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Kathy Baker is a Actor American born on 8 june 1950 at Midland (USA)

Kathy Baker

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Birth name Kathy Whitton Baker
Nationality USA
Birth 8 june 1950 (73 years) at Midland (USA)

Katherine Whitton "Kathy" Baker (born June 8, 1950) is an American stage, film and television actress, known for her leading and supporting performances in film and television.
Baker began her career in theatre and made her screen debut in the 1983 drama film, The Right Stuff. She received the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her performance in Street Smart (1987). Baker also has appeared in over 50 films, including Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Cider House Rules (1999), Cold Mountain (2003), Nine Lives (2005), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Last Chance Harvey (2008), Take Shelter (2011), Saving Mr. Banks (2013) and The Age of Adaline (2015).

On television, Baker starred as Dr. Jill Brock in the CBS drama series, Picket Fences (1992-1996), for which she received three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards. She later received three additional nominations and a Primetime Emmy Award for her performances in Touched by an Angel, Boston Public and Door to Door.

Biography

She lives in Southern California with her husband, director/producer Steven Robman. She has a son and daughter with her first husband, Donald Camillieri.

Best films

Cold Mountain (2003)
(Actress)
Street Smart (1987)
(Actress)

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Filmography of Kathy Baker (58 films)

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Actress

Paterno
Paterno (2017)
, 1h45
Directed by Barry Levinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about children, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia
Actors Al Pacino, Riley Keough, Kathy Baker, Annie Parisse, Greg Grunberg, Peter Jacobson
Roles Sue Paterno
Rating64% 3.2470853.2470853.2470853.2470853.247085
L'histoire de Joe Paterno, le légendaire entraîneur de football américain des Nittany Lions de Penn State, qui, en 2011, est soupçonné d'avoir protégé l'ancien entraîneur-adjoint Jerry Sandusky, accusé d'attouchements sexuels et de viols sur des garçons mineurs pendant une quinzaine d'années, dans le but de protéger la réputation de l'institution au détriment des victimes.
The Ballad of Lefty Brown, 1h51
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Bill Pullman, Kathy Baker, Jim Caviezel, Tommy Flanagan, Peter Fonda, Michael Spears
Roles Laura Johnson
Rating62% 3.149233.149233.149233.149233.14923
Lors que son vieil ami Edward Johnson, élu sénateur, est assassiné par un voleur de chevaux, le cowboy Lefty Brown cherche à assouvir sa vengeance. Pour retrouver et tuer les coupables, il voyage dans les plaines désolées du Montana en compagnie d'un jeune franc-tireur, Jeremiah, et d'un marshall alcoolique, Tom Harrah. Alors qu'ils recherchent les commanditaires du crime, Brown est accusé du meurtre de son vieux compagnon. Seul contre tous, Brown est déterminé à prouver son innocence et à exposer les véritables assassins, des politiciens corrompus.
Sister Cities
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Stana Katic, Jess Weixler, Michelle Trachtenberg, Troian Bellisario, Jacki Weaver, Alfred Molina
Roles Janis
Rating65% 3.297933.297933.297933.297933.29793
Four estranged sisters - as different as the cities they were named after - reunite to mourn what they believe is the suicide of their mother.
The Age of Adaline, 1h52
Directed by Lee Toland Krieger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Blake Lively Reynolds, Angela Lansbury, Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford, Amanda Crew, Anthony Ingruber
Roles Kathy Jones
Rating72% 3.604113.604113.604113.604113.60411
Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively) is seen purchasing fake IDs at an apartment in San Francisco. Later that day, at work, she opens a film reel and the narrator explains her life, including her death in a car accident when she swerved into a ravine and died in the frigid water. A lightning strike revived her. As her daughter Flemming (Ellen Burstyn) grows older, it becomes apparent that Adaline is not aging. One day she is pulled over by a police officer, who takes away her ID as it says she is in her mid-40s.
Boulevard
Boulevard (2015)
, 1h28
Directed by Dito Montiel
