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Teal Sherer, an actress, wife and mother, has come a long way from her family’s log home in rural Tennessee. Going on to be a successful actress in Hollywood and a sensation in the sci-fi community, her ability to both entertain and educate is like no other. Read on for story.
Why She’s Fearless
In 1994 at the age of 14, Teal broke her back while riding in a car to Labor Day fireworks show. Suddenly finding herself disabled, Teal searched for a new passion post-injury, and she soon discovered acting after heading off to college. While at Oglethorpe University, she performed in plays such as The House of Bernarda Alba and Antigone
While in college in 2005, Teal was cast in HBO’s Warm Springs, a film about the life of FDR playing a young woman with polio. After college, she moved to LA to pursue her dreams of acting. She was in two national commercials – a Liberty Mutual insurance commercial and a commercial encouraging people to get out and vote.
Teal also developed a huge online following when she played the villain “Venom” in the web series hit, The Guild, in 2009. This is her favorite role to-date. And in 2012, she received the greenlight to produce her series, My Gimpy Life, a comedy series she wrote showing all the funny things that happens to an actress in a wheelchair in LA.
The year of 2012 was in fact a really good year for Teal. She also married her longtime boyfriend Ali the same year in an intimate ceremony in Los Angeles. Three years later, in 2015, they went on to have their son River.
Teal went on to be cast in other roles after arriving in LA as well. She produced and starred in the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play Proof, playing the lead “Catherine.” She was also in Transients and was a series regular on the NBC Universal pilot, I’m with stupid. In 2012, she was in the TV series Geek Therapy, in 2013 she was in the short Dystopia, and in 2015, she was in three episodes of Survivors Remorse.
And in 2013, she won “Best Female Comedy Performance” at the International Academy of Web Television Awards for My Gimpy Life.
What’s Next?
After spending several years in Los Angeles, Teal, Ali and their son decided to move to Bellevue, Washington. Since moving, Teal joined the Board of Directors for the Seattle Public Theatre and is the Social Media Manager for New Mobility Magazine. Do not think she has left acting behind however. She continues to act, and auditions for roles from her home in Seattle.
In 2019, she was in an episode of NCIS: New Orleans as well as the film Significant Other, a sci-fi thriller, in 2022. She was also in the movies Showing Up, The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg and Waiting for the Sun. Teal is a member of the SAG Performers with Disabilities Committee. She was also a dancer in the Full Radius Dance, a mixed-ability dance company based in Atlanta, for several years.
— Official site of Teal Sherer
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