Teri Polo is an American actress best known for her role as Stef Adams Foster in the ABC Family/Freeform drama series The Fosters. She plays the matriarch of a multi-ethnic family, which includes her wife Lena Adams Foster, their children, and their foster children. Teri has also appeared in films such as Meet the Parents, its sequels Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers, and The Wedding Planner.