Michael Keaton honors Teri Garr with heartbreaking post as he leads celeb tributes after her death at 79

Michael Keaton paid tribute to Teri Garr with a heartbreaking message following her death at the age of 79.

The veteran actress passed away on Tuesday in Los Angeles after a long battle with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Keaton, 73, starred opposite Garr in the comedy Mr. Mom from 1983, and the actor shared a photo of the film’s poster while praising her as someone who was “not only great to work with, but great to be around.”

“This is a day I feared and knew would come,” he captioned his Instagram post. “Forget how great she was as an actress and comedian. she was a wonderful woman. not only great to work with, but also great to be around. AND go back and check out her comedic work – Man, was she awesome!! RIP girl.”

Numerous other stars took to social media to pay tribute to Garr following news of her death.

Director Paul Feig, who worked with Garr on the 2006 film Unaccompanied Minors, praised her as one of his “comedy heroes.”

“Oh man, this is devastating. Teri was a legend. So funny, so beautiful, so kind. I had the honor of working with her in 2006 and she was everything I dreamed she would be,” he tweeted.

‘Truly one of my comedy heroes. I couldn’t have loved her more. This is such a loss.”

Patton Oswalt shared a video of her dancing with Toni Basil on the TAMI Show as he paid his respects.

‘RIP Teri Garr. Here she is, 17 years old, dancing with Toni Basil on the TAMI Show,” he tweeted.

Jennifer Tilly, Garr’s co-star in Let It Ride, also honored the late star on X.

‘Rip Teri Garr, a brilliant comedic actress. There was no one like her: she had the ability to be over-the-top and extremely relatable at the same time,” she tweeted, along with a clip from their scene in Let It Ride.

Jon Cryer listed his ‘top three’ favorite Garr films as he urged fans to ‘treat’ themselves to the films.

‘My top three Teri Garr films: Oh God!, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Tootsie. Treat yourself. #RIPTeriGarr.”

Andy Cohen tweeted: “I loved Teri Garr, first as an actress, but I really fell in love with her and David Letterman. What chemistry and hilarity! she was a unique, brilliant person.”

Garr – nominated for an Oscar for her role in Tootsie – died at the age of 79 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis (MS).

She is also known for her roles in Young Frankenstein, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and as Phoebe’s mother in the iconic sitcom Friends.

In 2002, the talented star had revealed that she had been diagnosed with a chronic disease that damages the central nervous system (CNS). Years later, she suffered an aneurysm in 2006.

Having nearly 160 credits to her name, starring in influential television shows and films from the 1970s to the 1990s, she was an influential performer to many, including SNL legend Tina Fey.

The highlight of her career came in 1983 when she was nominated in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role category for her role as Sandy Lester in Tootsie.

She ultimately lost to castmate Jessica Lange from the same film who was the Loan winner out of ten nominations that year.

Her most famous television role came when she played the role of Phoebe Abbott in three episodes of the iconic sitcom Friends from 1997 to 1998.

In the episode The One At The Beach, her character reveals to Lisa Kudrow’s character Phoebe Buffay that she is her biological mother.

Teri had returned to the role in two other episodes, entitled The One With Jellyfish and The One With Phoebe’s Uniform.

Another of her iconic roles was as Ronnie Neary in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters Of The Third Kind in 1977.

She portrayed the wife of Richard Dreyfuss’ character Roy when the film won the 1978 Oscar for Best Cinematography for Vilmos Zsigmond.

Her breakthrough role, however, was as the challenging assistant Inga in the 1974 Mel Brooks classic Young Frankenstein, where she played opposite Gene Wilder.