Terri Hanauer

Terri Hanauer is a Canadian-American actress who also works as a director, screenwriter and photographer. Born in Toronto and raised in Canada, she studied theater arts at New York University and went on to act on both sides of the border. Her first film role came in David Cronenberg's Rabid (1977), when she was billed as Terry Schonblum, and in 1981 she adopted the name Hanauer for the television production Scruples. Roles in television films and series followed, among them Matlock, Beauty and the Beast, Beggars and Choosers and Havoc (2005), along with stage work in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. at venues such as the Mark Taper Forum and Arena Stage. She later turned to directing and writing, penning the comic play La Ronde De Lunch, and has won six LA Stage Scene Awards, among them Best Director of a Comedy. As a professional photographer she has shot more than a hundred actors.