Simon Baker
Acting
Born 1969-07-30
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
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Simon Baker (born July 30, 1969) is an Australian actor and director. In his television acting career, he is best known for his lead role in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane and as Nicholas Fallin in The Guardian.
In his film acting career, he is best known for the lead role of Riley Denbo in Land of the Dead and Christian Thompson in the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, based on the 2003 novel of the same name.
Simon Baker was born to a high school English teacher, Elizabeth Labberton, and a groundskeeper/mechanic, Barry Baker, on 30 July 1969, in Launceston, Tasmania. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. His parents divorced while he was still young. His mother later married Tom Denny, a butcher. Simon Baker also has a sister, currently a doctor in Australia, and three younger half brothers. By 1972, the family had moved from Launceston to Ballina, New South Wales, where Baker's parents hoped to secure better paying jobs. In 1986, he graduated from Ballina High School as Simon Baker-Denny, after completing his primary school education at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School, also in Ballina.
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Filmography
Acting
45 credits
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Late Show with David Letterman
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Conan
The View
The Devil Wears Prada
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Scarpetta
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
E Street
Heartbreak High
L.A. Confidential
Margin Call
Roar
The Ring Two
Boy Swallows Universe
Red Planet
Land of the Dead
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Sex and Death 101
Most Wanted
Something New
Sweat
I Give It a Year
Ride with the Devil
Smith
The Killer Inside Me
High Ground
The Lodger
Here and Now
Not Forgotten
Judas Kiss
The Affair of the Necklace
Book of Love
Limbo
Women in Trouble
Sunset Strip
Live from Studio Five
Secret Men's Business
Restaurant
Love from Ground Zero
Going Vertical: The Short Board Revolution
Which Way to the War
Directing
3 credits
Producing
2 credits
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