Kathy Baker

For other people named Catherine Baker, see Catherine Baker (disambiguation).

Kathy Baker
Baker at the 45th Emmy Awards, September 1993
Born	Katherine Whitton Baker June 8, 1950 (1950-06-08) Midland, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1983–present
Spouse	Donald Camillieri (m. 1985–1999) «start: (1985)–end+1: (2000)»"Marriage: Donald Camillieri to Kathy Baker" Location: (linkback://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Baker) Steven Robman (m. 2003) «start: (2003)»"Marriage: Steven Robman to Kathy Baker" Location: (linkback://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Baker)

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

Career

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 All the King's Men (2006) and The Jane Austen Book Club (2007).

She has appeared in numerous films including Edward Scissorhands(Joyce Monroe), 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 later re-teamed with Kelley, appearing in Boston Public as a teacher named Meredith Peters. Baker 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 had a recurring role in Medium as Allison DuBois's mother-in-law, and another one in Tom Selleck's periodic Jesse Stone crime dramas as Rose, a small-town police officer.

Personal life

Baker at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

Baker was born in Midland, Texas, and raised a Quaker in New Mexico, the daughter of John Seawand Baker, a geologist and educator and his French-born wife, Helene Andree (née Whitton). She studied acting at the California Institute of the Arts in the early 1970s She later earned a B.A. degree in French in 1977 from UC Berkeley. She 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)
• Lush Life (1993) (TV movie)
• 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 Dad (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)
• Monk (TV Series) (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)
• Unstable (2009) (TV movie)
• Jesse Stone: Thin Ice (2009) (TV movie)
• Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010) (TV movie)
• Miss Nobody (post-production)
• Law & Order (2010)
• Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost (2011) (TV movie)
• Take Shelter (2011)
• Against the Wall (2011)

External links

• Kathy Baker at the Internet Movie Database
• Kathy Baker at AllRovi
• Kathy Baker 2003 Interview on Sidewalks Entertainment