Carroll Baker
Acting
Born 1931-05-28
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
107 credits
Golden Globe Awards 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year 1
Awards
Nominated for 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 nominated
- 1957 Best Actress Nominated Baby Doll
Golden Globe Awards 1 won
- — Golden Globe Awards Won
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- 1960 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year 1 won
- 1957 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Won
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Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is a former American actress who has enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and, particularly in the 1960s, as a movie sex symbol. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film Baby Doll in 1956. In the mid-1960s, as a contract player for Paramount Pictures, Baker became a sex symbol after appearing as a hedonistic widow in The Carpetbaggers (1964). The film's producer, Joseph E. Levine, cast her in Sylvia before giving her the role of Jean Harlow in the biopic Harlow (1965). Despite significant prepublicity, Harlow was a critical failure, and Baker relocated to Italy in 1966 amid a legal dispute over her contract with Paramount and Levine's overseeing of her career. In Europe, she spent the next 10 years starring in hard-edged giallo and horror films, including Romolo Guerrieri's The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968), a series of four films with Umberto Lenzi beginning with Orgasmo (1969) and ending with Knife of Ice (1972), and Corrado Farina's Baba Yaga (1973). Baker appeared in supporting roles in several acclaimed dramas in the 1980s, including the drama Star 80 (1983) as the mother of murder victim Dorothy Stratten, and the racial drama Native Son (1986), based on the novel by Richard Wright. Through the 1990s Baker had guest roles in several television series, such as Murder, She Wrote; L.A. Law, and Roswell. She formally retired from acting in 2003.
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Filmography
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Acting
59 credits
Chicago Hope
The Mike Douglas Show
Murder, She Wrote
The Merv Griffin Show
L.A. Law
American Playhouse
What's My Line?
Tales from the Crypt
Roswell
The Oscars
The Game
Thriller
Cinépanorama
How the West Was Won
Giant
The Lyon's Den
The Big Country
W. Somerset Maugham
Kindergarten Cop
The Private Lesson
Grand
The Greatest Story Ever Told
P.S. I Luv U
Cheyenne Autumn
Star 80
Cyclone
Bad
Sharing Time
Ironweed
The Watcher in the Woods
Hollywood Uncensored
Baby Doll
Valentina... The Virgin Wife
Heart of the Festival
Captain Apache
North Shore Fish
The Carpetbaggers
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
The Sweet Body of Deborah
Blonde Fist
Baba Yaga
But Not for Me
Easy to Love
So Sweet... So Perverse
Paranoia
Armchair Theatre
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Red Monarch
The Miracle
Shattered Dreams
A Quiet Place to Kill
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Judgment Day: The John List Story
Mister Moses
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Station Six-Sahara
Something Wild
Lionpower from MGM
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