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Kathy Baker: Biography

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Birth Name: Katherine Whitton Baker
Birth Place: Midland, TX
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/08/1950, Gemini
Profession: Actor

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Kathy Baker: TV Guide News

Episode Recap: Burn Baby Burn II | Medium | 3/18/2008
There’s only one thing worse than the sound of nails on a blackboard - the dentist drill. That has got to be one of the worse sounds in the entire universe. And we were all lucky enough to hear it in the opening sequence of Medium.For the second half of a two-part arch, this was a rather lackluster Medium and a let down from the excitement of last week’s episode. I knew last week that Graham hadn’t killed his wife. So why drag it out here? Besides, aren’t most crimes “all about the Benjamins”? Once you knew there was a large insurance policy, (and really, how much is the monthly payment on $7 million?), you had to know that it went farther than the husband.“Now your mouth is ready for anything,” the dentist quipped before pummeling poor Sally in her newly designed mouth. Tell me something, is this show getting more violent? Or has it always been this way and I just never noticed? It also seems that it is terribly violent towards women. I... read more
Episode Recap: Burn Baby Burn | Medium | 3/11/2008
The folks over at Medium have done it again with the knock-out opening. It was a cheery choice of music playing as Ariel watched her classmate, Owen, wave good-bye to his mother. The mother is none other than Journeyman’s, Gretchen Egolf. It’s good to see she’s working even if her show is not slated to come back next fall. (Sadness.) But it was hard to watch her pour gasoline all over herself and then light the match. And then Ariel woke up. I would be torn apart if I knew my daughter, my 15-year old daughter, no less, was having these kinds of dreams. It would be heartbreaking to know what she was going through, and knowing there was nothing you could do about it. On a happier note, this episode had a little bit of everything and so many storylines, I’m not sure I caught everything. It was great to see Bruce Gray return as Joe’s dad, and as usual he was trying to warn Allison about something. First she dreamed of him at the driving range with Joe... read more
Movie News: Naomi Watts Is for The Birds, and More | Today's News: Our Take | 10/19/2007
Naomi Watts will star in a big-screen reimagining of the Daphne du Maurier short story that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. Martin Campbell is in talks to direct, and Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes shingle will produce.... Also per Variety, Ricky Bobby hottie Leslie Bibb is Miss Nobody in an indie comedy about a mild-mannered secretary who learns she has a knack for knocking people off. Adam Goldberg, Missy Pyle and Kathy Baker will also star.... Simon Baker has the lead role as a bank manager haunted by the death of his daughter in the psychological thriller Not Forgotten. read more
Death Becomes Kumar's Harold, More Casting News | Today's News: Our Take | 8/7/2007
John Cho will guest-star as a private-school principal who squares off with Eddie Kaye Thomas' public school veep in three episodes of Fox's 'Til Death this coming season. With Kal Penn now on House, both Harold and Kumar should have plenty of cash for future White Castle runs. Also per the Hollywood Reporter, Jessalyn Gilsig, aka the mom of Heroes' Claire, has joined the cast of NBC's Backyards & Bullets pilot, playing Mathew St. Patrick's wife.... Camryn Manheim (Ghost Whisperer), Leslie Hope (24) and Kathy Baker (Picket Fences) are all on board for Jesse Stone: Thin Ice, the fifth installment in CBS' hit TV-movie franchise. read more
Fall 2007: Kathy Baker Enters Killer Fields | Today's News: Our Take | 3/19/2007
Who's doing what this pilot season, says the Reporter and Variety:• Kathy Baker (Picket Fences) is Amber Tamblyn's mother in CBS' Babylon Fields, where the two of them must again contend with the resurrected abusive husband/father whom they killed with an ax. Awk.Ward.• Get-ready-to-feel-old alert: Kelly Rutherford plays mom to the lead girl (Blake Lively) in the CW's Gossip Girl. Also on board for the pilot is Florencia Lozano (One Life to Live).• Jaime Ray Newman (Veronica Mars) has landed the lead in the CW's I Am Paige Armstrong, playing a disenfranchised congressional aide who decides to run against her boss.• Michael Arden and Ron McLarty have joined Amy Sherman-Palladino's The Return of Jezebel James.• Victoria Pratt (Day Break) has joined ABC's Dirty Sexy Money.• Kevin Dunn (The Path to 9/11) is amnesiac Christina Applegate's dad in ABC's Sam I Am. read more

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Kathy Baker: Photos

Medium, Kathy Baker, Jake Weber courtesy Danny Feld/NBC

Medium, Kathy Baker courtesy Danny Feld/NBC

Jesse Stone Sea Change, Kathy Baker, Tom Selleck courtesy Chris Reardon/CBS

Gilmore Girls, Lauren Graham, Kathy Baker, Alexis Blede, Kelly Bishop courtesy Bruce Birmelin/The CW

Gilmore Girls, Kathy Baker, Kelly Bishop courtesy Bruce Birmelin/The CW

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Kathy Baker: TV Listings

Kathy Baker: Credits

Title	Year	Type
Jesse Stone: Sea Change (Actor - Rose Gammon)	2007	TV Show Series
The Jane Austen Book Club (Actor - Bernadette)	2007	Movie
All The King's Men (Actor - Mrs. Burden)	2006	Movie
Nine Lives (Actor - Camille)	2005	Movie
Spring Break Shark Attack (Actor - Mary)	2005	TV Show Series