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Kathy Baker
Baker at the 45th Emmy Awards, September 1993
Born	Katherine Whitton Baker (1950-06-08) June 8, 1950 (age 74) Midland, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1983–present
Spouse(s)	Donald Camillieri ​ ​(m. 1985⁠–⁠1999)​ Steven Robman ​(m. 2003)​

Katherine Whitton "Kathy" Baker (born June 8, 1950) is an American actress.

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). Years later she again teamed up with David E. Kelley and starred in another of his shows Boston Public as a teacher named Meredith Peters, whose personality and behavior is a little questionable.

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.

She guest-starred in the premiere episode of the eighth season of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, playing the role of an ambitious mother of a city politician with a dark family secret. She also has a recurring role in Medium as Allison DuBois's mother-in-law.

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. She was raised a Quaker. 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 was raised in New Mexico and now lives in Southern California with her husband, Steven Robman.

Filmography

• The Right Stuff (1983)
• A Killing Affair (1986)
• Street Smart (1987)
• Clean and Sober (1988)
• Dad (1989)
• Jacknife (1989)
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• Mister Frost (1990)
• Article 99 (1992)
• Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
• Jennifer Eight (1992)
• Picket Fences (1992–1996)
• Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
• To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)
• Ally McBeal (1997)
• Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
• The Cider House Rules (1999)
• A Season For Miracles (Hallmark TV Movie) (1999)
• Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
• Ratz (2000)
• Too Young To Be A Father (2002)
• The Glass House (2001)
• Ten Tiny Love Stories (2001)
• Boston Public (2001–2002)
• Assassination Tango (2002)
• Door to Door (2002)
• Cold Mountain (2003)
• 13 Going on 30 (2004)
• Nip/Tuck (2005)
• Spring Break Shark Attack (2005) (TV movie)
• Nine Lives (2005)
• Medium (2005–2010)
• All the King's Men (2006)
• The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
• Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007) (TV movie)
• Law & Order: SVU (2007)
• Gilmore Girls (2007)
• Last Chance Harvey (2008)
• Shades of Ray (2008)
• Law & Order: CI (2009)
• Jesse Stone: Thin Ice (2009) (TV movie)
• Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010) (TV movie)
• Miss Nobody (post-production)
• Law & Order (2010)

References

1. Kathy Baker Biography (1950-)
2. Tavis Smiley . Archives.Kathy Baker.September 25, 007|PBS

External links

• Kathy Baker at IMDb
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• Kathy Baker 2003 Interview on Sidewalks Entertainment

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• 1950 births
• Living people
• American film actors
• American stage actors
• American television actors
• American Quakers
• Emmy Award winners
• Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (television) winners
• Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Screen Actors Guild Award winners
• American people of French descent
• People from Midland, Texas
• Actors from Texas
• University of California, Berkeley alumni