page_title: List of Friends and Joey characters
section_title: Phoebe Abbott
hierarchical_section_title: List of Friends and Joey characters / Characters recurring throughout series / Introduced in season 3 / Phoebe Abbott
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context_page_description: Various characters appeared in the sitcoms Friends and Joey, which respectively aired for ten and two seasons on NBC from 1994 to 2006. Friends featured six main cast members: Rachel Green, Monica Geller, Phoebe Buffay, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing, and Ross Geller, while Joey featured LeBlanc in the title role reprising his role as Tribbiani alongside Gina Tribbiani, Alex Garrett, Michael Tribbiani, Bobbie Morganstern, Zach Miller and Howard. Many celebrities guest-starred on both series throughout their twelve-year run.
context_section_description: Phoebe Abbott (Teri Garr): Phoebe's birth mother. Phoebe tracks her down in "The One at the Beach", believing her to be a friend of Lily's. She reveals her parentage at the end of the episode and makes amends with Phoebe in "The One with the Jellyfish". Later, when Phoebe wants to be a surrogate mother for Frank and Alice's child, she lends Phoebe her puppy to demonstrate how difficult it is to give up children after carrying them.
caption: Teri Garr played Phoebe's birth mother, Phoebe Abbott, in three episodes of Seasons 3 and 4
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