Kathy Baker

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Kathy Baker
Baker at the 45th Emmy Awards, Image by Alan Light, September 1993
Born	Katherine Whitton Baker June 8, 1950 (1950-06-08) (age 58) Midland, Texas, United States
Awards won Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series 1993, 1995, 1996 Picket Fences Golden Globe Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama 1994 Picket Fences Screen Actors Guild Awards Best Actress - Drama Series 1994 Picket Fences

Katherine Whitton "Kathy" Baker (born June 8, 1950) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning American character actress.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Personal life 1.2 Career 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

[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)
• Problem Child 2 (1991)

[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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