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Robin Williams, Bob Odenkirk, Kathy Baker, Roberto Aguire, Giles Matthey, J. Karen Thomas
Roles Joy
Rating57% 2.898912.898912.898912.898912.89891
Nolan Mack (Williams) has worked at the same bank for almost 26 years in a life of monotony. He and his wife Joy (Baker) have embraced their marriage as a convenient distraction from facing reality. However one day, what starts as an aimless drive down an unfamiliar street turns into a life-altering decision for Nolan. When he meets a troubled young man named Leo (Aguire) on his drive home, Nolan finds himself breaking from the confines of his old life and coming to terms with who he really is.
Sister Cities
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jacki Weaver, Jess Weixler, Stana Katic, Michelle Trachtenberg, Troian Bellisario, Alfred Molina
Roles Janis
Rating65% 3.297933.297933.297933.297933.29793
Quatre sœurs s'étant perdues de vue se réunissent après le suicide présumé de leur mère.
Return to Zero, 1h44
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Minnie Driver, Paul Adelstein, Alfred Molina, Connie Nielsen, Andrea Anders, Kathy Baker
Roles Kathleen Callaghan
Rating63% 3.165963.165963.165963.165963.16596
Return to Zero is based on a true story, where a successful couple named Aaron and Maggie are expecting their first child to come, but their life gets devastated as they find that their child is dead in mother's womb. The film is based on the experiences of its writer, Sean Hanish, and his wife. Driver and Adelstein co-wrote and performed the film's title song.
Saving Mr. Banks, 2h5
Directed by John Lee Hancock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about films, Films about writers, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Mise en scène d'un scénariste, Children's films
Actors Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Ruth Wilson
Roles Tommie
Rating74% 3.7480753.7480753.7480753.7480753.748075
In 1961, the financially strapped author Pamela "P. L." Travers reluctantly travels from her home in London to Los Angeles to work with Walt Disney at the urging of her agent, Diarmuid Russell. Disney has pursued the film rights to her Mary Poppins stories for twenty years, having promised his daughters that he would produce a film based on them. Travers has steadfastly resisted Disney's efforts because she fears what he would do to her character. However, she has not written anything in a while and her book royalties have dwindled to nothing, so she risks losing her house. Still, Russell has to remind her that Disney has agreed to two major stipulations - no animation and unprecedented script approval - before she agrees to go.
The Trials of Cate McCall, 1h29
Directed by Karen Moncrieff
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Kate Beckinsale, David Lyons, James Cromwell, Nick Nolte, Clancy Brown, Mark Pellegrino
Roles Therapist
Rating62% 3.102143.102143.102143.102143.10214
Cate McCall (Kate Beckinsale) is an alcoholic lawyer who is in recovery, on probation, and estranged from her family. In order to regain custody of her young daughter and be reinstated to the bar, this former hotshot lawyer accepts a pro bono appeal of a woman, Lacey, who has been convicted of murder. Aided by her assistant, Cate pulls out all stops to prove Lacey's innocence, as well as work on her own alcohol and work addictions. Cate does not move past her work addiction, neglecting arranged time with her daughter while she successfully gets Lacey's conviction overturned. When Cate finds out that Lacey is guilty, she starts drinking again, further neglecting her daughter. Cate returns to her original, high profile law firm, and purposefully torpedoes her own client's case in the middle of a trial. Cate then takes multiple illegal actions to put Lacey back in prison. Cate gives evidence to the prosecutor that can convict Lacey, then conspires with the prosecutor, with the two of them agreeing to keep it a secret so that she won't be disbarred, which would deny him the ability to use the evidence that he should not have, stating "if you have me disbarred, you can't take credit for my idea". Cate, with the full knowledge of the prosecutor that she is working illegally against her client, does not recuse herself from Lacey's trial – though she does blackmail the original judge, who previously ruled in Lacey's favour, to recuse himself. The prosecutor, exercising prosecuterial misconduct, does not recuse himself from the case either. Cate's overt acts of fraud, conspiracy, blackmail and misconduct enable her to get Lacey re-convicted. Cate's reward for her illegal actions is to be granted shared custody of her daughter.
