The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories.

Her father is of Welsh descent (Hatcher has said that he also has Choctaw ancestry) and her mother is of half Syrian and half German-Irish ancestry. Hatcher also appeared in the 2009 hit film Coraline. Hatcher was three months pregnant at the filming's start by her then husband Jon Tenney.

She is known for her television roles as Susan Mayer on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives and Lois Lane on the ABC comedy-drama series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. For her work on Desperate Housewives Teri Hatcher won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and three Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as a Primetime Emmy nomination.