Age: 65
female
Terri Garber is an American television and film actress, best known for her role as Ashton Main, Southern Belle vixen, in the three-part 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 Actor's 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 guest-starred 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.
Terri Garber
Judge Kessler's Widow
for Judge Kessler's Widow in Nexus — The Fall
Suggested by mr95
Vera's empire doesn't fall suddenly. It disintegrates. Adrian, under Sarah's pressure, begins to provide testimony. Maya, realizing that Vera would sacrifice her, fully defects. The judge, exhausted by fifteen years of blackmail, dies by suicide — leaving a note that implicates Vera in his coercion. The leverage that held Vera's network together for two decades unravels in weeks. But the real catastrophe is Cassandra Oakes, whose agenda finally becomes clear: Cassandra is not trying to destroy Vera. She is trying to rebuild Nexus in her image, with Vera as a tool rather than an architect. Vera finds herself trapped between Sarah's investigation and Cassandra's attempt at hostile takeover. In the season's most shocking moment, Vera offers to cooperate with Sarah in exchange for protection from Cassandra — a devil's bargain that forces Sarah to confront her own moral lines. By season end, Nexus is closed, Vera is in protective custody, and Cassandra has walked away with the client list — a treasure that makes her the most dangerous person in the city. Vera and Sarah are no longer enemies. They are no longer quite allies either.
