- Born
- Birth nameTheresa Elizabeth Polo
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Teri Polo was born in Dover, Delaware, to Jane (Gentry) and Vincent Polo, a stereo systems designer. Her ancestry includes Italian (from her paternal grandfather), German, and English. She has two brothers, Mike and Steve. Polo studied ballet for twelve years and was a dancer for the Delaware Regional Ballet at age 15. She dropped out of high school at 16 because she won a local modeling contest for a blue jeans advert in Seventeen magazine. Polo tried her hand at modeling, and was signed to Elite petite division.
- IMDb mini biography by: Charles Hoeft
- SpouseAnthony Moore(April 20, 1997 - April 19, 2005) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenGriffin MooreBayley Wollam
- ParentsJane Polo (Gentry)Vincent Polo
- RelativesMike Polo(Sibling)Steve Polo(Sibling)
- Posed in the February 2005 issue of Playboy.
- In April 2014, Polo had to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy, declaring less than $50,000 in asset after owing 3/4 million in back taxes and debts in excess of $800,000.
- A straight A student at Holy Cross Elementary School in Dover, Delaware, where she grew up, studied Ballet from ages 6 to 17, signed by the Petite modeling agency at age 17 and dropped out of high school, where she had been an honors student, at age 17 to move to New York City to pursue acting.
- In 2009, she took a substantial loss ($550,000) selling her five-bedroom, 3,077-square-foot, Asian-inspired house in Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles County, California for $1.95 million. She originally paid $2.5 million for it in 2006. She, her two children, and their three dogs, relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Gave birth to her first child, a boy named Griffin (born summer 2002).
- I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.
- In Hollywood, most things are based on looks, so I'd love to do something that has nothing to do with how I look.
- I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.
- There's something to be said for making out. Actually, I think we should go back to the days of a little bit more hair downstairs and more making out.
- [on posing for Playboy] It was one of the best experiences of my life. I'm very proud. We shouldn't be ashamed of the human body. The human body is beautiful, and it's a shame we put such a taboo on certain things. Why be ashamed? It's such a beautiful thing.
- The Fosters (2013) - $25,000 per episode
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