Kathy Baker

Kathy Baker won three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actor’s Guild Award for her work on the CBS television series Picket Fences. Baker also received a 2003 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in the TNT feature Door To Door, which garnered multiple Emmy Awards and an AFI Creative Ensemble Award. She was also nominated for back-to-back Emmys for guest performances on Touched by an Angel and Boston Public.

Prior to The Jane Austen Book Club, Baker’s feature credits include the remake of All The King’s Men directed by Steven Zaillian; the independent feature Nine Lives directed by Rodrigo Garcia; the critically-acclaimed Cold Mountain; 13 Going on 30; Fathers and Sons; Assassination Tango; The Glass House; the Academy Award-winning film The Cider House Rules (Screen Actor’s Guild Nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Theatrical Motion Picture); Inventing the Abbotts; To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday; Mad Dog and Glory; Jennifer Eight; Article 99; Edward Scissorhands; Street Smart (National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actress Award); Clean and Sober; Jacknife; Dad; Mister Frost; A Little Inside; and The Right Stuff in which Baker made her film debut.

Baker completed a pilot for CBS called Babylon Fields, cowritten and directed by Michael Cuesta and also starring Ray Stevenson and Amber Tamblyn. Baker’s other television credits include a recent guest arc on Nip/Tuck; a series regular role on Boston Public; Picking Up, Dropping Off, directed by her husband Steven Robman; Spike Lee’s Showtime feature Sucker Free City; Sanctuary; Ten
Tiny Love Stories; Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her; Showtime’s Ratz; the CBS mini-series Shake, Rattle & Roll: An American Love Story; the TNT series Bull; Lush Life; Not in This Town; the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie A Season For Miracles; and The Image.

A veteran of the stage, Baker originated the role of ‘May’ in Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love,” and at the playwright’s request, took the part to New York along with co-star Ed Harris. The move resulted in a prestigious Obie Award for Baker. During the following year, Baker continued to work on other successful stage productions such as “Desire Under the Elms” and “Aunt Dan and Lemon.” She returned to the stage in 2006 in a South Coast Repertory production of the Tracy Letts play “A Man From Nebraska” which was directed by William Friedkin. Baker resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.

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