Big Miracle, 1h45
Directed by Ken Kwapis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Cétacé, Political films, Mise en scène d'un cétacé
Actors Drew Barrymore, Kristen Bell, John Krasinski, Vinessa Shaw, Stephen Root, Ted Danson
Roles Ruth McGraw
Rating65% 3.2513253.2513253.2513253.2513253.251325
In small town Alaska, Adam Carlson a news reporter recruits his ex-girlfriend Rachel – a Greenpeace volunteer – on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. Adam names the whales Fred, Wilma, and the infant Bamm-Bamm.
Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt, 1h27
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Gloria Reuben, Stephen McHattie, William Sadler
Roles Rose Gammon
Rating70% 3.546133.546133.546133.546133.54613
Jesse Stone still misses the Paradise, Massachusetts police chief position, which he lost because the current town council president, Carter Hansen (Jeremy Akerman), wanted his son-in-law, William Butler (Jeff Geddis), to have the job. A suspicious police cruiser explosion kills chief Butler and officer DeAngelo (Vito Rezza). Curiously, the former town council president, Hastings "Hasty" Hathaway (Saul Rubinek), appeared to know about the incident before the current town council president was officially notified. Jesse is reinstated as "temp chief" by Hansen and uncovers apparent (but unproved) police corruption involving Butler. Jesse discovers a possible clue: the characters "2AH10" written on the April 24 page of Butler's desk calendar.
Machine Gun Preacher, 2h9
Directed by Marc Forster
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Biography, Action, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about religion
Actors Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Kathy Baker, Madeline Carroll, Souleymane Sy Savane
Roles Daisy
Rating67% 3.350153.350153.350153.350153.35015
Although the film centers on Childers, it starts off with a scene in South Sudan, where the LRA are attacking a village. This opening scene is placed into context later in the film. Childers was an alcoholic drug-using biker from Pennsylvania. On his release from prison, he finds that his wife has given up her job as a stripper, because she has since become a Christian. Eventually, after he almost kills a vagrant the night before, his wife persuades him to go to church with her, where he is eventually converted.
Take Shelter, 2h
Directed by Jeff Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films, Personne sourde ou muette
Actors Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Katy Mixon, Shea Whigham, Kathy Baker, Ray McKinnon
Roles Sarah
Rating72% 3.647933.647933.647933.647933.64793
In Lagrange, Ohio, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) has apocalyptic dreams, and visual and auditory hallucinations, of rain "like motor oil", swarms of menacing black birds, and being harmed by people close to him; but, he hides all of this from his wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain), and their deaf daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart). He instead channels his anxieties into a compulsive obsession to build a storm shelter in his backyard; however, his increasingly strange behavior -- including a tendency to cut ties with anyone in his life that has harmed him only in his dreams -- strains his relationship with his family, friends, employer, and the close-knit town. Curtis grudgingly sees a counselor at a free clinic, with whom he talks about his family's psychological history (his mother (Kathy Baker) suffers from paranoid schizophrenia that surfaced in her at about the same age that Curtis is now).
Good Day for It
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Robert Patrick, Hal Holbrook, Samantha Mathis, Mika Sue Boorem, Lance Henriksen, Christian Kane
Roles Rose Carter
Rating55% 2.7544852.7544852.7544852.7544852.754485
Un homme forcé de quitter sa femme et sa fille il y a des années, est de retour pour régler ses comptes et réunir sa famille. C’est une question d’honneur...
Seven Days in Utopia, 1h38
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Golf films
Actors Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, Melissa Leo, Deborah Ann Woll, Brian Geraghty, Jerry Ferrara
Roles Mabel
Rating60% 3.047333.047333.047333.047333.04733
Après un début désastreux sur le circuit pro, un jeune golfeur se retrouve bloqué à Utopia, Texas. Il est accueilli par un propriétaire de ranch excentrique...