Kathy Baker
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 Kathy Baker at the 45th Emmy Awards, Image by Alan Light, September 1993 |
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| Born | Katherine Whitton Baker June 8, 1950 Midland, Texas, United States |
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Katherine Whitton Baker (born June 8, 1950) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning American character actress.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Baker was born in Midland, Texas, the daughter of French-born Helene Andree "Lany" (née Whitton) and John Seawand Baker, who was a geologist and educator.[1] She was raised a Quaker.[2] She studied acting at the California Institute of the Arts in the early seventies. She later earned a B.A. degree in French in 1977 from UC Berkeley. Baker lives in southern California with her husband, Steven Robman.
[edit] Career
Baker has appeared in numerous films including Edward Scissorhands, The Right Stuff, Street Smart, Jacknife and Cold Mountain. As a small-town doctor in the David E. Kelley television series Picket Fences she won Emmy awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series three times in the show's four-year run (1993, 1995 and 1996).
Baker began her career at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, performing in several of Sam Shepard's plays before getting her break in an off-Broadway production of Fool for Love opposite Ed Harris. Her recent projects include the 2006 remake of All the King's Men and 2007's The Jane Austen Book Club.
[edit] Filmography
- Last Chance Harvey (2008)
- The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
- Law & Order: SVU (2007)
- Gilmore Girls (2007)
- All the King's Men (2006)
- Nip/Tuck (2005)
- Spring Break Shark Attack (2005) (TV)
- Medium (TV series) (2005, 2008)
- Nine Lives (2005)
- 13 Going on 30 (2004)
- Cold Mountain (2003)
- Assassination Tango (2002)
- Door to Door (2002)
- The Glass House (2001)
- Ten Tiny Love Stories (2001)
- Boston Public (2000) (TV series) (2001 – 2002)
- Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
- Ratz (2000)
- The Cider House Rules (1999)
- Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
- To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)
- Picket Fences (1992) (TV series)
- Edward Scissorhands (1990)
- Mister Frost (1990)
- Jacknife (1989)
- Clean and Sober (1988)
- Street Smart (1987)
- A Killing Affair (1986)
- The Right Stuff (1983)
- Jennifer Eight (1992)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Kathy Baker at the Internet Movie Database
- Kathy Baker at Allmovie
- Kathy Baker 2003 Interview on Sidewalks Entertainment
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