Teri Polo, Meet the Parents Star, Files for Bankruptcy: Report

Teri Polo is perhaps best known to moviegoers as Pam Focker — second grade teacher and wife of Ben Stiller's male nurse alter ego in the Meet the Parents film trilogy. But to the good folks at the Internal Revenue Service 

Actress Teri Polo, best known for her role as Ben Stiller's wife in the film trilogy that also includes "Meet the Fockers" and "Little Fockers," filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Los Angeles last week. Polo, 44, currently stars as one of the moms in

In addition, Polo – who's currently starring in The Fosters – is being sued by her landlord for $30,000 after she allegedly moved out of a rental apartment in Los Angeles, leaving the carpets ruined by dog feces and urine, and letting food rot in the

Teri Polo is bankrupt. Polo, 44, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week, stating that she owes nearly a million dollars in debt. According to celebrity website TMZ, the "Meet the Parents" star is in the hole to the tune of 

Actress and pageant judge Teri Polo appears during a news conference after the 2012 Miss America Pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino January 14, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller, Getty Images). Actress Teri Polo has, perhaps best