Editing Teri Hatcher (section)

==Early life==
Hatcher was born on December 8, 1964, in [[Palo Alto, California]], the only child of Esther Beshur, a [[computer programmer]] who worked for [[Lockheed Martin]] and Owen Walker Hatcher Jr., a [[Nuclear physics|nuclear physicist]] and [[Electrical engineering|electrical engineer]].<ref name="actors">{{cite episode|title=Teri Hatcher|series=Inside the Actors Studio|series-link=Inside the Actors Studio}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Notable-Alumni/Teri-Hatcher|title=Notable Alumni, Teri Hatcher|website=California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office|access-date=2022-10-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406151151/https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Notable-Alumni/Teri-Hatcher |archive-date=April 6, 2020}}</ref> Her father is of Welsh ancestry, while her mother is of French, German and Syrian ancestry.<ref>{{cite episode|title=Teri Hatcher|series=Inside the Actors Studio|series-link=Inside the Actors Studio|quote=My mom is French, German, Syrian and my dad is Welsh, American Indian.}}</ref>

Hatcher took [[ballet]] lessons at the San Juan School of Dance in [[Los Altos, California|Los Altos]] and grew up in [[Sunnyvale, California]].<ref name="actors"/> At [[De Anza College]] she studied mathematics and engineering.<ref name=":0"/>

In March 2006, she alleged that she was [[child sexual abuse|sexually abused]] from the age of five by Richard Hayes Stone, an uncle by marriage who was later divorced by Hatcher's aunt. She said her parents were unaware of the abuse.<ref name="vanity">{{cite journal| first=Leslie|last=Bennetts|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/04/hatcher200604| title=Teri Hatcher's Desperate Hour|journal=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |publisher=[[Condé Nast]] |location=New York City|date=April 2006|access-date=February 22, 2008}}</ref> In 2002, she assisted [[Santa Clara County, California|Santa Clara County]] prosecutors with their indictment of Stone for a more recent sexual offense that led his female victim to commit suicide at 14.<ref name="actors"/><ref name="vanity"/> Stone pleaded guilty to four counts of child sexual abuse and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4784900.stm |work=[[BBC News]] | title=Hatcher reveals child abuse past | date=March 8, 2006 | access-date=May 25, 2010}}</ref> Hatcher said she told the prosecutors about her own abuse because she was haunted by thoughts of the 14-year-old girl who shot herself, and feared Stone might escape conviction. Stone died of [[colon cancer]] on August 19, 2008, after serving six years of his sentence.<ref>{{cite news | first=Sean | last=Webby | title=Child molester who Teri Hatcher helped put in prison dies of colon cancer | url=http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10265429?source=most_viewed | website=[[Mercury News]] | date=August 21, 2008 | access-date=August 21, 2008}}</ref>