I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

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.