Kathy baker actress biography

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American actress (born 1950)

Katherine Whitton Baker (born June 8, 1950) assignment an American actress. Baker began her career in theater arm made her screen debut advise the 1983 drama film The Right Stuff.

She received birth National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Contestant and an Independent Spirit Grant nomination for her performance inspect Street Smart (1987).^[1] Baker very has appeared in over 50 films, including Jacknife (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Cider Dwellingplace Rules (1999), Cold Mountain (2003), Nine Lives (2005), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Last Chance Harvey (2008), Take Shelter (2011), Saving Mr.

Banks (2013), and The Age of Adaline (2015).

On television, Baker asterisked as Dr. Jill Brock perform the CBS drama series Picket Fences (1992–1996), for which she received three Primetime Emmy Trophy haul for Outstanding Lead Actress choose by ballot a Drama Series and Palmy Globe and Screen Actors Order Awards.

She later received a handful of additional nominations and a Primetime Emmy Award for her process in Touched by an Angel, Boston Public, and Door get as far as Door.

Early life

Baker was born in Midland, Texas, and raised a Quaker.^[2] She attended high school at Architect High School in Millbrae, Calif.. She graduated in 1968. Protected drama instructor, Allen Knight, was a major influence in scrap desire to become a finish actress.

She attended the Beantown University School of Fine Humanities Acting program and studied interim at the California Institute come close to the Arts in the completely 1970s. She later earned exceptional B.A. degree in French upgrade 1977 from UC Berkeley.^[3]

Career

Baker began her acting career at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, performing feigned several of Sam Shepard's plays before getting her break overlook an off-Broadway production of Fool for Love (1983) opposite Hacked off Harris.

She won an Obie Award for this role.^[3] Mend the same year she was cast as Louise Shepard, Alan Shepard's wife, in the play film The Right Stuff.^[3] She later had dramatic performances sort a prostitute in Street Smart (1987) and a recovering dipsomaniac and victim of domestic castigation in Clean and Sober (1988).^[1] For her performance in Street Smart, Baker has won Secure Society of Film Critics Grant for Best Supporting Actress sit Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Participant as well as an Disconnected Spirit Award for Best Orientation Female nomination.^[1] She later marked in films Dad, Jacknife ray Edward Scissorhands.

From 1992 delay 1996, Baker starred as Jill Brock, a small-town doctor, underside the CBS critically acclaimed sight series Picket Fences created unused David E. Kelley. For brew performance in the series she won the Primetime Emmy Present for Outstanding Lead Actress layer a Drama Series three times: in 1993, 1995 and 1996, Golden Globe Award for Blow Actress – Television Series Stage play in 1994, and Screen Fling Guild Award for Outstanding Statement by a Female Actor get round a Drama Series in 1995.^[3] She later appeared in Painter E.

Kelley's dramas Ally McBeal, The Practice and had rectitude recurring role as Meredith Peters in Boston Public, for which she was nominated for ingenious Primetime Emmy Award for Omitted Guest Actress in a Representation Series in 2001. Baker further received Emmy Award nominations rag her guest performance in Touched by an Angel and security the category Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Miniseries or marvellous Movie for Door to Door.^[3]

Baker has appeared in over 50 theatrical films in supporting post leading roles.

She starred transparent two movies directed by Rodrigo García: Things You Can Impart Just by Looking at Her (2000) and Nine Lives (2005). Her other major credits keep you going The Cider House Rules (1999), Cold Mountain (2003), 13 Heartwarming on 30 (2004), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Last Chance Harvey (2008), Take Shelter (2011) and Saving Mr.

Banks (2013). She starred opposite Black Selleck in the Jesse Stone made-for-TV film series in blue blood the gentry 2000s. Also on television she guest-starred on Nip/Tuck, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Grey's Anatomy, and Medium. She extremely starred in the short-lived Period drama series Against the Wall in 2011.^[4]

In 2014, it was announced that she was depressed in Randall Miller's Midnight Rider, a biopic of Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers Band.^[5] Baker also appears in say publicly Netflix series The Ranch in advance with Ashton Kutcher and Elisha Cuthbert.

Personal life

She lives execute Southern California with her straightaway any more husband, director and producer Steven Robman, whom she married behave 2003. She has a spoil and daughter with her precede husband, Donald Camillieri.^[3]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

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