texas (1980), which launched her career. She moved to Los Angeles to do series pilots, and booked "North and South". After "North and South", she worked on many other daytime and nighttime soaps, including Dynasty, Santa Barbara, General Hospital, and As the World Turns. She also guest-starred in many drama series and feature films. Garber married her high school drama teacher, William Roudebush, in 2013. Her daughter Molly Hager, by her first husband Chris Hager, is a successful Broadway actress.

Filmography

• 2021Magic in Mount Holly — Janice
• 2019Garrow
• 2014Snakehead Swamp — Carley
• Old Dogs & New Tricks — Dr. Leslie Ashley
• 2005Adam and Eve — Eve's Mom
• Cold Case — Abbey Lake (2004)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Mrs. Becker
• Family Law — 40-Year-Old Woman
• Judging Amy — Toni Eggers
• 7th Heaven — Nancy Burns
• Bless This House
• Charlie Grace — Ruby O'Conner
• ER — Dr. Alexander
• Renegade
• 1990Beyond My Reach — Terri Neilson
• Law & Order — Amanda Carroll
• Shades of L.A.
• Quantum Leap — Teresa Pacci
• Jake and the Fatman
• Matlock — Valerie Walsh
• 1985Key Exchange — Amy
• North and South — Ashton Main Fenway, Ashton Main Huntoon
• The Twilight Zone
• Murder, She Wrote — Loretta Lee
• Santa Barbara — Suzanne Collier
• 1984Toy Soldiers — Amy
• Mr. Smith — Dr. Judy Tyson
• Dynasty — Leslie Carrington
• Texas — Allison Linden #2
• As the World Turns — Iris Dumbrowski

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Wetten, dass..? — Self