Terri Garber

Terri Garber is an American television and film actress best known for her role as Ashton Main Southern Belle vixen in the threepart 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 Actors 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 gueststarred 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