KATHY BAKER
Name: Katherine Whitton Baker
Born: 8 June 1950 Midland, Texas, United States
Katherine Whitton Baker (born June 8, 1950) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning
American character actress.
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 lives in southern California and has a son named Lucca.
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 would win 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.
Name: Katherine Whitton Baker
Born: 8 June 1950 Midland, Texas, United States
Katherine Whitton Baker (born June 8, 1950) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning
American character actress.
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 lives in southern California and has a son named Lucca.
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 would win 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.