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Baker at the 45th Emmy Awards, September 1993 |
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Katherine Whitton Baker
June 8, 1950 (1950-06-08) (age 58)
Midland, Texas, United States |
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Katherine Whitton "Kathy" Baker (born June 8, 1950) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning American character actress.
Biography
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.
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.
Filmography
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